Natural Home Remedies

For the small, everyday upsets — a heavy stomach, a restless night, a tickle in the throat. Time-honoured, gentle approaches that meet each complaint at its root rather than just hushing the symptom.

30 home remedies

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All DigestiveRespiratorySleep MindEnergy GeneralSkinMusculoskeletalEveryday

Indigestion

Digestive

A feeling of heaviness, gas, or incomplete digestion after eating, often a sign of weak digestive fire (agni).

vata · kapha

Acidity

Digestive

A burning sensation in the stomach or chest from excess heat and sharpness (high pitta) in the digestive tract.

pitta

Constipation

Digestive

Infrequent, dry, or difficult bowel movements, usually a sign of excess dryness and irregularity (high vata).

vata

Diarrhea

Digestive

Frequent, loose, or watery stools that arise when agni becomes disturbed and the gut loses its capacity to absorb properly.

pitta · vata

Nausea

Digestive

An unsettled stomach with an urge to vomit, often arising from disturbed digestive fire, excess pitta, or accumulated ama.

pitta · kapha

Loss of Appetite

Digestive

A persistent lack of desire to eat, suggesting weakened digestive fire (mandagni) or an accumulation of undigested matter (ama).

kapha · vata

Common Cold

Respiratory

A self-limiting upper respiratory condition marked by nasal congestion, runny nose, and mild fatigue, rooted in kapha accumulation or vata exposure.

kapha · vata

Cough

Respiratory

A protective reflex to clear the airways that, when chronic, indicates excess kapha obstructing the chest or vata irritating the delicate lung channels.

kapha · vata

Sore Throat

Respiratory

Pain, scratchiness, or inflammation in the throat that commonly signals a pitta-driven infection or kapha-mucus accumulation in the upper respiratory channels.

pitta · kapha

Sinus Congestion

Respiratory

A feeling of fullness, pressure, or blockage in the nasal and sinus passages caused by excess kapha accumulation or vata-driven dryness and spasm.

kapha · vata

Seasonal Allergies

Respiratory

A hypersensitive immune reaction to seasonal triggers like pollen that manifests as sneezing, watery eyes, and congestion, often involving both kapha excess…

kapha · pitta

Insomnia

Sleep Mind

Difficulty falling or staying asleep, most commonly caused by excess vata disturbing the nervous system or excess pitta keeping the mind over-stimulated at n…

vata · pitta

Anxiety

Sleep Mind

A state of excessive worry, restlessness, or fear driven by aggravated vata disturbing the nervous system and destabilising the mind.

vata

Stress

Sleep Mind

Prolonged mental and physical strain from perceived demands exceeding resources, which disturbs vata's capacity for steadiness and pitta's capacity for patie…

vata · pitta

Low Mood

Sleep Mind

A persistent sense of heaviness, sadness, or withdrawal that arises when kapha suppresses vitality and mental clarity, or when depleted vata leaves the mind…

kapha · vata

Mental Fatigue

Sleep Mind

A sense of mental heaviness, difficulty concentrating, or cognitive slowness that arises when the mind is overworked, ojas is depleted, or ama clouds the cha…

vata · kapha

Low Energy

Energy General

A persistent sense of physical or mental exhaustion that falls short of a medical diagnosis, often reflecting depleted ojas, weak agni, or accumulated ama we…

vata · kapha

Headache

Energy General

Pain or pressure in the head arising from vata-driven tension and dryness in the cranial channels or pitta-driven heat and inflammation inflaming them.

vata · pitta

Fever Care

Energy General

A rise in body temperature reflecting the body's immune response to infection or internal heat accumulation; Ayurveda views fever (jwara) as a sign of pitta…

pitta

Motion Sickness

Energy General

Nausea, dizziness, and discomfort triggered by travel, arising when vata's erratic movement aggravates the sensory channels and kapha accumulates in the stom…

vata · kapha

Acne

Skin

Inflammatory skin eruptions arising when excess pitta heat and toxins accumulate in the blood and kapha obstructs the skin's follicular channels.

pitta · kapha

Dry Skin

Skin

Rough, flaky, or tight-feeling skin resulting from excess vata depleting moisture and natural oils from the skin tissues.

vata

Minor Rashes

Skin

Localised skin redness, itching, or mild eruptions arising from pitta heat in the blood, kapha-driven congestion in the skin channels, or contact with an irr…

pitta · kapha

Stiff Joints

Musculoskeletal

Aching, crackling, or stiff joints — especially in the morning — arising when vata dries out the lubricating fluid in the joint spaces.

vata

Muscle Soreness

Musculoskeletal

Aching or tender muscles resulting from physical exertion or accumulated vata causing dryness and contraction in the muscle tissues.

vata

Back Tension

Musculoskeletal

Stiffness, aching, or tension along the spine or lower back driven by vata disturbing the channels that nourish the vertebral and muscular tissues.

vata

Menstrual Cramps

Everyday

Painful cramping during menstruation arising when vata obstructs the downward movement of apana and pitta drives inflammation in the uterine tissues.

vata · pitta

Water Retention

Everyday

Puffiness or swelling from excess fluid accumulating in the tissues, most often reflecting kapha stagnation obstructing the body's normal fluid-draining chan…

kapha

Bad Breath

Everyday

Unpleasant breath originating in the mouth or gut when accumulated ama, excess pitta heat, or kapha mucus creates conditions for bacterial overgrowth on the…

pitta · kapha

Dandruff

Everyday

Flaking of the scalp skin driven by excess vata creating dryness and irregular cell shedding, or pitta-driven scalp inflammation increasing skin turnover.

vata · pitta
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