Idigestion and Constipation:

For indigestion take a drink made of a spoonful of ginger juice, a teaspoon of lemon juice mixed with a bottle of soda.  Solt or sugar can also be added.

Put 2 or 3 tender leaves of "tulasi" in a glass of water overnight and drink this water early in the morning.  This will clean your bowels and purify your blood.

Treatment for indigestion: Eat a little "ajwain" or, heat a glass of buttermilk and water with a little jeera (Cumminseed), curry leaf and bruised dry or fresh ginger, This will make a refreshing drink at night.
By Using a small piece of ginger in your daily food in any form you can be free from indigestion and other stomach troubles. Ginger is like a digestive tonic.

• Here are a few more home remedies for indigestion:

1.   Eat a little ajwain (voma) or drink a little of its decoction (kasaya).
2. Eat a little burnt onion or burnt garlic.
3. Mix a little pepper powder, lime juice and salt which a few slices of raw radish and eat it.
4. Eat a cardamom fruit together with a ripe plantain daily before going to bed in the night.
5. Mix a pinch of cooking salt and a tsp. of lime juice, dissolve it in a little water and drink it.
6. Proper exercise is a reliable remedy for longstanding indigestion.
7. Patients with cronic indigestion should forgo evening meals(dinner) and practice taking fruits and/or raw vegetables.
8. practice mastigating your food thoroughly.  Do not eat between meals.  Practice deep breathing about 10 - 12 times half an hour before every meal.  Drink half glass of hot water before retiring every night.
9. Finely grind the following 40 gms of tender budding leaves of Ekka (Calatropis gingantea), 200 gms. pepper and 50 gms of rock salt (Saindavalavana), prepare half inch diameter tablets out of this and daily eat one tablet in a little water for some days.
10. Take equal quantities of dry ginger, gingelly, and jagery, grind or powder them together, dissolve 6 gms of this powder in half glass of milk and drink it daily in the early morning of 6 days.

• Few Home Remedies for Constipation: 

1. Mix castor oil with old tamarind pulp, prepare a paste and insert it into the opening of the annus.  Bowels will move immediately.
2. Take the leaves of country fig(Athi; Ficus glomerata) mash or pound them along with a little rice water, squeeze out the juice, and 50 gms. of sugar candy and eat it daily for 12 dys.  There will be free movement of bowels.
3. Rub the root of castor plant mix this paste with about 25 gms. of butter and gradually sip it.
4. Mix th root of kadeer (Sida cordifolia) and giner and boil them in water to reduce it to 1/8 its quantity sprinkle a little gingelly oil and drink it twice daily for a few days.  There will be free movement of bowels.
5. Eat a plantain or a thick slice of ripe papaya fruit before going to bed at night.
6. Have your meals at fixed time.  Drink a glass of hot water half and hour before breakfast and half an hour before retiring at night.  Make a habit of answering calls of nature at fixed time every day.
7. Squeeze out the juice of bottle gourd and a little salt and dring it daily for some days.  This will cure chronic constipation.
8. Boil horse gram in water, strain and add lime juice and salt to this water and drink one glass full of this solution once daily for a few days.
9. Take ripe papaya fruit (sliced) mix it with a little each of cummin seed powder, pepper powder, and salt and eat it daily.  This will cure constipation, indigestion and worm  trouble.
10. Take 25 gms. of plantain fruit, mixed with half its quantity of tamarind pulp, grind it to a paste and eat if=t for 2 to 3 days.
11. Never tke purgatives for the cure of the stoppage of bowel movement (constipation).  Purgatives will weaken the intestines and the faculty of natural bowel movement and will ultimately lead to damage of the inner walls of intestines resulting in dysentery, intestinal wound and ultimate development of piles.
12. Too much intake of laxatives can make you habituated to them; instead, depend more on vegetable soups before dinner every night.  Your system will rarely need  digestives then.
13. In case the constipation does not respond to ordinary treatments, enema may be taken twice a week even during the aforesaid other treatments.
14. For the cure of constipation of old people or others will chronic constipation: Take two ounces of curds, one ounce of milk foam, 2 tbsp. of gingelly oil and 2 tbsp. of jaggery syrup, mix all together and eat it daily for a few days.
15. Never fail to answer calls of nature when the urge arises.
16. If you want to get rid of constipation, add 1 tbsp. of "Isabgol" to half cup of boiling milk and drink it just before retiring to bed.