For natural anxiety remedies to be effective, you must commit to changing your diet and life style. This particularly includes changing eating and living behaviors to remove mental and physical causes that increase your anxiety as discussed in the previous article.
The physical causes must be removed prior to beginning natural and herbal remedies for anxiety. In addition, the mental causes must be addressed with the physical treatment. Along with seeing a psychologist, you can significantly benefit by joining a local self help or support group and receive help by listening and sharing problems and achievements with each other.
Natural remedies for anxiety include the following suggestions:
Diet Modification:
- Always eat warm cooked food with a table spoon of olive oil (per day)
- No ice or ice cold drinks
- Eat 2-3 ounces of mixed nuts per day. Almonds should be soaked overnight in water, peeled and taken in the morning
Life Style Modification:
- Organize your day- make a list of things to do and stick to them (have ONLY reasonable #s on to do list)
- Perform oil massage 2 -3 times per week with cold pressed organic sesame oil. Leave oil on for 20-30 minutes before taking shower
- Aerobics or fast paced exercise NO MORE than 2-3 times per week
- Include meditation and yoga exercises in your daily morning routine (20-30 minutes be fine)
Supplements and Herbal Anxiety Remedies
- Take Vitamin B12 and 2000mg of fish oil daily after a meal
- Take 1000mg of Ashwagandha herb with warm milk during breakfast and 1000mg with dinner.
- Take 1000mg of Shankpushpi herb before bedtime with warm milk. If you have trouble sleeping, you can increase the amount up to 3000mg
The herbal remedies for anxiety suggested are rejuvenating, relaxing, and not stimulating. They are nerve tonic for nervous exhaustion with no side effects. They promote tranquility without dulling the mind. DO CONSULT with your Ayurvedic practitioner and physician before making changes in your regimen. Be Well!
Physical signs of stress; headaches, chest agony, racing heart, sore eyes, ill stomach, panic, weak legs, disturbing thoughts, visual nightmares, shivering sensations, and tremors.
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Hi Rakesh,
Thank you for your wonderful articles! I noticed that you recommend that one takes the herbs mentioned above with milk. I was wondering what your stance is on milk. As a holistic nutritionist, we are taught that milk is ‘bad’, more specifically, it is mucous forming and many don’t have the enzymes to digest. Do you agree? Or do you think that anti-dairy or is this overhyped? Thank you for your time.
Victoria: For most people milk is fine. However, if you have “Kapha” constitution of “Kapha” aggravation, you want to avoid milk. Check out other articles to find your body constitution. In the case of anxiety, milk becomes excellent source of giving heaviness and grounding effect. Our culture is riddled with misinformation on which diet and foods to take and that inadvertently contributes to our anxiety. Hope this helps. Be Well! Rakesh