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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.

Are You Your Own Remote Control?

Gain back self-power and become your own masters!

Last week, my friend was very anxious. He was about to be promoted in 4 years’ time and was still not confident he would through. In that stress, I could sense fear, loss of hope and struggle to cope with it. He washed out a couple of times, but was back soon. He smoked twice as many cigarettes he usually smoked on a regular day.

Every time his boss would call, his heart thumped and sank down fearing that his promotion might be at stake. So he would smoke even harder to manage with his anxiety. There was a lot of change in his behavior. He would get angry quickly, burst out on his children without reasons and have regular fights with his wife.

This made me think, was he the person I really know? A promotion changed his behavior and actions to a large extent. He could not control his thoughts, emotions, actions or even the number of puffs he took.

Friends, this is the case with many of us today. Financial pressures and responsibilities of a family, creates a lot of stress in the minds of an individual. One might get sick or go down into depression if not realized and corrected on time.

Studies have shown that people smoke more to relieve their stress. That implies that more stress would cause more smoking which again implies increased expenditure, more diseases due to smoking, and adverse impact on family’s health due to second-hand-smoke thereby leading to increased medical bills. This leads to limited savings and again increases the stress levels due to financial burden and then the cycle continues.

Does more smoking lead to more stress or more stress leads to more smoking?

Can’t the chain be broken? We know the adverse effects of smoking and the stress it causes in the family. Then why can’t we control our own cravings? Why can’t we be determined and be our own masters and control our brain the way we want? Are we so fragile in this most comfortable era that we do not even want to rule ourselves and be driven by a petty and trivial thing called cigarette?

I have often heard smokers say that the cravings are so strong that they cannot manage it. The after effects, the so called “withdrawal symptoms” are so worse that they cannot cope with it. But let me tell that your cravings are not stronger than your thoughts and determination. If you decide tenaciously to be stress free, then you will be and the entire universe will help you.

All you have to do is take back your control from the hands of cigarette and give it to yourself and drive your actions as per your will. I’m sure that all of you can become your own masters and be your own “Remote Control”. Don’t lose it. Because once the control is lost beyond repair, the damage will be severe and irreversible. Life is no video game that can give you multiple lives if you make a mistake and die in the game. So think smartly and act firmly and vigilantly.

How Can I Self-Quit Smoking/Chewing Successfully?

In one of my blogs earlier, I had described how to quit smoking by self; based on the experience and tried method of a friend. This method to self-quit had helped many individuals in Raj’s (my friend) circle to quit without fail. However, it is a time taking process and will require tenacious dedication from you for at least 6 months to see the results. Besides, not everyone would be able to get the same results as Raj had.

Therefore in this blog, I shall introduce to you a wonderful book that will make your quitting easy and simple. It enumerates ABC of quitting both effectively and successfully. The book is titled “Win Over Tobacco Made Easy” authored by Dr. Pawan Gupta, a renowned oncologist, author and social activist with 25+ years of experience and more than 7000 successful surgeries to his name.

Studies have demonstrated that hardly 7% people across the globe have successfully quit by self. In India, the relapse rate is extremely high. Those who have tried to quit have relapsed in the second month of their quitting! Often I hear tobacco users saying that “I have a strong will power and I can quit any time I want.” But if their willpower is really that strong, then why aren’t they able to quit? Why the relapse rate is so high and quit rate so low?

The answer is very simple. Neither do the majority of tobacco users have strong willpower nor does the internet give them the right knowledge to quit by self. Instead of trying and testing multiple methods of quitting and failing every time, it is better to access the right resource and knowledge on quitting effectively. That’s why I recommend this book by Dr. Gupta who has made quitting simpler and manageable.

This book is available in 2 languages – English and Hindi and over a million copies have been sold already to help many tobacco users quit efficiently. Why not then grab your copy today and make life healthier? This book is available on https://www.icancare.org/book-win-over-tobacco-made-easy-60. Order today either for yourself or for your friend/relative/spouse who wants to self-quit or has failed in quitting multiple times (and still unwilling to seek professional help) but is positive about quitting.

I’m sure this book will enlighten you about the steps you must follow while quitting, the do’s and don’ts, what are withdrawal symptoms and how to manage them, how to design a plan of action in quitting, assessing self-health and most importantly it will help you to audit and monitor your own progress of quitting. This will enable you to understand what is going good for you, what is affecting you and how to improvise your action plan to make quitting successful.

In a nutshell this book will tell you “How to Quit” your habit of tobacco. Grab your copy without any delay and add atleast 13 more years of life to yourself by quitting a disease!