Ayurvedic Tips for Diabetes and depression

DIABETES AND DEPRESSION Ayurvedic Tips

These exams and tests can help your doctor to link or dissociate problems that could be causing your depression symptoms, and perform a diagnosis and check for any related complications:

• Physical exam: Your doctor will assess your overall health and try to identify any underlying physical health problem.
• Lab tests: Your doctor may do a complete blood count or thyroid test to make sure it's working properly.
• Psychological evaluation: Your doctor may ask about your symptoms, thoughts, feelings and behaviour patterns. You may be asked to fill out a set of questions to help answer these questions.

Diet Recommendations (Aahar)

Gruel (type of cereal made up of oat, wheat and flour/rice) should be given for three days, followed by barley powder (parched) mixed with water only for the next three days. The physician may also give barley which is boiled and cooled. The diet of the patient should be tasty, appetising and salutary.⁶

Lifestyle changes (Vihar)

Start exercising regularly. Walking, swimming, running or yogasanas are highly beneficial.

Include pranayama (breathing exercise) in your daily routine.

Yoga Therapy

‘Yoga moksho pravarkak’ i.e. by Yoga practice, one can achieve a state of Moksha. The process of increasing Sattva and reducing Raja and Tama leading to Karmakshaya (loss of deeds) is way of attaining Moksha.⁶

Tadasana (Palm tree pose)

Relaxation therapy

It is also an important therapy. It means of getting free from stress which is supposed to be a major causative factor of mental illness.^4,5