How to Create Digestive Health

with Ayurveda

Jennifer Maklan, AP
What You’ll Learn
1. Why holistic remedies do not work
2. How digestive disorders are
managed with Ayurveda
3. The most needed digestive health
habits to build a solid foundation of
health
4. How the menstrual cycle is affected
by digestive health problems
5. What you can do to ease pain and
cramps

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Why Holistic Remedies Don’t Work
 Remedies are temporary fixes
 Remedies don’t address the root cause of the problem
 Remedies don’t address the contributing causes
 Remedies don’t address lifestyle habits and poor routines
 If not properly utilized, remedies can cause harm

 What then is needed for holistic healing?

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A Holistic Framework
1. An understanding of health
2. An understanding of proper
functioning and what impedes
proper functioning
3. A method to reestablish health

Dietary adjustments (temporary)

Restructuring of routine
Body therapies in sequence
Processing impurities
Elimination of waste

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Jennifer Maklan, AP
• Chattanooga Ayurveda
• Ayurveda Next Door
• Shirodhara therapy
• Arts

“It’s important to understand your own body type. It

impacts your knowledge and acceptance of self and
others. It helps to build harmonious relationships and
provides a deeper understanding of health needs.”

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The Ayurvedic Approach: My 2-Part Protocol
Remove contributing causes Get personalized guidance
 Avoid excess fasting
 Don’t eat when indigested
 Stop eating at the first burp
 Establish a regular routine
 Eat wholesome foods only
“Health should be tailored
 Avoid heavy foods to each individual.
 Avoid cold / chilled / frozen One prescription for all will
 Watch out for contamination
 Avoid extreme traveling
not do.”
 Never suppress your natural urges – Jennifer Maklan, AP
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What you get with a personalized approach
 Changes to diet or a dietary protocol, usually temporary
 Formulations and / or simple herbal compounds
 Health coaching – guidance to end bad habits and adopt new
routines
 At-home body therapies like dry powder massage, full body
massage, head massage

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The most needed digestive health habits….
 Avoid excess fasting
 Don’t eat when indigested
 Stop eating at the first burp
 Establish a regular routine
 Eat wholesome foods only
 Avoid heavy foods
 Avoid cold / chilled / frozen
 Watch out for contamination
 Avoid extreme traveling
 Never suppress your natural urges

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Additional tips…
1. Do not laugh or talk while eating
2. Do not drink ice cold beverages
3. Sit down to eat
4. Walk 100 steps after eating
5. Be grateful for the food that’s given
to you
6. Don’t extinguish your agni
7. Avoid incompatible foods

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Which foods are
incompatible?
1. Honey that is cooked – instead, take
honey raw or in warm beverages.
2. Fruit and dairy – goodbye yogurt-
based smoothies!
3. Dairy and fish – sorry, no chowder
allowed!
4. Cold foods together with hot foods
– it’s too confusing!

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Why Your Symptoms are Worse During Your
Period
What is a digestive disorder?
 When food is not properly
digested and passes
through the GI tract
 There is constipation or
loose stool, or a mix
Menstruation
 Blood is formed through the
process of digestion
 Improper color
 Clotting
 Digestive symptoms become
worse
 Structural issues like cysts
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Three Types of Disordered Menses
1. Kapha type 2. Pitta type
 Thick discharge  Frequent menses
 Strands  Softer stool
 Dull, heavy pain  Fleshy smell during menses
 White discharge between  Yellowish tinge
periods  Headache
 Heavy clotting and pain

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3. Vata type
• Scanty elimination
• Straining
• Dryness of body
• Shifting desire for hot and cold
• Menstrual flow looks ashy
• Back pain
• Irregularity
• Clotting and pain

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Make menses easier
• Follow the guidelines for period-health (no
sex during menses, use pads, no exercise,
avoid conflict and drama, no oil massage,
no long showers, etc.)
• For kapha and vata pains: one-inch of fresh
ginger boiled in 4 cups of water reduced to
one cup. Add jaggery, sucanat, or molasses.
• For pitta pains: boil cardamom, cloves,
sugar and rose petals in 4 cups water
reduced to one cup.

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Please remember…
1. Get to know your Body Type to
build meaningful relationships with
yourself and others
2. Remedies can be helpful
temporarily but won’t provide a
long-term solution
3. Follow the rules for good digestion
and menstrual health
4. Enjoy your self! Enjoy your food!

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Upcoming Webinars
 “Summer Health” – Susan Weis-Bohlen
 “Menstrual Irregularities” – Emma Landau
 “How to get Good Sleep” – Jennifer Maklan
 “Easy Menopause with Ayurveda” – Meenakshi Gupta

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