Diet and lifestyle have direct impact on your ability to conceive. How? Take in the wrong substances and you weaken your immune system organs and blood flow; which can all create an imbalance in your body that prohibits one of its most important jobs: conceiving and nurturing a baby.
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| Diet And Infertility |
Ayurveda has certain remedies that are very easy to use, with no side effect. The herbs and other items required for these remedies are easily available.
- Aubergine is considered to be very effective in removing female infertility. Cook the aubergines tenderly and eat with buttermilk daily for a month.
- Applications of mudpacks on the abdomen and sexual organs can help reduce sterility.
- Cold water hipbath is also very good for initial infertility.
- Another good remedy is to use Jamun (blackberry) fruit. Jamun leaves taken with honey has shown positive result.
- Winter cherry is another excellent herb remedy for female infertility. The 6 gm of powered herb taken with a cup of milk for a week at night after menstruation gives wonderful result.
- Curd and cottage cheese, sprouted seed, beans and grains are valuable for treatment of infertility. These boost immunity.
- Nuts: Almonds, walnuts and pumpkin seeds
- Dairy: Milk, cream and ghee
- Seafoods: Seaweeds
- Flowers: Roses, saffron, jasmine and flower pollen
- Fruits: Dates, pomegranates and grapes
- Herbs: Organic Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), Shatavart (Asparagus racemosa), Kapikacchu (Mucuna pruriens), Gokshura (Tribulis terrestris) and Bala (Sida cordifolia)
Ayurveda highlights the importance of a balanced diet and provides a simple system of achieving it. According to Ayurveda, all foods can be divided into six basic categories according to taste: Sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astrinsent. Each taste contains a dietary factor that increases proper body function.
Ayurveda recommends that our diets include all six tastes. Preferably, lunch and dinner would both contain all six tastes. Imbalance in the diet can be a major source of imbalance in the body. Each type of food has a different effect on Vata, Pitta and Kapha. Digestion, metabolism and tissue development are affected by food as well. Therefore the same type of diet taken for months or years can lead to significant imbalances in the physiology.
When our diets do not contain all six tastes adequately, it leaves us feeling hungry even after having a large meal. Cravings for certain foods, feeling weak and tired are all due to lack of all the six tastes.
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While the first four of the six tastes identified by Ayurveda - sweet, sour, salty and bitter - are probably recognizable, the last two - pungent and astringent - may not seem familiar. Pungent taste is hot and spicy as found in a chili pepper, while an Astringent taste is dry and light as found in popcorn. To find out more, you can check out Diet And Infertility.
