AYURVEDA PERSPECTIVE ON HEART PALPITATIONS

Heart palpitations are defined as undue awareness of one's heartbeat. If you are sitting in the car or walking down the street, and suddenly feel your heart beating in your chest, you are experiencing heart palpitations. Your heart may feel fast, slow, pounding, like it's skipping beats, or simply beating at a normal rate. Your heart beats on its own all day, every day. When you experience heart palpitations, you may also notice shortened, quick breaths, chills, or a light sweat.

Causes

A heart palpitation may occur due to stress or anxiety. A recent trauma or ongoing emotional challenge can make your heart race.

When enough of your heart tissue has been damaged by small heart attacks, smoking, or vascular inflammation, arrhythmias may result. This happens when nerves attempt to stimulate the damaged issue.

Some medical conditions and medications also cause palpitations. If your palpitations accompany dizziness, fainting, shortness of breath, or chest pain, please contact your doctor.

• Stress
• Anxiety
• Caffeine
• Pregnancy
• Underlying Heart Disease
• Low Blood Sugar
• Anemia
• Hypothyroid
• Constipation
• Gas, Bloating, Indigestion
• Dehydration

Ayurvedic Treatment Approach

Simple stress reduction practices can calm down palpitations that are due to stress and anxiety. These include eating warm meals at regular times, getting enough rest, gentle breathing exercises, calming treatments like shirodhara and acupuncture. Warm, nourishing soups and Gold Milk also create the calm, cozy feeling that soothes a racing heart.

Disclaimer: 'Heart Palpitations' could be serious and should be checked by a medical doctor.

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Augment your diet with these specially chosen ingredients below which may be useful for 'Heart Palpitations'. Individual results vary depending the cause of your imbalance and by constitution. Please research the ingredients below to find which are most helpful for you, and check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine. Please check with your medical doctor before making any changes to your health & wellness routine, and for the proper use of these products.

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DISCLAIMER: The pathogenesis of each person's condition is unique, and so the diet must be fit to the individual and the unique root causes of the condition in your body. The information on this page is for educational purposes only and should not be used to treat a medical condition. It is not a substitute for medical care. Please check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.

Everything you eat has an effect on your body, which Ayurveda categorizes in a simple and easy way, using biocharacteristics (gunas). Biocharacteristics are qualities (like cold and hot) that describe the effect a food or herb has on your body. Cooling foods like cucumber, decrease metabolism. Heating foods like chili pepper, stimulate your body and increase metabolism. For 'Heart Palpitations', you should select foods with the following biocharacteristics. Individual results will vary, based on your body type and the root cause of your imbalance.

Mind, Stress & Sleep:

Boosts Gaba

BOOSTS-GABA

GABA, or gamma-aminobutyric acid, reduces nerve excitability. It is the body's primary inhibitory neurotransmitter. Thus, it promotes relaxation, calm, and sleep.

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Nervine

NERVINE

Balances the nervous system. They can help with stress, memory, early alzheimer's, and even chronic pain. Often they are aromatic in nature.

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Sedative

SEDATIVE

Sedative herbs create a sense of calm in the mind and body by specifically calming or quieting the nervous system. Excellent for anxiety, stress and chronic pain.

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Energy Vitality:

Nutritive

NUTRITIVE

An herb that is strengthening and nourishing.

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Tonic

TONIC

A tonic herb restores function through strengthening tissue. This can happen through a combination of nourishing the tissue, and invigorating tissue metabolism. The tonic should not be withering, as in caffeine.

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Heart & Circulation:

Calms Heart

CALMS-HEART

An herb that literally calms the heart. These herbs are helpful in the treatment of anxiety, sadness, depression, or other emotional imbalances in the heart. Related to the Chinese Herbal Category 'calms spirit.'

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Cardiac Tonic

CARDIAC-TONIC

Strengthens and tones the heart (heart-tonic). Cardiac tonics are used to treat a wide range of heart issues from arrhythmia, to cardiac insufficiency.

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Rebuild Electrolytes

REBUILD-ELECTROLYTES

Substances that increase your electrolyte balance. Electrolytes help you retain water, keep your palate moist, and truly quench your thirst.

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Rebuilds Fluids

REBUILDS-FLUIDS

Herbs or substances that create moisture in the body and increase fluids.

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Strength, Muscle Health:

Muscle Relaxant

MUSCLE-RELAXANT

Herbs that relax muscles. Helpful for chronic pain or tension as well as healing from physical trauma.

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Muscle Tonic

MUSCLE-TONIC

Herbs that strengthen and tone muscle tissue. Helpful for people recovering from long term illness and debility, or after a sprain.

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Ojas

OJAS

Ojas is the essence of healthy tissue, immunity, stable energy and happiness. Substances that improve ojas are recommended after long-term illness, debility, emotional and physical trauma, and even sadness.

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Other:

Cleanse And Detox

Constituents:

Cardiac Glycosides

CARDIAC-GLYCOSIDES

Cardiac glycosides disrupt the sodium potassium pump, causing stronger heart contractions.

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HOW TO ADDRESS ISSUES IN STAGE OF DISEASE #3

HEART PALPITATIONS IS IN STAGE OF DISEASE #3 - ATTACKING TISSUE

If you have symptoms in this category it means that your imbalances are becoming stronger and weakening your body's resistance. Most people have a weakness in one or more organs. These areas of weakness are the 'weak link in the chain.' They are first to succumb when an imbalance reaches a tipping point. Repairing imbalances in this category often represent your last opportunity to prevent disease. At any moment, these imbalances could overwhelm weakened tissue and develop into a disease. You may feel pain or discomfort in the weakened area. At this stage you will need to support the weakened tissue with specialized foods and herbs for the weakened tissue. (See all disease stages on JB)

GET MY FREE AYURVEDA BODY MAP According to Ayurveda, one or more of the following doshas and biocharacteristics may aggravate 'Heart Palpitations'. If you have an excess of one of these doshas or biocharacteristics below, Ayurveda recommends reducing foods and lifestyle habits that aggravate them. Click on the biocharacteristic to learn what foods and lifestyle habits should be reduced.

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The following symptoms & habits may be related to 'Heart Palpitations'. See your quiz results for a computerized assessment of your body type. Please click on the symptoms below to learn more about them. On average the biocharacteristics of people reporting Heart Palpitations were more aggravated than 64% of other symptoms. From the 6,505 people who reported Heart Palpitations average deviation in biocharacteristic levels were the following:

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