Author: Ozren Podnar |
5 natural remedies for better digestion |
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Indigestion can cause bloating, pain in the stomach and the bowels, bad mood and lethargy.
By activating the digestive juices you can rekindle the flame in the stomach and stimulate digestion to operate at its full strength.
This will raise your energy level and mood and get you back into action in full swing.
1. Lemon and apple vinegar
Sour taste helps stimulate the production of stomach acid.
This provides an easy boost to the digestive system and prepares it for food with which you start the day.
Squeeze half a lemon into 250 ml of hot or lukewarm water and drink it half an hour before breakfast.
Do this every day to boost the production of digestive juices.
Another sour food promotes good digestion - apple cider vinegar!
Pour one or two fingers of vinegar in 2 dl cup, add water, pour a little lemon and sip this mixture throughout the day.
2. Use fennel
In India, fennel seeds (Latin name Foeniculum vulgare) are often served to improve digestion after meals and for freshening breath.
While nibbling fennel, its seeds release a substance called terpenoid anethole.
It improves bowel peristaltics and stops gastrointestinal spasms.
Seeds have an antispasmodic effect, relieve bloating, facilitate the release of gas and soothe a sick stomach.
Buy fennel seeds in store, briefly fry them or sprinkle them raw on your food.
3. Fermented food
If you have problems with digestion, try consuming fermented vegetables such as sauerkraut.
Fermented food is full of probiotics, which suppress harmful bacteria from the gut.
So it can ease bloating, wind, diarrhea, constipation and other digestive problems.
If you have not eaten this food before, start with low doses.
When you start, introduce into your daily menu a teaspoon of fermented vegetables or consume miso organic soup before meals.
During the first month, gradually increase the dose up to a quarter of a cup.
4. Make your food hotter
The main active ingredient of hot red peppers, capsaicin, helps the human body to better digest food.
It does so by stimulating gastric juices and increasing blood flow to the wall of the stomach lining.
As well as improving digestion, hot peppers have an antidepressant effect, because capsaicin stimulates certain hormonal processes that make you feel good.
Do not be afraid to spice up your food with a little hot pepper, or try your own sweet chili sauce.
Ingredients
- half a cup of apple cider or rice vinegar
- half a teaspoon of stevia powder
- ¼ cup of water
- clove of garlic
- half to one tablespoon of crushed dried chili
- a couple of grains of Himalayan salt
- one tablespoon of cornstarch previously dissolved in three tablespoons of cold water
Preparation
Put all ingredients in a saucepan, gently warm up for ten minutes, add the cornstarch and warm up for another two minutes.
Store in the refrigerator.
Please note that half a tablespoon of chili is enough for most tastes.
The whole spoon is intended for those who really love things spicy.
Do not use chili if you have stomach ulcers or reflux (GERD).
5. Ginger for easier digestion
Spicy ginger has the reputation of an ideal remedy for alleviating nausea.
Only a few know that it is actually a great natural medicine for intestines and stomach.
Ginger relaxes the digestive tract and allows food to pass through it smoothly, without delay.
It promotes better assimilation and absorption of food.
Ayurveda believes that ginger has the ability to eliminate toxins from the digestive tract. It kindles Agni - the digestive fire.
Snack on a piece of fresh ginger before each meal.
Or, make a ginger root tea.
You will need 2.5 cm of raw root. Cook it for 30 min in 300 ml of water. In the end, you may add a bit of stevia or honey.
Fresh ginger root can be purchased at all major stores in the vegetable department.
Chew thoroughly
Often we eat while we talk, read, watch TV or drive, and we are unaware of what we put in our mouths.
In such a situation we swallow food before it is thoroughly chewed.
If you swallow food prematurely, the digestive process is compromised from the start, because we are not exposing carbohydrates to saliva and enzymes that degrade them.
So chew food 15-20 times per bite so the food you eat is minced before swallowing.
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