Amina Herbal Health Care Inc Dar es salaam Tanzania

Depression

 

A Natural Way to Treat Depression

 

Depression is also marked as neurotic or psychotic disorder associated with sadness –making one cry, inactive, feeling hopelessness, guilty, difficulty in concentration, excessive or lack of appetite, sleeping problems, feelings of dejection, suicidal tendencies, less sexual desire, fatigue and fearfulness.

 

Causes of Depression

Depression can be caused by a number of problems including financial and marital issues. An example; when a person fails to achieve their goals after struggling for a long time, they turn to be depressed, feeling discriminated and or wish to commit suicide. Diseases such as cancer, HIV/AIDS etc. can also depress a person, loss of loved one, some drugs taken daily to treat chronic diseases, thinking of labor pains, or divorce hassels can depress somebody.

 

Nature abuses can lead to depression-this type of depression is common in men who are in relationship with more than a single partner, or handsome boys who are still single but in an age of marriege, and rich men who are admired by women for their financial stability. In the world, they are some women who bewitch their husbands using different things, some of these things are poisonous to a man and can lead to madness or even death-it depends on the aim of witch craft. It is very important to believe in God because they are strong bad evils you can never defeat unless by only God’s will.

 

According to a Natural Therapeutic, depression may be caused by an imbalance of water & earth, air & space, fire & water elements. The brain’s electrochemistry has an erratic overreaction-this is- air & space (Vata) imbalance, triggers a loss of enzymatic activity in the metabolism- fire & water (Pita) imbalance. Later on, water & earth (Kapha) responds by trying to stick all things down, bringing about heaviness or darkness, and stagnation which the mind-body translates orally as the negative message of hopelessness and depression.

 

It is obvious that an imbalance of the elements can interfere with normal functioning of the mind and nervous system which in turn, leads to depression.

 

With air & space dosha imbalance Depression;

 

The skin turn to be cold and a patient experience shivers , loss of appetite-leading to weight loss, poor digestive function, anxiety, constipation, uncontrolled conversations, frequent urination, fearfulness and lack of energy. Once such symptoms become obvious, it then recommended avoiding sex indulgence, masturbation, and over-exercising, sleeping late, exposure to cold, and wind, and consumption of caffeine containing items should be decreased. Remember to pray to God frequently.

 

With fire & water dosha imbalance Depression;

There’s a mood swing, the body heat increases-turning to be sensitive to all types of heat, excessive desire for eating sweet and creamy things such as butter, ghee, ice creams, etc. Irritability becomes worse day by day, there will be diarrhea, gas increase in the stomach, reddish skin, hair fall, and the eyes may become red. This might be due to walking in the sun without covering the head, excessive use of hot water in bathing, consumption of hot and spicy foods, starving, self criticizing, and steam or sauna therapies without head covers.

 

With water & earth dosha imbalance Depression;

The body feels cold, very weak, oversleeping, inactivity, appetite and weight increase, skin paleness, less interest in entertainment usually occur. Such depression attacks during winter or spring seasons, and it is contributed by inactivity and lack of exercise or laziness, heavy dietary habits, rough dressing, eating cold staffs instead of warm, swallowing foods without chewing properly, light outputs in cold seasons and over sleeping during day time.

 

Treatment of air & space dosha imbalance Depression;

 

• Sleep before 10pm and wake-up at 430am, take two glasses of warm water, meditate for 10minutes, take a walk for 10-20 minutes. When you come back from walking, apply warm sesame oil all over the body, most especially head and soles of the feet. Take a warm bath and have breakfast before 8am. You can request for your element pacifying foods from us.

 

• Use anise, cumin, ginger, cinnamon, sesame seeds, gotu kola, licorice, nutmeg and Bacopa monnieri as teas or spices. Such herbs balance Air element.

 

• Soft religious or any type of soft music is ideal.

 

• Avoid eating salads, fruits and caffeine containing items.

 

• Buy Vata Balancing Formula (VBF)

 

The ingredients include;

Centela aciatica, Acorus calamus, Nordostachys jatamansi and Crotalaria verrucosa.

Packaging; 600grams-powder

Dose: a quarter teaspoon of the powder taken along with half cup of warm water thrice daily.

 

General Health Tonic Formula (GHTF)-02

Contains: Withania Sominfera, Tinospora Cardifolia, Bacopa Monnieri and Elletaria Cardamomum

Packaging: 65grams-powder

Dose: Four grams of the powder taken with a cup of warm milk twice daily. This also promotes good sleep. One of these plants causes constipation, so now you have take one teaspoon of 3Fat bedtime so that you prevent constipation.

 

Other Alternatives;

 

• Prepare by ptutting together a teaspoon of Ocimum sanctum and a quarter teaspoon of Salvia officinalis, stir in a half cup of hot water until the herbs dissolve and drink it warm-twice daily.

 

• Prepare a nasal drop by warming a little amount of sesame oil. Stand the bottle of the oil into water until it becomes slightly warm, then put five drops of the oil in each nostril. This should be done on the empty stomach twice daily-morning and evening.

 

Treatment of fire & water dosha imbalance Depression;

Sleep before 10pm and wake-up at 430am, take two glasses of cold but not ice cold water, meditate for 10minutes, take a walk for 10-20 minutes.

 

When you come back from walking, apply coconut or sunflower oil all over the body, most especially head and soles of the feet, and then  take a normal water bath (not cold or hot) and have breakfast before 8am. You can request for your element pacifying foods from us.

Include herbs such as aloe, burdock root, chrysanthemum, coconut, corianderum stivum, cumin, Mentha x-pipperata, pomegranate, Santalum album, asparagus racemosus, and natural sugar in your diet.

 

• Avoid hot and spicy foods, red meat, fish, vinegar, cheese, alcohol, and tobacco.

 

• Take cool but not ice cold drinks, a vegetarian diet, dairy products but not yogurt, sweet fruits, vegetables, grains are good in combating depression of such type.

 

• Avoid sun and hot environment.

 

• Bath with normal but not hot water

 

• Swimming and bicycle riding will speed-up the cure.

 

• Eat breakfast before 8, lunch at 12am, a snack at 430pm, supper before 8pm.

 

• Detoxification programs (Five therapies) can be undergone.

 

• Listen to gospel, soft or any relaxing music.

 

• Put three drops of Brahmi oil into each nostril twice a daily, and apply the oil on the sides of your feet at bedtime.

 

In order to balance all the three Doshas;        

• Buy the Tridosha Balancing Formula (TBF)

The ingredients include Asparagus racemosus, Nordostachys jatamansi, Centella aciatica, Tinospora cordifolia.

Packaging: 600grams-powder

Dose: three grams of the powder taken with a cup of warm water twice daily. One of these plants causes constipation, so now you have take one teaspoon of Triphala at bedtime so that you prevent constipation.

 

With water & earth dosha imbalance Depression;

 

• Light soups are recommended.

 

• Wake up earlier as mentioned above.

 

• Take two glasses of hot water first thing in the morning.

 

• Eat apples and pears as your favorite fruits.

 

• Add grains such as barley, buckwheat, millet, and corns in your diet.

 

• Honey is used as a sweetener.

 

• For spices, you can use all spices except salty.

 

• Remove oils and fats, wheat and rice, all types of cold foods, and also avoid taking sweets, nuts, rich desserts, red meat, and dairy products from your diet. You can request for your element pacifying foods from us.

• Do exercise such as bicycling, jogging and aerobics-This is good to be done during sunny hours between 8-10am or after 4pm.

 

• Do not sleep during the day.

 

• Undergo the Five Detoxification Therapies (Panchakarma) and remember to meditate as indicated above.

 

• Get Tridosha Balancing Formula (TBF)