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Loss of Appetite

Conditions

• It occurs to gastritis or infection of the digestive track ( H-pylori) disorders such as gastroenteritis & obstruction of the digestive tract.
• Depression can cause lack of desire for food (commonly seen in Ayurvedic community)
• Look for any drug history of anti TB drugs, anti Hypertensives certain cardiac drugs like digitalis, all of these can produce anorexia.

• In Children –               Worm infestation
• In female  –                Pregnancy

• (if there is loss appetite or indigestion, think of modern drugs that produce these conditions)always take psychiatric history, sleep pattern, hotel food intake etc., into consideration.
• Take the history of alcoholism, tobacco, and smoking.
• In adults, more than 50 years of age with persistent anorexia and weight loss think about CA.
• If there is evening rise of temperature with weight loss or a cough it may be TB
• In acute origin with progressive anorexia, think of Hepatitis or it will develop after a few days (watch for it).
• Look for anemia.

In school going children, nausea and anorexia are mostly psychological but they eat well during holidays ( for eating chocolates, chips and ice cream there is no dyspepsia ). There is no dyspepsia in summer holidays.

Diagnosis

• Examine the patient in clear sunlight to rule our jaundice and Anemia.
• Don’s examined with a weak battery torch light.  Many doctors do not change old batteries in time.
• Rule out chest TB by taking chest X-ray . TC,DC, and Mantoux or Gold TB feron.

Loss Of Appetite Ayurveda Treatment India

Treatment Principle for loss of Appetite

• vrana ropana cikitsa
• tikta kasaya rasa pradhana ousadhas
• in later phase, tikta madhura rasa
• always thinking dosic ters and treat
• in chronic ulcers also, there will be anorexia. Son, in order to improve the agni never select katu rasa but select onlyh tikta rasa.  Katu rasa may worsen the problem. Katu rasam drugs should be only selected when there is non-ulcer dyspepsia.

Treatment for mandagni in children

The medicines told in the context of non-ulcer dyspepsia can be utilized in this context. Anorexia because of the individual condition is dealt under that diseases separately.