Do you feel pain while passing the stool? Is it challenging for you to feel light and healthy? If yes, you’ll find peace after reading the great piece of advice and a worthier solution of Chronic Constipation by renowned Dr Muhammad Sharafat Ali.
Constipation can make your daily routine completely lifeless. Would you believe it if I tell you it’s you who is causing this pain to yourself? In most of the cases, Yes. But with slight lifestyle modifications, you can save yourself from the pain of acute or chronic constipation, and we’ll tell you how.
Before jumping straight to the solution, let’s understand the root cause a little as constipation can cause severe health issues and should be handled before.
What is Constipation Anyways?
Acute or Chronic Constipation can be described as ‘Having fewer than three bowel movements a week.’ The bowel is a part of the human digestive system and is referred to as the Gut or Small and Large Intestine.
There are many reasons and underlying issues that cause Constipation. Usually, when you have constipation, the bowel movement becomes slow or, in some cases, slowest, and the intensity varies from person to person.
There Symptoms of Constipation that best describe the condition are;
Bowel movements are slow and painful
A feeling like your bowel isn’t empty
The stool is quite dry and hard
The feeling of bloating and nausea
Stomach aches and cramps
If you are experiencing constipation and feeling too worried, remember, it’s a common disease but varies from gender to gender, age to age, and race to race.
The Best Treatment of Constipation:
The constipation relief should be on time. Otherwise, it may lead to some chronic situations. Allopathic medicines mostly do not work well for chronic constipation.
Further, even herbal remedies and lifestyle modifications don’t seem to work out, and that’s because patients use these remedies in an unhealthy way.
If you want to treat yourself without side effects and any other complications, you must go through
Herbal Tips and remedies
Dr Muhammad Sharafat Ali is a well-known and most professional Herbalist whose remedies have witnessed maximum positive effects on the patient’s lives. He aims to heal his patients without using any medicines but explaining the best natural tips and tricks.
The following are the tips to treat constipation Just go through these golden pieces of advice, change your lifestyle accordingly and see how the magic spells everywhere.
Drink at least 12 to 16 glasses of water daily to help your digestive system overcome dryness.
Don’t let your intestine do the work of your teeth. Chew on every bite a minimum of 3 times to help the digestion process.
Walking in natural green places and exercising, you can get rid of stress and ultimately constipation.
Treating Constipation with Remedies:
Yes, constipation can be cured and even immediate constipation relief is possible, too. Here are some home remedies for constipation as explained by Dr Muhammad Sharafat Ali.
Remedy#1:
You can soak 6 to 7 pieces of figs in a glass of water at night, and the following day, grind it and drink it.
Remedy#2:
Eating a bowl of curd/yogurt mixed with two spoons of Jaggery (Gurr) and two spoons of Psyllium husk (Espagnol) after breakfast and lunch can be an excellent kick for constipation.
Pro tip: Avoid taking curd at night or after dinner.
Remedy#3:
Eat fruits and vegetables rich in fibers to treat digestive tract infections and ultimately constipation.
Remedy#4:
Shift to the wheat flour meshed at the stone mill as it makes the bread more fibrous and nourishing, helping constipation.
Remedy#5:
Use Cupping therapy to treat yourself with an ancient and Sunnah Method to eliminate all the sufferings, either physical or emotional.
Even when you know how to treat and prevent Constipation, you wouldn’t be able to make the best out of these remedies until and unless you understand the causes and science behind constipation. Here’s what you should know;
How Digestive System works Normally
The human digestive system is a long pipeline track that starts from the mouth and ends at the rectum. The food moves typically through the digestive tract, and every part of this tract or gut performs its function to digest the food in the best possible way.
When taken orally, the food enters the stomach via Pharynx (food pipe in the chest), and primary digestion occurs. It then moves to the small intestine, where all of the nutrients are absorbed back into the body.
The partially digested or poorly digested food is called waste; it moves from the small intestine to the large intestine. As it reaches the colon (central part of the large intestine), it absorbs water from the food mixture to give the stool an excretory form.
It then passes through the rectum and anal canal to finally leave the body via the anus. The process might seem more superficial to you, but it involves many science and physiology of skin layers and sphincters in absorption, dilution, and digestion.
If you mess with nature (poor habits), nature disturbs your natural body processes, and this is how you start feeling pains followed by constipation.
What Causes Constipation?
Constipation causes vary person to person - it happens when your colon (the large intestine) absorbs too much water from the waste (stool) that makes it dry and it becomes hard to pass. Generally, anything that isn’t from Mother Nature can cause constipation.
Today, constipation’s primary cause is refined and processed full of chemicals foods available to us in form of fast food, junk food, and frozen food. These foods are poorly absorbed by the body and thus; cause constipation.
Lifestyle Choices leading to Constipation:
Although not every time, most of the time, your lifestyle choices are drenching you in all the pain of these health issues. Some common root causes of Constipation are;
- Stress, overthinking, and emotional health.
- Excessive use of dairy products like cheese and milk
- Acute Changes in routine, like traveling
- Eating or sleep other than routine times
- Low fiber foods intake
- Less physical exercises
- Dehydration (not having much water)
But it’s not always your fault; sometimes, constipation can be a symptom of any other underlying health condition or maybe a side effect of some other medications.
Other Reasons for Constipation:
Other root causes of constipation can be;
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Pregnancy
Pregnant women may experience more constipation than non-pregnant, and after childbirth, it can happen. The reason is a drastic change in hormones that make women more prone to constipation. The baby inside the womb also squishes the intestine that may cause constipation.
Luckily, mostly this pregnancy induced constipation is treatable with above-mentioned remedies.
- Medications
Certain medicines disturb the digestive system as a side effect and ultimately lead to constipation.
Antidepressants used to treat emotional and mental health
Antinauseatics used to prevent nausea and vomiting
Certain blood pressure medicines
Antacids used to neutralize the stomach acidity
NSAIDs used to target pain and inflammation
Psychiatric medication for mental health
Anticonvulsants used to handle seizures Multivitamins and especially iron pills
These are all allopathic medicines that sadly come with a comprehensive side effect profile, and constipation is one of them. What’s even more saddening is that it may lead to other health issues as a side effect if you use some medicine to constipation.
If you want to avoid all the side effects, make a habit of listening to to heal and treat your body most generously and naturally possible.
- Medical Complications
Some health issues that may lead to constipation are;
- The structural complication in the digestive tract
- Multiple organ diseases
- Underactive thyroid glands
- Neurological and psychiatric problems
- Lazy bowel disease
- Colorectal cancer
- Irritable bowel syndrome
Types of Constipation:
As the root causes are many, constipation isn’t the same in all cases. Usually, we can best describe it in two types.
Primary constipation
Secondary constipation
- Primary constipation:
In this type of constipation, the reason is usually unknown, and it’s tough to target the root cause. One can categorize it as normal transit constipation, slow transit constipation, and outlet constipation.
- Secondary constipation:
This type of constipation usually features a known root cause. Some medical complications or underlying health issues are the reasons. Like depression, inevitable use of medications, and irritable bowel disease.
