Are you suffering from severe abdominal pain? Do you experience unexplainable weight loss? Then there may be a chance of Crohn’s disease. Have you ever wondered to know the causes, and symptoms of Crohn’s disease?
Lets us discuss the causes and symptoms along with the dietary changes that influence Crohn’s disease.

What is Crohn’s disease?

Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory disease. The disease can cause swelling in the digestive tract, which leads to abdominal pain, severe diarrhea, fatigue, malnutrition, and weight loss.

There is no permanent cure for Crohn’s disease but some changes in diet change minimize the cause and symptoms of Crohn’s disease. Symptoms of Crohn’s disease Any part of the small intestine or large intestine can be involved in Crohn’s disease.

The symptom of Crohn’s disease include:

• Diarrhea
• Fever
• Fatigue
• Abdominal pain and stomach cramps
• Blood in stool
• Mouth Sores
• Blood in stool
• Weight loss and loss in appetite
• Inflammation of skin, eyes, and joints
• Iron deficiency

Causes of Crohn’s disease

The exact cause of Crohn’s disease remains unknown. Scientists have previously thought that stress and anxiety can be the major cause of Crohn’s disease, but they identified that several factors cause Crohn’s disease. They are:

• Genes and Family history 
• Environmental Factor
• The body’s tendency to overreact to normal bacteria in the intestine.
•  Smoking
• This occurs in people from the age group of 15-35

What does Ayurveda say about Crohn’s disease?

According to Ayurveda vitiated pitta dosha is responsible for the causes of inflammation and results in Crohn’s disease. When the digestive tract is inflamed it leads to symptoms as discussed above. This inflammation is also a major cause of pitta vitiation.

Ayurvedic diet for Crohn’s disease

The Ayurvedic diet mainly contains three major substances. They are Rasa, Guna, and Vipaka. The rasa is the substance of the food, the guna is the property of the food and the vipaka is the final transformation.

The food that is based on Rasa includes:

Kashaya:

Kashaya is an ayurvedic juice that is used in the ayurvedic diet. It can be consumed with water and can also often be mixed with medicines as well. Chiruvilwadi kashaya can be used to treat problems related to bowel movement and stool.

Madhura:

The madhura rasa is a sweet rasa that is used to balance the fire in the pitta. Foods such as wheat, ghee, rice, milk, sugar, and dates belong to this rasa. This kind of food increases pitta and kapha and decreases Vata dosha.

Katu:

Ayurveda identifies 6 predominant tastes such as sweet, sour, salty, bitter, astringent, and pungent. These foods can be given as madhura, amla, lavana, tikta, kashaya, and katu. This rasa is a mixer of six rasas and helps in curing Crohn’s disease.

The foods that are based on Guna include:

Laghu: 

The laghu includes 5 brihat panchamoola, that is bilva, agnimantha, kashmari, shynoka, and patala. These 5 brihat are obtained from large trees. 5 laghu panchamoola consist of sarivan, kantakari, shalaparni, prishniparni, and gokhru. These laghu panchamoola are obtained from smaller shrubs.

Dipana:

Dipana is an ayurvedic drink that is taken before a meal with the intention of kindling agni to come out before a meal. It helps to activate the enzymes that are responsible for indigestion.

Panchana:

Panchana is a herbal medicine that is widely used in Ayurveda. This herbal medicine is taken after the meal. Panchana is used to remove toxic waste from the body. Which is the byproduct of undigested food.

The food that is based on vipaka includes

Ushana: 

Ushana is widely used for curing vata-based problems. Ushana is the inherent property of pitta, symbolizing both fires inside and outside of the body. Ushana is used to participate in the pathogenesis to give the features such as burning, sour eructation, and fever. This process of generating heat helps cure Crohn’s disease.

Veerya: 

This is the potential to enable the active principle of dravya. It is a very important herbal drug that improves the therapeutic property of medical herbs. Therefore it plays an important role in ayurvedic treatment principles.

Summary: 

Therefore, Crohn’s disease is a dangerous disease that is caused due to family history. There is no permanent cure for this disease but it can be influenced or can be controlled by making some dietary changes using ayurveda. Diseases can be reduced and controlled using ayurvedic diets.