Yoga movements for constipation

Nowadays, due to the lack of vitamins, water or exercise is too little, intestinal peristalsis will become slow, very easy to appear constipation phenomenon. Especially for women, constipation is more frequent if they are under pressure from study and work and are sedentary. So can doing yoga cure constipation? Constipation can practice what yoga movements to relieve it?

Can yoga cure constipation?

Yoga can help relieve constipation. Many yoga poses can enhance abdominal pressure, promote bowel movement and help accelerate the elimination of toxins and feces from the body. For example, the yoga bow pose, rotation pose, pigeon pose, etc., are good constipation treatment asanas.

Bow Pose for Constipation

Effect: It can enhance abdominal strength, increase abdominal pressure and promote bowel movement to excrete feces. Step1: Lie on the ground and grab your ankles with both hands. Inhale, lift the feet slowly. Step2: Exhale while tilting your head back, keeping your head and feet maximally lifted upward. After 2 deep breaths, inhale the body downward, exhale while relaxing the arms, return to the initial movement, and close your eyes to adjust your breath.

Rotational pose for constipation

Effect: It strengthens the internal organs and enhances blood flow, while enhancing abdominal squeezing, which is effective in treating constipation, headache and body fatigue. Step1: Spread your legs shoulder-width apart, cross your fingers with both hands, reverse them and stretch them upwards over your head, and keep pushing them upwards. At this point, the eyes on the back of the hands. Step2: Exhale while bending the upper body to the left and then down. Step3: When the hands are close to the ground, take one deep breath. Then exhale, bend the upper body to the right side and then up. In this process, the arms and legs should not be bent. Change the action on one side and repeat the whole set of actions 3-5 times.

Pigeon pose for constipation

Effect: This action can stretch the abdomen, promote blood flow in the pelvis, and also help eliminate the flab in the rib cage. Step1: Sit down and extend your left leg backwards as far as possible. Step2: Grab your left foot with your left hand and exhale to lift your left foot up. Hold the posture and breathe deeply, each time you exhale pull the left foot to the side of the body a little until your limit. Then repeat the action on the other side.

Pelvic pose for constipation

Effect: This action can promote the excretion of intestinal waste, accelerate the flow of Qi and blood, and also promote the secretion of female hormones, which has a better effect on the treatment of infertility and dysmenorrhea. Step1: bright foot plate sitting opposite each other, cross your hands to pull the palms of your feet together to the body, knees on the ground. Step2: straighten the waist, inhale to keep the upper body straight, and then down, so that the abdomen as close as possible to the palms of the feet, feel the squeeze of the abdomen. Step3: Keep the chin, chest and abdomen as close to the ground as possible while tightening the anus and pausing for 2-3 breaths. Inhale as you lift your upper body to end the movement.