INDIGESTION

Your stomach is a tough customer. Thick muscles clamp down on food and squeeze it for all it's worth an acid powerful enough to burn your skin bathes the stomach walls. No wonder you and your tummy may get into a tussle every now and then. And those blows above the belt like heartburn and indigestion are enough to make you call for help. Just hope that the help doesn't make you hurt worse.
Many of the treatments recommended by doctor for their patient with stomach problems simply do not work or actually do more harm than good. So back clear understanding of the digestive process that go on in the human body is vital to the understanding of the disorders from which digestion suffers the major disorders proposed to be covered in this web page is week digestive dyspepsia or slackness of the digestion process.
In corporation of food in human body is accompanied by a three fold process of digestion absorption and assimilation digestion begins the moment food enters the mouth. It mixes with the saliva and is made more permeable for the gastric juice, which exudes from the openings of the tiny glands of the stomach the gastric juice consisting of pepsin, and ranin breaks down the proteins into small molecules. The churning of the stomach mixes the food with the gastric juices and hydrochloric acid and when it becomes soluble it passes through the pylorus, an orifice at the lower end of the stomach, into the bowel. The more light the food the easier it is digested.
After it passes into the intestine, the food is exposed to the action of bile, pancreatic juices, intestinal juice and the bacteria. These juices contain many elements, which break down the food into the final products like glycerin, which sustain the system. The only substance absorbed from the stomach to any extend is alcohol, all other substances must undergo the transformation that takes place in the intestines food materials are absorbed almost exclusively by the small intestine, water and salt through the colon, the large intestine. The food is passed down the intestine by the contractions of its muscular coat. The indigestible residue, together with various substances, which are waste matter excreted from the liver and the intestinal walls, is through out of the body in the stools.
Assimilation is a much slower process, the blood circulates through every organ and each takes from it what is necessary for its own growth and repair. The cells in the bones extract lime salt, muscles sugar and protein and so forth. The greater bulk is assimilated by the muscles.
CAUSES OF INDIGESTION: -
The fundamental digestive disorder is indigestion or dyspepsia, which may give rise to more acute or serious diseases. The basic cause of indigestion besides weak digestive powers is over eating or eating foods, which must be avoided. Stools of such persons contain large amounts of undigested matter. They suffer from flatulence arising from putrefying matter in the stomach or the intestines. Breaking wind or belching may provide temporary relife, but there is generally a feeling of fullness amounting to heaviness, loss of appetite and general discomfort. Some times hyperacidity presence of more acid in the stomach that is normal may cause a burning sensation and even eructation (sudden escape of gas from the mouth or coming up of the undigested matter from the stomach). Over burdening of the stomach, the root cause of indigestion has to be avoided in order to start the treatment.
CONSTIPATION:-
Constipation is considered the main culprit to the misery of piles. Constipation is a condition in which the bowels are opened too seldom or incompletely. The patient may pass infrequent and hard, dry stools. The main symptom is the desire to void the stools but the inability to do so. It is an extremely irritating condition but easy to deal with if you go about the treatment in the right manner. It is a common complaint and back large number of persons depends on laxatives and even purgatives to clear their bowels. You will find that the largest sale is of remedies to relive constipation. And if you count the cost of cigarettes, cigars, tea & coffee taken under the mistaken belief that it will help activate the bowels, the money spent on the treatment of this complaint would be back stupendous sum. Most of the who suffer from constipation do not understand the way human body functions. It leads to many other symptoms like heaviness and headaches lethargy loss of appetite insomnia and apathy and above all piles. As a matter of fact any disease is an indication of mal functioning of the machine that is the human body and costiveness is the grandmother of all ailments.
If your body is unable to expel the waste matter that remain after the digestive organs have taken out the essential elements necessary for the sustenance of the human body, it leads to further putrefaction and gases harmful for its functioning.
After the food has been digestion it passes into the colon and that part of the body has a great capacity for absorption of liquids. If it loses its tone, thatt is if its muscles become weak or inactive the stools have a tendency to adhere to it and continue to putrefy leading flatulence and other and other symptoms. Retention of stools could lead to poisoning of the whole system.
How does a purgative or laxative act?
Constipation is an unnatural & abnormal condition. Nature has endowed the intestines with the capacity to void the waste matter that remains after food has been digested.
To day modern medicine recognizes what the alternative medicinal systems like unani & Ayurved has done thousands of years back that piles is caused primarily by constipation. Neglected constipation will lead to piles.