Mudras for Healing -Part-10-Vaayu Mudra

Vayu mudra

This mudra is practiced for removing the excess and harmful 'wind' in the body.
It is useful for many diseases.The index finger is pressed on the base of the thumb and the thumb is pressed over the index finger.The other fingers are kept straight.
This must be practiced for 15 minutes twice or thrice daily and must be stopped once the symptoms disappear.
Benefits:

1. This immediately removes problems from excess gas in the stomach,bloated feeling and flatulence and constipation.
2. This is a very good mudra for reducing knee pains and joint pains.
3. It is also good for peple who are suffering from vata pains .
4. This mudra benefits people who are anxious all the time about little things,nervousness,it improves the mental strength,sleeplessness,head spinning.
5. It works well even for back pain if it is out of vata dosha and also for people who are suffering from pains due to decrease in the  synovial fluid( which lubricates the joints), and for creaking  noises of bones.
6. This also normalises the working of the ear to a certain extent.
7. This reduces the involuntary twitching of the eyelids
8. It also reduces hiccoughs
9. It also helps and makes the skin normal if it is very flaky and dry.
10. this also works well for chipping of nails due to vata doshas and brittle hair

An ayurvedic cure for dizziness

Dizziness has various causes but the one due to excess pitta in the body creates a kind of illusion that the sky and everything around the person is spinning.
This can be easily cured with the remedy given below.
Take 20 gm of cowhage root.Wash and grind it with water.Now boil this paste with 250 ml water till it reduces to half its volume.Filter and add 30 gm of pure Cow's ghee and drink this 2 times a day for 3 days.The problem disappears.
-As told by Panditha Elchuri.

A good cure for head spinning

1.Grate fresh ginger and squeeze the juice out of the pulp.Take 20 ml of this juice and mix it with 5 - 10 ml of tulsi leaves juice and add honey to this mixture.when this is taken orally it reduces the spinning sensation of the head.
2. Take equal quantities of fennel powder(somph powder) and rock candy sugar (mishri) powder.Mix and store.Take 2-5 gm of this powder thrice a day .This helps the person with this problem.