Constipation is also known as dyschezia or costiveness. It is defined as an acute or chronic condition mainly characterized by dry and hard infrequent stools that are quite painful or difficult to pass.

Multiple factors are responsible for this condition, primarily a patient’s habits often reveal contributory and correctable causes, such as insufficient dietary roughage, lack of exercise, suppression of defecatory urges at inconvenient moments, bad time for full defecation, and prolongs travel.

Hence the definition and causes of the disease hold the same in contemporary science too. In Ayurveda, there are multiple herbs that help in the management of constipation and prevent a person from various health-related disorders. [Continue Reading]

Health Benefits of Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum)

Deep AyurvedaBy Deep AyurvedaDec 15, 2020