Saturday 30 April 2011

For Weight loss

Recipe #1:
Ingredients:
Vaamu (Ajwain, Trachyspermum copticum):  100 grams
Patika Bellam (Candy Sugar):  100 grams
Cow’s ghee (Clarified butter):  100 grams
(preferably naatu aavu ghee)
Fry Vamu (Ajwain) and make fine powder and sieve it.  Add candy sugar powder and mix uniformly.  Boil cow’s ghee (clarified butter) to liquid state.  After removing it from the stove, add the above mixture of Vamu (Ajwain) and Candy sugar to the ghee, spoon by spoon, and stir it well.  Let it to cool down.  After it cools down, store it in a glass bottle.  This is also known as AGASTHYA LEHYAM
Usage:  Children ½ spoon; Elders : 1 spoon - 2 to 3 times a day after meals.
Benefits:  Belly will reduce, improves digestion, Gas problems eliminate, old Back Pains are also eliminated.
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Recipe No #2:
Ingredients:
Urad Dal chilka (Pottu minapappu) (Black gram):  1 kg
Coconut water sufficient to soak the dal (black gram).
After soaking grind to batter and prepare Vadiyalu (round balls) and dry them in the sun, and store.
Usage:  Soak 10 vadiyalu (round balls) in milk.  Add sugar candy powder (patikabellam) or jaggery and take them for 40 to 60 days.  Gradually increase it to 20 Vadiyalu.
Precaution: Gents should be away from family life while taking the above recipe.
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Recipe #3:
Ingredients:
Uttareni (Prickly Chaff Flower, Achyranthes aspera) leaves juice:  1 glass
Sesame seeds oil (Nuvvulu noone):  1 glass
Boil the above contents till only oil remains and store in a glass bottle.
Usage: Apply the oil on belly from left-to-right and wherever excess fat prevails.
Benefits: Bad water and bad blood is eliminated and excessive fat will melt down.  It also improves blood circulation.
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Yoga Aasnas for Belly reduction.
  • Uttana padasana
  • Agnisaara Kriya
  • Udyana Bandha
  • Naukasanam
  • Vajrasanam
Stomach cleaning should be done once a month
Stomach cleaning Method 1:
Ingredients:
Ginger juice : 2 spoons
Honey: 2 spoons
Vanta Amudam (Castor oil) : 4 spoons.
Mix the above three constituents and boil thoroughly 3 times (Moodu sarlu pongu vachchevaraku).
Usage: Take it with warm water early in the evening.  Rasam with rice can be taken as food in the afternoon.
Precaution: Avoid going outside as motions (bowel movements) may occur 3 to 4 times.

Stomach cleaning Method 2:
Ingredients:
Aloe vera juice : 2 to 4 spoons
Jeera (Cumin seeds) powder : ¼ spoon (lightly fried)
Turmeric : 1/8 spoon
Pepper powder : little (1/16 spoon) (3 chitikalu)
Usage: Take the above contents together half-an-hour before meals.
Benefits: This will not only clean the stomach, but also sores in andasayam (ovary) and also sores due to cancer.
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Recipe #4:
Ingredients:
Ulava Jaava (horse gram)
Ulavalu (horse gram) : 50 gm
Boil ulavalu (horse gram) in ½ liter of water and prepare Jaava (semi-liquid).  Add little ginger, vamu (Ajwain), jeera (Cumin seeds) powder, pepper powder, saindhava lavanam (rock salt) along with water and boil the contents till thick liquid is formed.
Usage: To be taken daily at 4:00 p.m.
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Recipe #5:
Ingredients:
Belly reduction powder
Take Karakkaya (Chebulic myrobalan), taanikaya (Belleric Myrobalan), usirikaya (indian gooseberry), sonti (dried ginger), pippallu (Balinese pepper), miriyalu (Black Pepper), saindhavalavanam (rock salt) each 100gms.  Fry them separately and make powder.  Mix all contents together and store in a glass bottle.
Usage:
People with Vaata prakruti should take with warm water
People with Ushna prakruti should take with butter milk
People with kapha prakruti should take with honey.
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Recipe #6:
Ingredients:
Prepare ganji (gruel) or upma out of korralu (millet) or yavalu (oats). These are blessed with the quality to keep the body in required size and proportion.
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Food precautions:
  1. Avoid drinking cool water from fridge
  2. Avoid fried items
  3. Avoid taking cold rice, new rice
  4. Drink cow’s milk only
  5. Avoid meat
  6. Avoid breakfast before 10 AM, take juices in the afternoon and light food in the evening.
  7. Eat according to the body’s needs and to the extent of physical work one does.
  8. Avoid sleep during day time and reduce sleep during night.
  9. Reduce rice and wheat as much as possible
  10. Avoid milk products, sugar, jiggery
  11. Exercise morning and evening. 
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Recipe #7:
Ingredients:
Avanune (Mustard oil) – 100 grams
Karpooram (Camphor) – 20 grams
Heat the 100 grams Avanune (mustard oil) on stove.  After heating, remove it from the stove and mix 20 grams of Karpooram (camphor) and stir it thoroughly and close the counter with a lid.  Allow it to cool down until the karpooram (camphor) dissolves into the oil.
Usage:  Apply little oil to stomach and portions where you have excess fat daily two times half-an-hour before bath and massage it smoothly from top to bottom and bottom to top, and left to right and right to left. 
Benefits:  This will reduce excess fat and get you into a good shape. You can apply this oil to the whole body, except on the head.
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Recipe #8:
Ingredients:
Tippateega (Tinospora Cordifolia) powder
Karakkaya (Chebulic myrobalan) beradu (fiber) powder
Usirikaya (Indian Gooseberry) beradu (fiber) powder
Tanikaya (Belleric Myrobalan) beradu (fiber) powder
Usage:  Mix all the four in equal proportions and store in a glass bottle.  Take a teaspoonful of the mixture and mix it to a glass water and boil it till becomes half and filter it.  Allow it to cool, when it is lukewarm, mix two teaspoons of honey to it.  Take this daily in the mornings and evenings. 
Benefits:  This will remove all the excess fat that is hidden in the body. 
Note:  You may experience frequent bowel movements at the beginning, as this will remove all the wastage in the body.
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Recipe #9:
Ingredients:
Old Rice
Usage:  Soak the old rice one full night and dry it the whole next day, then fry it lightly.  Grind it to make ravva (semolina).  Add water that is equal to 14 times of the ravva (semolina) and cook it till it becomes gruel.  Eat this using cooked vegetables.
Benefits:  This will remove all the excess fat in the stomach and gives you flat stomach and also removes excess fat that is hidden in the body. 
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Recipe #10:
Ingredients:
Karakkaya beradu (Chebulic myrobalan fiber) powder
Taanikaya beradu (Belleric Myrobalan fiber) powder
Usirikaya beradu (indian gooseberry fiber) powder
Sonti (dried ginger) powder
Pippallu (Balinese pepper) powder
Miriyalu (Black Pepper) powder
Saindhavalavanam (rock salt) powder
Usage:  Take all the above in equal quantity and store it in a glass bottle.  Mix one teaspoon of the mixture to two teaspoons of sesame oil and drink it daily two times.
Benefits:  Take this daily will remove excess fat from all parts of the body within six months.
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Recipe #11:
Ingredients:
Ulava Guggillu (Horse gram):  
Softly boil ulava guggillu (horsegram).
Usage:  Start with 20 to 25 grams and gradually increase to 50 to 100 grams. Take it in the Mornings and Evenings.  You can season it with onion and chilly pieces also regular seasoning items.
Note:  Drink butter milk and eat barley for reducing heat generated due to the above food.
Benefits: Excess fat in Stomach reduces and excess weight will be reduced. 
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Recipe #12:
Ingredients:
Collect and store rain water before reaching ground in a container other than plastic.
Usage:  Add ¼ teaspoon good turmeric powder to half glass rain water and take early in the morning empty stomach.  Do not take food for one hour.
Benefits:  Good relief from excess weight within 3 to 6 months.
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Recipe #13:
Foods To Be Taken At Night For Weight Reduction:
Ingredients:
Old Rice, Jowar (sorghum grain), old wheat, Moong (Mung beans), ulavalu (horse gram), barley seeds in equal proportion.
Usage:  Soak them overnight, dry them in the morning.  Add little by little quantity in fry pan and fry them.  Later powder the contents and store in a bottle.
Usage:  Prepare chapatti/roti and take them in the nights as food.
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Recipe #14:
Ingredients:
Warm water : 1 glass
Triphala powder : ¼ spoon
(Triphala is an Ayurvedic herbal rasayana formula consisting of equal parts of three myrobalans, taken without seed: Amalaki (Emblica officinalis), Bibhitaki (Terminalia bellirica), and Haritaki (Terminalia chebula)).
Honey : Little
Usage:  Mix the above and take for one week.  During the second week, increase Triphala powder to 1/2 spoon and then increase it to 3/4 spoon in third week and to 1 spoon from fourth week. Take the above composition two times a day for atleast 40 days.
Along with the above, use Angaragam (bath powder) also.
Angaragam:
Mix Karakkaya (Terminalia chebula, Black Myrobalan or Chebulic Myrobalan or Haritaki) powder, Vepa chigullu (tender neem leaves), mango bark powder, pomegranate bark powder and lodduga chekka (lodhra, Symplocos Racemosa ) bark powder equally and store.
Take 3-4 teaspoons or as required and add milk to the powder. Apply the paste to those areas where excess fat prevails.  Can also apply to dark circles, dark regions, spots, etc. Wait for an hour and take bath.
Benefits:  Body fat reduces, and natural beauty increases.
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Recipe #15:
Ingredients:
Nalla tumma Aaku (Black Babul tree leaves)
Karakkaya (Terminalia chebula, Black Myrobalan or Chebulic Myrobalan or Haritaki)
Usage:  Soak nalla tumma aaku in water and make thick paste and make karakkaya powder and then to paste.  Apply paste of nalla tumma aaku to entire body.  After 15 min apply karakkaya paste.  Take bath after drying.
Benefits:  Excess fat reduces and smell of sweating vanishes.

Ayurvedic History

The Ayurveda means the science of life. Medicine apart, various other aspects of life also come within the pure view of Ayurveda. The practice of herbal medicine dates back to the very earliest periods of known history.

There is evidence of herbs having been used in the treatment of diseases and for revitalizing body systems in almost all ancient civilizations-the Indian, the Egyptian, the Chinese and even the Greek and Roman civilizations. Plants were the mainstay of medicine and credited with spiritual and almost supernatural powers of healing . Herbs are used in many different ways. The ultimate objective of their use is that they should interact directly with our body chemistry.

In India, the records indicate, that herbs have been in use for treating diseases since ancient times.

Ayurvedic treatment, knowledge of prakriti (nature) is very important. For e.g., a knowledge of vata prakriti is always likely to get vatika type of diseases and in him diseases of other type don't give much trouble or are easily curable. To prevent the occurrence of diseases, the individual having vata prakriti should always avoid such factors as would aggravate vata and resort to vata-alleviating food, drinks and regime. Food ingredients which are unctuous and hot are likely to suit him most whereas to a pitta prakriti man cold things will be more suitable. Similarly while administering medicines, other things being equal, a pitta prakriti patient is to be given cooling medicine and kapha(cough) prakriti patient is to be given heating medicine having bitterness, dryness, roughness etc.
 

Panditha Elchuri Venkatrao

The ayurvedic remedies given here and written here are taken from a TV show "Ayurveda Jeevana Vignanam" by our renowned Ayurveda Maharshi Pandita Yelchuri Venkat Rao.  He hosts the show himself and educates us with the importance of Ayurveda (Herbs) in our day to day life.  He is a renowned Ayurvedam practitioner.
Maharshi Pandita Yelchuri Venkat Rao is the editor for Andariki Ayurvedam monthly magazine, which has a circulation of more than 1 lakh subcriptions across AP.  These books are also available in any Book Store in your city.  Buy them and prepare the medicine yourself.
Lastly, let us make the world disease-free with home remedies without any side effects.

"Jai Ayurvedam, Jai Jai Ayurvedam"