Coriander seeds and leaves are used for therapeutic purposes and are part of asian culinary since ages. It has many useful health benefits, and you should know it for using it as home remedies.

Some people don’t like coriander at all and this hate can be explained by genetic influence.

Coriander seeds and leaves properties

Coriander rasa or taste, as defined by Ayurveda for each food, is astringent, bitter and light to digest, it is also unctuous and oily and after digestion the taste remain sweet

It has a hot potency and balances the 3 doshas: Vata, Pitta and Kapha

Coriander is diuretic and so will increases the volume of urine

It improves strength of digestion and useful in case of fever.

Added to your meal will give a fresh perfume and useful in malabsorption syndrome and diarrhea.

We use also coriander in case of anorexia. It also helps to relieve bad odor (breath) and tone the cardiac muscle.

In case of excessive thirst, burning or vomiting sensation, it is very useful for you.

In Ayurveda it is also used to manage cough, cold, and asthma,  haemorrhoids or worm infestation.

Fresh coriander is used especially useful in treating Pitta aggravation.

The great advantage of coriander is you can use all part of this plant: seed and leaves.

You can use seed powder, boiling 3-6 grams and have a cold infusion of 10 ml to 30 ml per day, depends on what your doctor or therapist says.

Research

Modern researches have shown that coriander seeds are efficient to control blood sugar and cholesterol level.

Many studies have shown coriander seed’s benefits in controlling blood sugar and cholesterol levels. It is also a very good anti oxidant and and helps resist the accumulation of free radicals in the body. (Look at the studies below at the end of the article)

Home Remedies with coriander

Before, check if you can take those consels according to your therapist or ayurvedic doctor. It all depends on your personal history and if you already have other medical prescriptions.

Coriander to reduce cholesterol,

3 to 5 grams of coriander seed powder can be taken along with half a cup of honey water, once or two times a day. Honey water is prepared by adding a teaspoon of honey to half a cup of water.

Coriander cold drink: natural cleanser and coolant drink

This drink is a very easy to make and useful in case of fever, burning sensation, excessive thirst and other high Pitta conditions.

It also helps to reduce abdominal colic pain due to high Pitta and acidity, excessive sweating of palm and feet. And reduces bleeding during menstruation and hot flahes.

Coriander is one of the best and easy drink to make.

This drink is a natural coolant and detoxing because it cleans the thissue channels and energize the body

1. Take one part of crushed coriander seeds. (for 10 grams)

2. Add six parts of water (60 ml)

3. Keep it covered over one night

4. Next morning, filter it, and mix with a little quantity of natural sugar (coconut sugar, sugar cane…), and  drink it in empty stomach.

But avoid honey because it has a light hot potency.

It can be taken for a period of 6 / 8 weeks.

After taking this, it is better to avoid food for at least 30 minutes.

If you wish to drink your morning tea give a gap of at least 10 minutes.

Fever

The cold infusion of coriander mixed with sugar and taken in morning alleviates even severe burning sensation immediately.

Appetizer and expectorant:

Decoction of coriander and ridged gourd or angled Luffa gourd(Luffa acutangula) and smooth gourd ( Luffa cylindrica) acts as appetizer, expectorant, carminative (relieve flatulence) of Pitta and Vata,.

It is also antipyretic (to prevent or reduce fever), digestive and purgative.

To improve the digestive fire, and suffering from fever can take water processed with 2 parts of coriander and one part of dry ginger.

Decoction of coriander and dry ginger, added with lemon juice and natural sugar is useful for fever in autumn.

For diarrhea

Decoction of Coriander, Country mallow, dry ginger, and stone apple alleviates sudden pain occurring in the abdomen and constipation. This is digestive and an appetizer.

Ghee processed with 4 time of water and coriander paste can be given in diarrhea caused by Pitta and associated with pain. It is also a good appetizer and digestive.

Water processed with coriander and Country mallow should be given to those suffering from thirst burning sensation and diarrhea.

Indigestion

Water processed with coriander and dry ginger alleviates indigestion caused by toxins (ama) and it is diuretic also.

Thirst

Coriander with honey and sugar is useful.

Diabetes

A teaspoon of coriander seeds can be soaked in a cup of water, kept over night. Next day morning, that water can be drunk, before food.

Burning sensation of eyes

Coriander (Coriander sativum) seeds are soaked in water or rose water and instilled to the eyes.

All those counsels are general, in Ayurveda everyone is different and react differently, then check if you can apply all of this recipies for your own constitution with your practionner.

You can also learn ayurveda with me to become your healer and maintqin healthy life.

References

The cholesterol lowering property of coriander seeds (Coriandrum sativum): mechanism of action

Hypolipidemic effect of coriander seeds (Coriandrum sativum): mechanism of action

Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory and Antidiabetic Proprieties of LC-MS/MS Identified Polyphenols from Coriander Seeds

Neuroprotective effects of Coriandrum sativum and its constituent, linalool: A review

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) and its bioactive constituents

Effect of walnut leaf, coriander and pomegranate on blood glucose and histopathology of pancreas of alloxan induced diabetic rats

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.): a potential source of high-value components for functional foods and nutraceuticals–a review

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum): A promising functional food toward the well-being

Now we have to consider still another level of self-healing by cleansing and purification. Learn home remedies to remove your toxins.

What if you haven’t taken the opportunity to develop awareness, to modify the cause, or to apply opposite qualities to restore balance, and you have begun to get sick? What to do now?

… Efficient ayurvedic home remedies…

The principle of opposites is almost universally valid and helpful at any stage of disease. This principle is to cure with opposites qualities.

But once disease has begun to develop, it will not be sufficient. At this stage it becomes necessary to use techniques for cleansing and purifying your body of excess doshas and accumulated toxins.

The creation of Ama: toxins

As we have seen, when the doshas are aggravated because of poor diet, unhealthy lifestyle, negative emotions, or other factors, they first affect agni (the body’s biological fire, which governs digestion and assimilation).

When agni becomes weakened or disturbed, food is not properly digested. The undigested, unabsorbed food particles accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract and turn into the toxic, sticky substance called ama. In the third (“spread”) stage of the disease process, ama clogs the intestines, overflows through other bodily channels such as the blood vessels, and infiltrates the bodily tissues, causing disease.

Ama is thus the root cause of disease. The presence of ama in the system can be felt as fatigue, or a feeling of heaviness. It may induce constipation, indigestion, gas, and diarrhea, or it may generate bad breath, a bad taste in the mouth, stiffness in the body, or mental confusion... Ama can most easily be detected as a thick coating on the tongue.

The roots of diseases : know the roots for healing and purification

According to Ayurveda, disease is actually a crisis of ama, in which the body seeks to eliminate the accumulated toxicity. Thus the key to prevention of disease, once ama has begun to build up, is to help the body eliminate the toxins.

To remove ama from the system, Ayurveda employs many internal cleansing programs.

One of these, most widely known in the West, is a five-procedure program known as panchakarma (“five actions”). The panchakarma programs used at Ayurvedic treatment centers include prepurification methods to prepare the body to let go of the toxins, followed by the purification methods themselves.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Panchakarma is a special, powerful procedure requiring guidance from a properly trained medical staff, not just someone with a modest amount of ayurvedic training. It is performed individually for each person, with his or her specific constitution and medical condition in mind, and it requires close observation and supervision at every stage, including post-panchakarma support.

Both for periodic prevention (to reverse any buildup of ama) and to deal with a specific health problem, panchakarma is a highly recommended art of cleansing and detoxification. If you are not near a center where panchakarma is available under the supervision of a trained Ayurvedic physician, you can do an effective purification program at home. An efficient home remedies by yourself.

Should You Use Ghee?

The use of ghee for internal oleation is recommended for most people. It’s an excellent home remedies for many imbalances. However, individuals with high blood levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, and sugar should not use it. So before you begin your home treatment, see a doctor and have your blood tested for these factors.

If they are within the normal range, there is no problem. If they are high, then instead of ghee use flaxseed oil, which provides effective oleation and also contains fatty acids, which help to reduce cholesterol levels.

Take 2 tablespoons of the flaxseed oil three times a day for three days, fifteen minutes before eating.

A Simple Home remedies for purification

Begin your home detoxification program with internal oleation with ghee. See here how to make ghee.

For three days in a row, take about 57g of warmed, liquefied ghee early in the morning.

If you are a vata person, take the ghee with a pinch of rock salt.

And for a pitta individual, take the 57 g of plain ghee.

Kapha individual should add a pinch of trikatu (a mixture of equal amounts of ginger, black pepper, and pippali, or Indian long pepper) to the ghee.

The ghee provides internal oleation and lubrication, which is necessary so that the ama or toxins begin to come back from the deep tissue to the gastrointestinal tract for elimination.

After your three days of internal oleation

Another home remedies : It is time for external oleation.

For the next five to seven days, apply 200 to 230gr of warmed (not hot!) oil to your body from head to toe, rubbing it in well.

The best oil for vata types is sesame, which is heavy and warming; pittas should use sunflower oil, which is less heating; kaphas do best with corn oil. You can do this oil massage for fifteen to twenty minutes.

After the oil is well rubbed in and absorbed (wait minimum 20 minutes before shower), take a hot bath or shower. Then wash with some Ayurvedic herbal soap, such as neem. Let some of the oil remain on your skin.

The ancient Ayurvedic textbooks recommend rubbing some chickpea flour over the skin to absorb and help remove the oil. This works very well to remove the oil, but it is more suited to a culture in which individuals bathe outdoors.

Today, if you use chickpea flour, be aware that oil, flour, and hot water combine into a formidable mass that can easily clog your plumbing. Flushing the drain with extra hot water immediately following your bath can help.

Use of triphala

During your home purification, every night at least one hour after supper take ½ to 1 teaspoon of triphala. Add about half a cup of boiling water to the triphala powder, and let it steep ten minutes or until it has cooled down, then drink it.

Along with its many healing and nourishing properties, triphala is a mild but effective laxative. It will provide the benefits of a more potent virechana or purgative treatment, but more gently and over a longer span of time. Triphala is safe and can be effectively used for months at a time.

Basti: another best home remedy to clean and purify

This procedure was well-known by our past generations and useful if you want to complete your home panchakarma treatment. On the last three days perform this ayurvedic medicated enema, or basti, after your hot bath or shower.

Use dashamoola tea for the enema (or basti).

Boil 1 tablespoon of the herbal compound dashamoola in 1,8 L of water for five minutes to make a tea. Cool it, strain it, and use the liquid as an enema. (How to to it here).

Retain the liquid as long as you comfortably can. And don’t worry if little or no liquid comes out.

For certain individuals, particularly vata types, the colon may be so dry and dehydrated that the liquid may all be absorbed. This is not harmful in any way.

This snchana (oleation both internal and external with ghee and oil), swedana (sweating using a hot shower or hot bath), and virechana (purgation) using triphala, followed by basti using dashamoola tea, constitute an effective panchakarma that you can easily do on your own at home.

During this entire time it is important to get plenty of rest, and to observe a light diet.

From day four to day eight, eat only kitchari (equal amounts of basmati rice and mung dal cooked with cumin, mustard seed, and coriander, with about 2 teaspoons of ghee added to it). Kitchari is a wholesome, nourishing, balanced food that is an excellent protein combination. It is easy to digest and good for all three doshas, and it is also cleansing.

Be your own healer

Do this simple home remedies for purification and cleansing, preferably at the junction between seasons. Take responsibility for your own healing.

You will start to experience a great change in your thinking and in your feelings, and you will really fall in love with your life!

More tips for your health here.

References

Ayurveda and Panchakarma: Measuring the Effects of a Holistic Health Intervention – PMC (nih.gov)

Effect of Vasantic Vaman and other Panchakarma procedures on disorders of various systems – PubMed (nih.gov)

Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients With Skin Disorders Undergoing Ayurvedic Panchakarma (Biopurification) as Management – PubMed (nih.gov)

Utilization of Ayurveda in health care: an approach for prevention, health promotion, and treatment of disease. Part 1–Ayurveda, the science of life – PubMed (nih.gov)

Utilization of Ayurveda in health care: an approach for prevention, health promotion, and treatment of disease. Part 2–Ayurveda in primary health care – PubMed (nih.gov)

Ayurvedic management of female infertility due to tubal blockage – PubMed (nih.gov)

This article aims to share with you the fundamentals on rheumatisms. And I have been able to change in my dietary and behavioral lifestyle. I have also calm and soothe my rheumatism. They have practically disappeared in my lower back since I suffer of spondylolisthesis.

The origin of rheumatism

You have to be patient and persistent with dietary change. It takes time for your body to detoxify, especially if you haven’t done it for years.

I’ll explain a little bit what’s going on. You need to understand that inflammatory and autoimmune diseases start in the small intestine. It’s something very important because when you understand that your diet plays a huge role in your inflammatory diseases. It also play a role in your healing potential. I apply and it works for me.

Rheumatism co-factors

In fact we have what we call cofactors in our food

The co-factors are elements such as lactose or the consumption of cereals which will accentuate this inflammatory sensitivity. It may be a genetic sensitivity given by our mother, our father. It is important you draw up a kind of genealogical tree of inflammatory diseases on your mother’s and your father’s side. You will know if you have a more or less favorable genetic ground, bequeathed in inheritance. And then with which you will develop inflammatory diseases.

If I take my case, that’s exactly what happens. For example in my family we have a lot of cases of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, psoriasis, eczema. Besides, my brother developed it so I know there is a genetic background in my family that is conducive to developing inflammatory diseases.

I myself developed beyond rheumatism, osteoarthritis at the level of L4 / L5 linked to my spondylolisthesis. It’s just to say that sometimes and we have a genetic ground that will be sensitizing. We cannot fight against but reduce your cofactors.

This will not necessarily cure you, because we cannot change our genes. But in any case influence them and avoid constantly entering an inflammatory state and reproducing dietary errors that will degrade your condition.

Because as soon as you actually stop this diet, your inflammatory state will come back. You can do several tests on this, you will quickly realize it.

For example, I stopped eating dairy products. I will explain you later what I stopped eating. When I reintroduced thos products from time to time. I like dairy products, but real dairy products because it is beneficial for the intestinal flora. Although for some people, dairy products are not favorable.

The emunctories and our intestinal barrier

In the body we have several emunctories: the kidneys, the liver, the skin, the lungs, the intestines and also the mucous membranes.

The emunctories do not work properly due in part to the modern diet. Because in the modern diet there have been many genetic manipulations, therefore molecular, and the addition of many artificial additives.

Thus our digestive enzymes and our mucins, which are glycoproteins that create protection for our intestinal mucous membranes, are completely lost and can no longer do their job properly to digest large molecules. And these large molecules pass into the blood because our intestinal barrier is weakened. A intestinal barrier weakened lets them pass into the blood…hence food allergies.

Today, the objective of the industrialists is to cultivate cereals with better yields, which says better yields says good business… They develop species without diseases to have less loss of harvest and thus more profitability.

Cereals are prettier, bulkier, less diseased, but in terms of quality and nutrition, manufacturers don’t care. Their goals is to earn as much money as possible at the expense of our health. And often even their objective is to make us dependent on certain substances…like sugar for example.

What really matters to them is to be able to make a profit by selling in large quantities. And at the expense of nutritional quality.

The consequences

Results: we, poor humans eat this crap. Voluntary molecular modifications have completely modified the DNA of wheat. Among other things, and it is therefore normal that our enzymes, which have not evolved for ten thousand years, cannot digest these new molecules. This leads to poor digestion, poor assimilation and inevitably it pollutes our lymph, our blood, our tissues and our emunctory.

Our digestive enzymes have several enemies: poor diet, stress, tobacco, medical treatments and antibiotics. This pollution is very detrimental to our digestive system. This modern diet leads to the weakening of our digestive enzymes. Plus our way of life which is no longer in symbiosis with respect for our biological rhythm.

The large intestine

It the large intestine who has a major role in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

The small intestine is five to seven meters long than it really is and represents an area of ​​30 square meters between the folds and folds of the intestinal mucosa.

So it’s quite large since it’s roughly equivalent to a large handball field. And we have more than 100 billion bacteria that make up our microbiota.

It is one of the guarantors of our good health and it must therefore be pampered.

It is lined with a mucous membrane called the epithelium. The epithelium is itself composed of anterosite which are full of small cells which are juxtaposed to each other. It will in fact create what is called the intestinal barrier.

The role of the intestinal barrier

Its role is to be impermeable, i.e. not to allow large molecules and bacteria to pass into the blood so as not to contaminate our tissues.

Above each anterosite there are villi. They are a bit like the fibers of a carpet and which will come to select the elements which will be digested by the intestine.

The anterosite have their own means of defense since they have a whole bunch of tools at their fingertips to be able to face the invader.

For example, the intestinal mucous membranes are carpets of immune cells such as lymphocytes, white blood cells, for example.

The antero sites form a natural barrier and if they become distended this is where molecules and bacteria enter the blood. This distention is the case for celiac disease or irritable bowel syndrome or intestinal permeability

The people who will have a genetic sensitivity in fact it is explained in a very simple way. They will have immune cells that include a molecular marker with HLA human leukoyte antigen. These are the glycoproteins I was telling you about earlier and which line the intestinal mucosa

So with an HLA type 2 it is when we recognize a cell as being exogenous to our interior. That is to say that it is a cell which will be identified as being a bacterium as being something unhealthy for the organism. And therefore our organism will attack it thanks to our immune system. And HLA type 1 is when we identify a cell that is part of us, so it is not attacked by our immune system.

People who have an HLA type 2 marker on their immune cells will actually have a communication problem between their cells. There will be erroneous messages that will be sent. And for example, a milk protein or gluten molecules will be identified as harmful, as being a virus or a bacterium. Then our system will recognize this molecule as being an antigen. We are going to develop our armada of cytokines which will alarm our immune system.

Except that when we use cytokines the tight junctions that stand out. You have understood it’s when you have an impermeable intestine, means that you have a problem with the tight junctions.

What studies, what solutions?

Scientific studies that have shown that people who had leaky gut actually had a microbiota that was completely disorganized. For this you can follow the Ayurvedic diet.

And a clinical doctor and biologist, Jean Seignalet has studied immunology for many years, also known for the hypotoxic diet. He conducted numerous tests on thousands of patients with high success rates. These tests showed that immune and rheumatic diseases were linked to diet.

The Ayurvedic diet is very simple:

You will have to follow several rules. First, we will put aside all dairy products and their derivatives, creams, cheeses, yogurts.

On the other hand all vegetable dairy products are to be consumed.

Bemol, the buttermilk which can be eaten with certain herbs.

You must reduce your salt intake because it is found in too large quantities in prepared meals.

It is very important to take natural mineral salt. I put a tiny bit of it in my meals, I take Himalayan salt. It is also more assimilable by the body. You can also use unrefined natural sea salt harvested manually on a layer of clay.

In fact all the minerals and all and trace elements are kept inside.

Do not take refined salt because in refined salt, they add anti-caking agents which when heated turn into cyanide.

Stop eating deli meats. Since they are generally full of preservatives, salt, bad fats and difficult to assimilate since they clog the intestines.

You will also replace the oils with cold-pressed oils that will keep all their nutrients and vitamins.

It can be hemp oil, safflower oil, linseed oil which is very good when you have estrogen problems, coconut, etc.  

There’s plenty of oil on hand to replace.

Refined oils are saturated with bad fats. Choose cold pressed oil otherwise it is as you are consuming an empty oil without nutrients.

Remove all refined sugars and go for natural sugars like jaggery which is a complete sugar or honey. They are also very good for diabetics since it has a low glycemic index

Avoid consuming cereals such as wheat and corn.

We also eat legumes. You can eat “old” rice, harvest after 3 month ago. Even if manufacturers try to change its molecule, rice manages to return to its original state. It is not undergo this molecular transformation. So it comes back to its wild state, It doesn’t have acrylamide either. Acrylamide are molecules that modify the DNA of humans and especially during cooking.

There is a lot of acrylamide on the crust of bread also linked to cooking. It is therefore very very bad for the body.

Avoid anything cooked at high temperatures between 110 degrees and 180 degrees.

It is from 110 degrees that there is the Maillard reaction. It is a chemical transformation that will take place and create new chemical bonds between carbohydrates, proteins and amino acids. This creates what is called glycated protein which oxidizes the body, clogs and tires the kidneys.

All this creates inflammatory states in the body, which is why we favor gentle steam cooking.

You can completely brown your vegetables in olive oil by temporizing. The vegetables keep their crunch, their nutrients and their prana.

Prana in Ayurveda is the vital energy of the vegetable. So cook your food al dente and your vegetables will allow you to preserve the maximum of vitamins

Cow’s milk

Regarding cow’s milk, it is not made for humans.

And since human milk is not made for cows, it makes sense…

Cow’s milk is very concentrated in iron and calcium, which is far too much for your enzymes. Human milk is perfectly adapted in terms of its composition for humans.

Cow’s milk is made so that the calf develops very quickly, unlike a human who must mature very slowly and develop very slowly.

A cow’s milk in terms of its composition includes 80% casein. Casein is what we have in whey. You know when you heat butter, especially when making ghee, the foam that rises is casein. This mixture of impurities creates bloating, irritates the intestines and sometimes it can be silent and take years to come. Chooses ghee, and we will not feel the harmful effects of casein in our organism

Cow’s milk therefore contains 80% casein while human milk only contains 17%.

You realize the difference it’is a lot. It’s only on the order of a few percentages it can be counted in tens and tens and tens of percentage difference in terms of protein

Cow’s milk contains 32 grams of protein per liter and human milk 9 grams of protein per litre. We understand why it is complicated for a human to assimilate milk.

When milk proteins are split, insulin increases in order to be able to digest them. That’s why milk consumption would have a strong impact also for diabetics.

The cows are fed fermented wheat to increase their milk yield. This is called silage. This food ferments in the absence of oxygen and these wheats and corn acidify the food and therefore their milk by snowball effect will also acidify our intestine.

The cows are treated with hormones, antibiotics and all of this ends up in the milk.

Calcium and rheumatism

If you really become aware… You are the only actor of your health,... Stop milk. Because it really does not have anything good for you. And you can completely find other sources of calcium in plants.

Calcium from animal proteins is assimilated by the body between 30 to 40% by the human body, while plant calcium is assimilated at 70%.

Now you know what to do.

The reason is that it is natural, better for your health because it can be assimilated by your body. And it doesn’t mess with your microbiota.

Tofu, broccoli contain calcium, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, chickpeas, dried figs.

And unwittingly the man will consume milk, milk proteins in his diet. When we start to look at the labels and read the compositions, there is lactose, milk powders in everything. In dark chocolate, food preparations… In short, there are really everywhere and why? You have to ask the manufacturers.

We must hunt down this milk powder and remove it from our diet. And don’t eat processed product, as raw as possible to be sure that there are no traces of lactose or other additives. These compounds are poison for us in the short term. , medium and long term.

Which cereals favored in his anti-rheumatism diet?

Just like cereals which are no longer the same, like wheat, maize….

Because of the molecular modifications of cereals, our body does not assimilate them correctly or at all.

Wheat in particular contains what is called gliadin. So it is a molecule that will distend the tight junctions and pass more easily into the blood and the lymph. It will foul the tissues by causing an immune reaction. There are also certain short chain amino acids which will cause an influx of water and gas in the intestines.

This is why in case of intestinal permeability we avoid eating gluten.

On the other hand, old cereals such as spelt and small spelt do not have these problems. Manufacturers have little interest in them because they do not generate high yields. They are rich in vitamins and trace elements and easily assimilated by people who are theoretically intolerant to gluten. There is no gluten in spelt or buckwheat.

If you can, eat bread with old grains like spelt flour. Or when you make your winter soups introducing a little spelled will give them consistency and a good grain boost.

What else against rheumatism?

You can also include

Garlic: a recent study establishes that the micronutrients in garlic help in the prevention of bone changes linked to rheumatism.

Ginger, long pepper and black pepper: these last 3 help to correct digestion and metabolism. You can use them daily.

Barley is also interesting.

Drink lukewarm water as it improves digestion, relieves joints and improves flexibility.

Ayurveda studies each case in a unique way to prescribe the ideal treatments, according to your constitution and the stage reached. And for more information on this subject, you can contact me here.

See you soon for the next article here or podcast here .

Take care of yourself and become aware of what you eat. Your body will give it back to you.

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Hay fever is another immune system derangement and relates to hypersensitivity of the nervous system.

It is also showing a disorder in the digestive system.

Vata type Hay fever

It is usually a Vata disorder because vata types are the most sensitive, however pitta and kapha types exists.

Vata allergies are cause by dust, wind, dryness and manifest more in autumn. Vata symptoms are cough with a little phlegm, headache, insomnia, restlessness and anxiety

Pitta type Hay fever

Pitta dosha is involved in the more severe allergies with toxic blood and symptoms or fever, red eyes and rashes.

Allergies of Pitta are caused by heat and sun light and manifest more in the summer. Pitta symptoms are burning eyes, thirst, fever, yellow nasal discharge and skin rashes.

Kapha type Hay fever

Kapha get allergies along with their general accumulation of dampness and mucus. Hay fever most often occurs in a weaker debilitated constitution.

Kapha allergies are cause by dampness and mold and manifest more in the spring. Kapha symptoms are abundant clear or white phlegm, dullness and heaviness.

Remedies to treat your allergies

In acute conditions the treatment for allergies is similar to that for the common cold, with a detoxifying diet.

Then, dairy and other mucus forming foods should be avoided.

Between attacks, however, it is important to strengthen the immune system and the lungs, particularly for vata constitution.

For this tonification therapy, important ayurvedic herbs are ashwaghanda and bala; Chinese herbs are ginseng and astralagus and western comfrey root. Chyawanprash is a good general tonic to take.

First determine what is your allergies type

Because you need to choose the right treatment. If you have some doubts about it, ask an ayurvedic professional that I’m also.

All kinds of hay fever require special herbs to clear the sinuses, open the head and dispel phlegm.

Kapha, Pitta and Vata remedies

For kapha, the old standby Trikatu is good or dry ginger powder as a snuff.

Ayurvedic herbs include calamus, gotu kola, ginger, cloves, camphor (in very small amount) ephedra and bayberry. Calamus ghee applied in the nose is excellent. Gotu kola oil or ghee is similarly used for Pitta conditions.

Chinese herbs include magnolia flower, xanthium (cocklebur), mint, angelica, wild ginger and chrysanthemum. Additional western herbs are peppermint, sage, eucalyptus, wintergreen, bay leaves and mullein flowers. 

When Pitta is involves, bitters and blood cleansing herbs such as echinacea, barberry, dandelion and burdock must be added.

Essential oil like menthols, eucalyptus or camphor or a paste of spicy herbs like ginger can be applied to the temple or root of the nose. Sandalwood oil on the forehead is good when there are hot or febrile sensation.

For red, itchy eyes, ghee particularly made with triphala can be applied to the eyelids.

Triphala ghee is best and ghee by itself is helpful. Chamomile, eyebright or chrysanthemum in lukewarm infusions can be used to wash the eyes.

A good formula also for hay fever is gotu kola, calamus, angelica, wild ginger and licorice in equal parts of the powders.

Basil tea (particularly holy basil or tulsi) is good taken with honey. Coriander and cilantro (coriander leaf) are best for Pitta.

Vata and Kapha types can take this with honey. Also, a lung tonic can be taken.

Other good treatments

Nasya therapy

Nasya therapy or nasal application of herbs and oils is important not only for hay fever and sinusitis but also for all diseases of the head and sinuses. Simply put 2 drops or medicated oil into the nostril with the help of eyedropper. Vata types should take licorice in sesame oil (name of the oil: anu tailam). Do it daily.

Pitta types should take gotu kola in sesame oil or Brahmi oil, and Kapha types should take calamus, eucalyptus or camphor in sesame oil.

Neti pot

Yoga employs a small pot for pouring water in the nose to clean the nostrils. This is called neti pot. Wash the nostrils with a saline solution, it works wonder in many allergies cases.

Usually, one takes about 1/8 teaspoon or a pinch of salt in the neti pot. But you can also add a little sesame oil and a little of the powder ginger or calamus for a stronger action. This opens the head and sinuses and remove phlegm and congestion. In very congested conditions a snuff of herbal powders or an application of oils works better than the neti pot.

Detoxifying: the ginger detox bath

Why ginger bath is so effective?:

• Relaxes the body and mind
• Detoxifies the body
• Increases circulation
• Promotes healthy digestion and metabolism
• Induces sweating
• Anti-inflammatory
• Reduces aches, pains, soreness and swelling in the body
• Decreases a fever
• Reduces stress
• Calms the mind
• Enhances detoxification before, during and after a cleanse
• Beneficial during illness
• Beneficial in weight loss programs

How to make it?

• 1/4 cup of organic dried ginger powder
• Lavender and rosemary essential oils (optional but recommended)
• 1/4 cup of baking soda
• Medicated massage oil to apply after the bath (optional but recommended)
• 1/4 cup of plain, unscented Epsom salt

1. Fulfill your tub with hot water.  If you are Pitta types use warm to avoid increasing Pitta.
2. When the bathtub is about half way full, add the ginger, baking soda and Epsom salt, 5-7 drops of both the lavender and the rosemary essential oil (optional). 
3. Dissolved all the ingredients into the hot water and stop fulfilling bath to the desired amount.
4. Lie in the bath for a minimum of 15 minutes or until a sweat breaks
5. Take a quick shower to rinse off any residue on your body. 
6. Apply a medicated massage oil such as Vata Oil, Pitta Oil or Kapha Oil directly after drying off to heal and balance the body and nervous system also.  This is especially beneficial for Vata and Pitta types, due to the drying and heating potential respectively.

Change the bad habits and turn them in health daily lifestyle:

Here some general advices that you can practice for all constitution. Other specific practices exists specifically for your constitution. But you can apply that if you don’t want to go further in your personalized daily routine:

• Wake up each day around 6-7am
• Practice gandusha each morning with oil such your doshas
• Scub your tongue each morning
• Perform a self oil massage at least 2 times a week with oil.. depend on your constitution
• 20-30 minutes daily exercises regimen each day such as walking, swimming, bicycling or yoga
• Avoid daytime sleeping
• Surya Namaskara (sun salutation)
• Kapala Bati pranayama
• Daily meditation

As you can see, many methods can be use to treat each allergy types. 

But choose one remedies on the list that most pertain to your symptoms, and also that you can realistically do. 

So, remember consistency is The key for an effective treatment! 

Since I’m sharing with you, you know that herbal remedies are a complimentary treatment to do with a healthy diet and lifestyle, however if you don’t have healthy diet and lifestyle you should think about it … changes required.  Without these changes, you will pacify the symptoms and not treated the root cause of the allergy. 

As always please contact me if you have any questions or comments!

And for more tips about your healthy lifestyle with ayurveda, practice with my blog.

References

The connection between seasonal allergies, food allergies, and rhinosinusitis: what is the evidence? – PubMed (nih.gov)

The relationship of rhinitis and asthma, sinusitis, food allergy, and eczema – PubMed (nih.gov)

[Respiratory allergies] – PubMed (nih.gov)

Seasonal ocular allergy and pollen counts – PubMed (nih.gov)

Seasonal allergic rhinitis and the role of apitherapy – PubMed (nih.gov)