Article by Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S
Overeating is such a behavior that it will definitely pulls the particular person into the dungeons of many well being points. Many individuals don’t eat wholesome portions of meals and much more individuals have no idea the boundaries of taking meals. The place and when to cease is an enormous difficulty. Individuals eat fortunately with out even taking pity on the poor abdomen which faces immense stress of digesting no matter is supplied to it at time and likewise out of time. The digestive system lastly wears and tears and likewise provides up after a sure time period is what many individuals have no idea or don’t wish to know. Overeating habitually results in continual indigestion of meals which may develop into a silent killer and basis for tons of of scary ailments to manifest in future.
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Overeating: What Ayurveda says?
Ayurveda too condemns overeating. Ayurveda classifies the abdomen into three parts. One portion needs to be reserved for stable meals. The second third needs to be reserved for liquid meals. The ultimate one third of the abdomen needs to be reserved for the motion and motion of doshas. This can be a clear assertion that one must take stable meals to at least one third of the capability of his or her abdomen. It will assist in balancing the doshas within the intestine, allow simple digestion of meals and also will preserve us wholesome and is a defend in opposition to metabolic problems.
Atimatra Bhojana and Agnimandya
‘Sarve api rogah mande agnau….’. Virtually all ailments have their origin from ‘weak digestive hearth within the intestine’. This weak hearth can be designed to digest a selected amount of meals in our system. Meals is the gasoline for our digestive hearth, it must be glad and satiated, however not postpone. Think about placing a big amount of gasoline over a small flame of fireplace! The identical occurs after we overload our abdomen with meals. The massive amount of meals is not going to act like gasoline for the fireplace, however will act as a fireplace extinguisher. When that is equipped very often by an individual who’s accustomed and habituated to consuming giant portions of meals, it results in manda agni. This manda agni is the chief purpose for all metabolic problems together with these talked about above.
So, the amount of meals needs to be decided following the compartmentalization accomplished by Ayurveda, as stated above. Even with this, the amount of consumption of meals differs from particular person to particular person and needs to be personalized as per one’s prakriti. One ought to eat consciously and may have ‘meals consciousness’.
Ati ashana
Ati ashana – means extreme consuming or overeating. It is without doubt one of the dangerous practices in accordance with Ayurveda and is without doubt one of the causes of dosha prakopa – aggravation of doshas. Adhyashana whereby the particular person eats meals even earlier than his beforehand consumed meals has been digested can be thought of as extreme consuming.
Ati Santarpana
Acharya Charaka has devoted a chapter to debate Santarpanottha and Apatarpanottha Vyadhis. Amongst these, Santarpanottha Vyadhis are ailments brought on by over-nutrition or over-saturation of the physique brought on by overeating of meals. That is additionally a case of ‘over consuming’ and associated problems. Equally, chapters like ‘mata ashitiya’ emphasize on consuming meals in correct and balanced portions.
Pashuvad Bhojana
Ayurveda additionally explains ‘the animal intuition’ of consuming within the context of ‘Ajirna’ i.e. indigestion of meals. The Acharya says, ‘an individual who doesn’t have self-control eats something and all the pieces with an animal intuition, with out wanting or contemplating the amount of meals falls sufferer to critical sort of indigestion of meals, which is accountable and is a root trigger for a lot of systemic and metabolic problems’. This displays the necessity for significant and aware consuming.
Manasika Karana
Trendy medication contributes to overeating to emphasize responses and launch of cortisol which may enhance craving of meals.
Chinta – overthinking or stress, shoka – grief, bhaya – worry or anxious conditions, krodha – anger or our response in direction of anxious triggers, irshya – jealousy, lobha – greed or longing for meals, ruk – ache and so on have been talked about amongst the causes of ajirna i.e. indigestion of meals. This exhibits that Ayurveda too has linked completely different psychological behaviours to indigestion of meals. Grasp Charaka additional tells, in presence of those psychological disturbances, even the wholesome meals consumed in correct portions wouldn’t get digested correctly, then what to inform about meals whose high quality and amount haven’t been monitored.
Trendy medication additionally says that the pace of consuming meals, sort of meals and multitasking whereas consuming meals are additionally contributory. Ayurveda too has given a set of rules within the ‘upayoga samstha’ a part of ‘Ahara Vidhi Vishesha Ayatana’ i.e. eight elements pertaining to consumption of meals. Right here, the Acharya says that one ought to eat solely when one feels hungry and the beforehand consumed meals has been digested, in a desired place with desired articles, whereas taking care that she or he isn’t consuming too shortly or too slowly and one ought to eat with utmost focus with out speaking or laughing.
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Results of Atimatra Ahara: In response to Grasp Vagbhata
अतिमात्रं त्वशनं त्रीनपि दोषान् प्रकोपयेत्।
पीड्यमाना हि वाताद्या युगपतेन कोपिताः॥
आमेनान्नेन दिष्टेन तदेवाविश्य कुर्वते।
विष्टम्भयन्तोऽलसकं च्यावयन्तो विसूचिकाम्॥
अधरोत्तरमार्गाभ्यां सहसैवाजितात्मनः।अ.हृ.सू.८/४-५।
Excessively consumed meals in a short time vitiates all of the three doshas.
The meals doesn’t get digested correctly and on the similar time being pressed and obstructed by extreme undigested meals, vata and different doshas get vitiated.
Consequent to indigestion, and because of elapse of time of digestion, ama is fashioned. Ama is intermediate merchandise of digestion fashioned because of weak digestive hearth and its improper motion on the meals resulting in its insufficient digestion. This product is ineffective for the physique. In reality it produces toxicity within the intestine and likewise within the tissues in the long term and is a basis materials for a wide selection of ailments to manifest.
The vitiated doshas are as soon as once more contaminated with ama. This causes the formation of sama doshas. They type a vicious mixture and lodge within the tissues inflicting many problems.
The vitiated doshas trigger Alasaka dysfunction because of blockage of the channels of the physique brought on by contaminated meals, and doshas related to ama.
The identical doshas trigger visuchika dysfunction by expelling the undigested meals concurrently and repeatedly from oral and anal routes.
Each these situations are manifested in people who find themselves undisciplined in meals practices and usually are not self-controlled.
Santarpanottha Rogas
Illnesses induced because of overeating / over-saturation with meals
– Prameha – diabetes
– Prameha pidaka – diabetic carbuncles
– Kotha – urticaria
– Kandu – itching
– Pandu – anaemia, liver problems,
– Ama – ailments brought on by ama
– Jwara – fever
– Kushta – pores and skin ailments
– Ama pradosha – ailments secondary to vitiation of ama
– Mutrakrichra – dysuria
– Arochaka – anorexia, tastelessness
– Tandra – drowsiness, stupor
– Klaibya – impotence, erectile dysfunctions, sexual dysfunctions
– Stahulya – weight problems,
– Alasya – laziness,
– Gaurava – heaviness of the physique
– Indriya srotasam lepa – blockages within the channels of the physique and likewise within the sense organs
– Buddheh moha – delusion
– Shopha – completely different sorts of oedema
– Anyaih cha – many ailments just like the above stated
Additionally,
Atimatra of meals causes formation and enhance of ama, kapha and meda – fats, which individually or collectively trigger blocks within the channels of the physique and trigger a wide selection of problems.
Ayurveda rules of administration of ailments induced because of overeating
Nidana parivarjana – One ought to preserve away the causes of those ailments. Overeating is the primary explanation for ailments induced because of overeating. Due to this fact, the particular person needs to be educated in regards to the meals, amount of meals and meals etiquettes and the particular person too ought to comply with the identical. The particular person ought to regularly shift in direction of significant consuming of wholesome meals, in fact with the assistance of a doctor or dietician.
Different rules –
Illnesses induced because of overnutrition or overeating shall be handled rules given for treating ‘santarpanottha rogas’ in Ayurveda. They’re –
– Vamana – therapeutic emesis
– Virechana – therapeutic purgation
– Raktamokshana – bloodletting
– Vyayama – indulgence in bodily workouts and exercises
– Upavasa – therapeutic and deliberate fasting
– Dhuma – fumigation
– Swedana – sudation
