Month: February 2020

How to Clean Your Lungs after Quitting Smoking?

Cleanse Your Lungs in a Healthy and Natural Way!

There’s often this common question from most of the quitters of smoking and even the smokers themselves that how can they clean their lungs after smoking. How to remove the tar, how to detoxify the body, how much time will it take to clean the body, will the damage from smoking be undone, can the lungs become fully healthy, etc. are also some of the questions asked commonly by many smokers.

In this blog today, I shall elaborate on the natural ways to clean and detoxify your lungs to ensure that the lungs get back to healthy shape as fast as possible. Lungs are capable of healing themselves. However, adding activities that can aid the cleaning process speeds up the process and prevents further damage. The following practices can be adopted:

  1. Steam Inhalation: Perform steam inhalation for 15-20 mins twice a week (for severe smokers) and once a week for all others. This helps to break the tar in the lungs and remove them from the air bags.
  2. Use Acapella: This is a device to improve oxygenation in the lungs. It expands the constricted air bags in the lungs and helps to absorb more oxygen thereby also improving the lung conditions. It is available on www.icancare.org
  3. Pranayam: Performing 15-20 minutes of pranayam daily also improves the breathing process and helps to improve the lungs’ functioning and strength.
  4. Herbal Tea and Green Tea: Introducing a cup of herbal tea and green tea on alternate days helps in detoxification of the body.
  5. Introduce Anti-inflammatory Diet and Anti-oxidants: Food products like turmeric, green leafy vegetables, cherries, blueberries, pineapple, citrus fruits, sprouts, lentils and beans have anti-inflammatory properties. It will help in preventing inflammation of the lungs and also prevent congestion that causes difficulties in breathing and heaviness in the chest.
  6. Use Respiratory Mask in polluted places and to protect self from passive smoking and other forms of smoke. The polluted air also causes huge damage to the lungs and other vital organs.
  7. Put Some Indoor Plants that helps to improve the quality of air at home and workplace. Some of them includes Aloevera, Areca Palm, Lad Palm and Bamboo.
  8. Avoid too much of caffeine intake in coffee and tea and other products. 2 Cups of tea/coffee should be drank in the entire day as it has medicinal properties.
  9. Introduce a regular sport or favorite form of exercise in your daily routine and make it a habit to do 1 hour of vigorous exercise once every week.
  10. Drink a glass of vegetable juice every morning that should at least have bottle gourd, pudina, ginger, carrot and lemon in it.

These measure when adopted and practiced regularly will help in cleaning your lungs as a faster rate and will also make you healthy at the same time. When the oxygenation in the lungs improves, one feels much more active, fresh and livelier than before. Going out for vacations 3-4 times a year into the wild where there’s serenity and peace all around is also advised. You will notice that you feel very fresh with nature and are rejuvenated to a great extent.

8 Ayurvedic Foods to Reduce Cravings for Tobacco

Ayurveda for Controlling Tobacco Cravings

Since time immemorial, much has been said about the harmful effects of tobacco. Every person who consumes tobacco in any form is aware of the fact that this habit could eventually kill them and yet they continue to use this harmful substance. Tobacco and its additives has carcinogenic properties which lead to a variety of cancers and other ailments. Despite knowing all this, people are unwilling to stop the use of tobacco.

Once the tobacco consumers start experiencing the advanced signs of harms of tobacco use, they start thinking about quitting. The most challenging part is to manage the cravings and urges occurring from not consuming tobacco.

This blog elucidates 8 Ayurvedic foods that can help to manage the urge during the quit process.

1. Herbal Tea

A herbal tea made with equal amounts of jatasmi, brahmi and chamomile reduces the urge to use tobacco.

Mix 1 teaspoon of this blend in a cup of hot water, and drink it sip by sip, to relieve the desire to smoke.

2. Ginger

Ginger has Sulphur compounds which help in reducing tobacco addiction. Soak pieces of ginger in lemon juice, sprinkle black pepper and store it in a container. Whenever you get the urge to use tobacco or smoke, just suck into the pieces of ginger and you will notice the difference. You can also use pieces of dried pineapple and honey to do the trick.

3. Ginseng

This magical root not only reduces cravings but also helps the body to deal withdrawal symptoms like mood swings, irritability and stress.

4. Ajwain

Regularly chewing the seeds of ajwain when you crave for tobacco, will help you do away with tobacco addiction.

5. Cinnamon

Whenever you feel the urge to use tobacco, consume a piece of cinnamon. It will definitely help you deal with the craving.

6. Triphala

Consuming one tablespoon of triphala every night helps in clearing the toxic elements from your body which in turn reduces the craving for tobacco use.

7. Tulsi leaves

Chewing on 2-3 leaves of Holy basil every morning and evening helps reduce the craving for tobacco usage. It also helps cure problems caused by the earlier usage of tobacco.

8. Ashwagandha

Ashwagandha helps the body rid toxins and alleviate anxiety levels. Taking 450 mg to 2 g of ashwagandha powder can relieve you of tobacco addiction.

These foods will help you delay the urge to smoke or chew. When you keep delaying the urges, you are in turn reducing the intake of your tobacco and also detoxifying your body of the toxins thereby making your body healthier and helping you to quit tobacco by reducing your cravings to consume tobacco.

Jeera Water – A Cure to Constipation

Often many people experience constipation and the reasons can be many. It can happen from improper and incorrect diet, dehydration, lack of exercise, travel or other changes in routine and quitting smoking.

Many solutions are available which includes medication, ayurvedic treatment, yoga aasanas, homeopathic treatment, Indian churan and more. In this blog I’m going to enumerate a very easy, simple and quick way to help you with your bowel movements in the morning – having half glass of hot Jeera water daily before sleeping. It has proven effective for many people especially the smokers who are trying to quit smoking and chewing.

Many people have a glass or more of hot water in the morning, some have honey water, some have lemon water etc. to help them in passing motions. This is another way that can be added to routine to help with bowel movements. It has other benefits like it reduced acidity and gas, helps in weight loss and also mitigates the knee pain in many cases. 

Jeera Water – A Quick Way to End Constipation and Acidity!

How to make jeera (cumin) water?

In 1.5 glasses of water add

  • 1 tea spoon of whole jeera (cumin seeds),
  • 1 tea spoon sauf (fennel) and
  • 1/4 tea spoon of ajwain

Steps:

  • Put the entire mixture to boil on high flames
  • Once it starts boiling, lower the flames and let it be on the low flames for 20-25 minutes till it becomes half a glass of water
  • Allow it to cool to an extent you can drink (it should be hot when you drink)
  • Drink before going to bed
  • Ensure that you do not add any sugar, salt or honey to it.

The mixture will taste bland but you need to drink it as is.

This practice will bring you in healthy shape within a week’s time. Those having severe acidity and problems of gas should intake this without fail to mitigate their acidity. It will reduce your acidity medicine intake and bring it to zero. You will not need any medicine to cure your acidity, gas and constipation ever!

It is always better to choose natural methods of healing over medicine for it will make you healthier and boost your immunity at the same time.