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If your stomach is ill, you would be ill and if your stomach is healthy, you would be healthy. The mother of all illness is stomach and health is stomach. Healthy stomach, better personality, ill stomach, deformed personality. These are some of slogans, which express the feelings of many of the famous experienced medical practitioners about the mother of all diseases.

In case of any disease, have natural treatment of stomach with patience and sure you would get better health. Thus, naturopathy is widely based on treatment of stomach. It includes awakening of dormant umbilicus and active it as the main source of health. Stomach related ailments do not allow umbilicus to be active. The different stomach related diseases, which have relationship with almost all the physical and mental problems are five in nature. They have been named as enemy diseases as they are the originating point of most of the diseases. They are 1) Constipation 2) indigestion 3) gastric trouble 4) old dysentery and 5) acidity.

Constipation: The top most among the enemy diseases is constipation. Modern science does not consider it as a disease but different researches of scientists have proved that it is not a common but a very complex disease. It appears to be very common but there is no disease, where it does not play active role. Therefore, constipation is said to be the root cause of all diseases.

The treatment of constipation: Most of the medicines meant to cure constipation are dangerous. They cause immense damage to diaphragm of intestines and other refinery system. Intestines get weaker adversely affecting their peristaltic movement. Even the medicines like paraffin and caster oil are troublesome. It ultimately affects liver, rendering it ineffective. Over-consumption of the medicines causes jaundice and malnutrition of the body. It also causes respiratory related diseases, lungs and neck related diseases. The nature has granted power to every living being so that collected stool passes out normally. But the power continues only when our food habits are in accordance with the nature. We normally take green vegetables and fruits and still are victims of constipation. We eat lot of vegetables but after peeling off. We prepare vegetables in the manner that all its nutritious elements and water gets burnt.  One kg vegetable remains barely quarter kgs, with all nutritious elements washed away. How a person could remain healthy and even a healthier person would get ill. Fruits or even vegetables eaten raw like cucumber, pear, sapota and others are eaten after peeling off. Even when we prepare `roti`, nutritious elements are washed out. We prepare pulses after peeling off. And we eat all this disregarding the fact that it is akin to garbage disposing in our body. The peels of  edibles have the strength to remove constipation. All essential vitamins, dextrin, minerals and salts are present in these peels in adequate quantity. They clean-up toxic organism from the intestines.

The following food and treatment keeps a human being away from constipation and make him healthy:

Food for treatment: Drinking limited quantity of water is also one of the reasons of constipation, after waking-up in morning drink two glass of water, kept in brass pot before going to toilet. In case of dysentery, drink two glass of warm water with lemon juice and two spoons honey along with 15 grams ginger juice. Then take a stroll after 15-20 minutes while cleaning your teeth and if urge of going toilet develops, go immediately. For first two days, eat boiled vegetables, 2 days on fruits and 2 days on juices, with lemon+water+honey combination, taking after every three hours. Drink water in adequate quantity. After restricting yourself to juice, fruits and boiled vegetables, start with one `roti and subzi` along with `salad`. In daily routine take given items in breakfast according to the financial condition of individuals. Take `belgiri`, grapes, guava, mangoes, pear, sapota, tomato, dates and wet raisins and milk. Also take germinated corn, cucumber, gourd and luffa for the treatment of constipation.

Mid-day meal: Prepare 'roti' of little grinded flour (half of hunger) with boiled vegetable, around 350 grams in quantity along with salad, germinated corns and curd. In afternoon, take butter milk or soup or juice of vegetable or fruit. In dinner, around 7 pm take roti, vegetable and salad. Those suffering with obesity and constipation should take only fruits or raw vegetables, germinated corn and cup full milk. Take milk one hour before going to bed. For treatment, keep wet soil for half-an-hour on stomach in the morning, without eating anything. Take hot and cold fomentation on spinal chord, stomach and liver. Then take enema and take hipbath for 15 minutes. Continue the process for five days. Then ignore enema but continue rest of the process. Enema could be against used, if need arises. In afternoon, after three hours of lunch keep stripe of wet soil daily and use wrapping of wet bed sheet, hot-cold hip bath, hot vapors on stomach and cold hip-bath, alternatively. Maintain all precautions during treatment. In asans Janushirasan, Pashimottanasan, Yogmudra, Pakshi Asan, Uttanpadasan, Dhanurasan, Chakrasan, Pavanmuktasan, Shalabhasan, Bhujangasan, Sarwangasan, Halasan, and Matyasan. Proper food habit and yoga could give relief from constipation. In case of an old constipation, take cup-full juice of bitter gourd and amla. The above mentioned natural treatments, proper diet and yoga increase intestines tone, which normalizes pace of peristaitic movement. It also gives permanent treatment to the problem of constipation. In old constipation complaints, veins and nerves of intestines and stomach grow weak and here is the sure-shot to strengthen them. Daily take morning walk for 3-4 kms. Go for toilet, soon after the urge develops. Fix a time for it and essentially go once at the time fixed. Take maximum 15-20 minutes as sitting for more time or undue pressure could cause other problems.

This article is by one the best doctor & person I have across, Dr Nagendra Kumar 'Neeraj' from Yoggram, Haridwar.