How to Use Triphala For Weight Loss, Constipation and Intestinal Cleansing
Most weight loss programs focus on cutting calories and dietary fat, eating less food and doing more exercise.
With obesity rates at record levels and climbing it’s clear that these approaches aren’t working for many people.
What if there was a completely different way to lose weight with the Ayurvedic preparation triphala? One that focused first on clearing out the digestive system to perform at it’s best.
Constipation, The Colon and Weight Gain
Modern packaged meals, loaded with processed meats and a range of unnatural ingredients, are often difficult to digest properly.
This can lead to constipation, where stools become backed up within the colon. Compacted waste matter can also be trapped within the folds of the lower intestine.
This compacted waste is a prime breeding ground for parasites and can be the pathway for toxic compounds to enter the circulatory system. It’s not a pleasant topic, but it’s an important one if you’re interested in losing weight and improving your wellness and wellbeing.
A poorly functioning digestive system means you won’t be getting as much nutrition from the food you eat. This in turn stimulates hunger, leading to weight gain, as well as general tiredness and the feeling of being run down.
Longer-term, the implications are much more serious. It has been said that all disease starts in the gut. That may be hard to verify but it’s clear that good health is very difficult to achieve without good digestion.
That’s where using triphala powder for weight loss can help.
Natural Internal Cleanser
Triphala is an ancient Ayurvedic preparation of 3 dried fruits — amalaki, bibhitaki and haritaki — with body cleansing and rejuvenating properties.
Taken in a certain way and at a certain time, it is a highly effective digestive system cleanser, gently clearing away trapped waste products and tonifying the colon.
Importantly, this herbal treatment doesn’t just clear out your system, it also nourishes and rejuvenates the membrane lining of the gastrointestinal tract.
Triphala churna has many other beneficial effects on your body, including cleansing the liver and kidneys and purifying the bloodstream.
As a precaution though, it should not be used by pregnant women. People taking prescriptions should check with their GP first as well.
Let’s look at how to take triphala powder to reduce excess body fat and two other ways it can support your weight loss goals. 
How to Use Triphala as a Weight Loss Aid
Practitioners of Ayurveda recommend taking triphala churna in hot water as a tea. They believe it is important to taste the mixture to get its full benefits and start off the positive effect it has on your digestive process.
To be honest, the tea doesn’t taste that great when you first start. Especially to Western taste buds, conditioned to expect everything to be sweet. But if losing weight is important to you, can you handle downing something that isn’t saturated in fattening sugar?
Interestingly, after a while it seems to lose its bitterness and becomes much more palatable. Perhaps this is due to the balance of tastes said to be present in triphala. According to Ayurvedic theory, we taste what we most need when we are out of balance.
If you think the taste could stop you using it regularly then triphala tablets and capsules are available. Use them at the same times as the powder recommended below.
How to Make Triphala Tea
- If you’re making triphala tea, start by adding a level teaspoon of high quality organic powder to a cup of hot but not boiling water (turn off the kettle before it boils). Don’t add any sugar or honey.
- Stir it up well then let it sit for at least 20 minutes, preferably an hour or more. This allows the beneficial compounds really infuse into the water.
- Drink it straight down and you won’t taste it that much. When you take triphala for weight loss there’s no need to sip it slowly.
- Drink the tea both before bed and again first thing in the morning. The best times are at least 2 hours after dinner and at least half an hour before breakfast. For a more detailed description of how make it see the page on how to take triphala for digestive health.
It’s best to wait until you’ve been to the bathroom before having breakfast when taking triphala tea in the mornings. This shouldn’t be a problem if you had it before going to bed.
Triphala tends to stimulate the urge to go to the toilet quite quickly when taken in the morning as well. If you know you have to eat and be out the front door quickly then having this weight loss tea only before bed may be more preferable.
2 Ways Triphala Churna Helps You Weigh Less
You may be surprised at just how effective clearing out your system with triphala is at helping you to lose weight. There is one obvious reason for this and another not so obvious one.
Most people who start an effective cleanse using triphala tea drop a few pounds quite quickly, just from the amount of crap they are clearing out of their digestive system, particularly the colon.
That’s a good start, but longer-term a properly functioning digestive system means your body is getting the nutrients it needs more easily, so it doesn’t tend to stimulate hunger as much.
If your body has poor digestion and assimilation, you may eat a lot of food but not get the important minerals, vitamins and other nutrients you need. Your body knows it requires these substances to operate effectively and stimulates more hunger in an attempt to get them. 
This doesn’t change the fact that you’re not absorbing the nutrients you need. But you end up eating more food anyway, usually high carbohydrate processed foods.
These simple carbohydrates are absorbed very quickly and unfortunately are very easily converted to and stored as body fat.
Using triphala regularly can help break this weight gain cycle by getting your digestive system working again to absorb the nutrition you need. This naturally reduces hunger due to a lack of nutrition.
At the same time, it’s very important to support it with plenty of fruits and veggies, greens, berries, nuts, seeds and slow digesting fruits, along with healthy protein sources.
Any of the superfoods featured on this site are a good example of a high nutrient food that satisfies hunger in much smaller amounts than supermarket junk foods.
Another effective option, particularly if you are short on time, is to take a high quality superfood powder like Organifi Green Juice in the morning before breakfast.
Maintaining Digestive Health for a Better Body
The majority of people find that once their digestive systems are working again, and they are eating predominantly healthy food, the hunger cravings they used to have disappear.
No counting calories. No starving yourself. Neither of these work long-term.
Exercise is important, particularly first thing before breakfast if you really want to maximize the fat burning potential.
Ultimately though, effective digestion, assimilation and elimination are the essential first steps to long-term weight loss.
With this in mind, cleansing to lose weight with triphala churna has to be one of the simplest and best way to get that started. Unlike the myriad of fat burning products out there, this Ayurvedic remedy is completely natural and relatively inexpensive.
I hope you’ll try triphala for weight loss and better digestive health. Many people have found it highly beneficial in getting to their ideal body weight naturally.
It also has the added benefit of improving your intestinal environment over time and relieving common digestive problems like constipation.