Feel great using one of our 7 natural remedies for constipation. Enjoy fast constipation relief but always adjust the underlying cause of why you have constipation for long term healthy stools. What causes constipation Most constipation is caused by a lack of: fibre in your food water in your body exercise. [...]
Read our extremely useful home constipation treatments based on foods to avoid and fruits to eat.
Fruits, except banana and jack fruit, are beneficial in the treatment of constipation.
Bael fruit is the best of all laxatives. It cleans and tones up the intestines. Adults take sixty grams of bael fruit before dinner.
Chronic constipation patients take a medium-sized pear after dinner or with breakfast.
Other fruits for chronic constipation relief are:
* Guava :1 or 2 a day
* Grapes for breakfast : 350 gr / 12 oz a day, or raisins soaked in water
* Oranges : 1 or 2 at bedtime and 1 or 2 when waking up
* Papaya : half a medium-sized papaya should be eaten at breakfast
* Figs : soak 4 or 5 dry figs overnight in a little water to eat in the morning
* Spinach juice : raw spinach juice-100 ml (3 1/2 oz), mixed with same amount of water, taken twice daily.
Foods that cause constipation are:
1. Processed foods: refined, white foods, + processed prepackaged foods.
2. Foods high in hydrogenated and animal fats: cheese, ice cream, fatty meats, whole milk, chips, pizza.
3. High sugar, caffeine and non-nutritional drinks: alcohol, coffee, cola and fruit juice (since the fiber has been removed).
Make your own constipation relief 'fruit juice' : smoothies!
Linseed, alse, or flax seed is very useful in difficult constipation cases.
Swallow a teaspoon of flax seed with water before each meal to get both lubrication and roughage.
