Health and Fitness

The smoke of the burning leaves is supposed to cure hiccups and some throat troubles and the kernel is effective against diarrhoea and asthma. Baked and sugared pulp is given to patients of cholera and plague. The bark is a source of resins and gum. The gum and the resinous substance exuded by the stem-end of the harvested fruit are mixed with limejuice and given in cases of scabies and cutaneous afflictions.

Few fruits contain as much vitamin A as the mangoes, in addition to having a high content of vitamin C.

Medical significance of mango and how to use mango as medicine:

1. Spleen enlargement: Add 1 spoon honey to a teacup of ripe mango pulp. Take thrice a day.
2. Indigestion and liver trouble: Suck a ripe mango and top it with a glass of milk.
3. Baldness: Rub on the scalp 1 tea spoon oil in which raw mangoes have been preserved for over one year.
4. General weakness: Sprinkle the following on a platter of mango slices: 1 spoon honey, a pinch of saffron, cardamom and rose water. Take twice daily.
5. Heat exhaustion, heat stroke: Cook an unripe fruit in hot ashes. Extract the pulp and mix with water and 1 tea spoon sugar and take.
6. Prickly heat: Boil 2 raw mangoes in 2 teacups water. Cool. Squeeze out the pulp. Add salt or sugar or both to taste. Drink at least once a day.

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Pineapple is one of the juicy fruits and personally I like pineapple a lot and also it is the favorite fruit of my mom. There are many medical usefulness of pineapple like other fruits. The fruit contains vitamin C, iron and other minerals. It acts as an effective laxative. It is good for constipation and poor digestion. The pineapple helps to digest proteins.

It is a tonic and rejuvenative. Juice of the unripe fruit causes uterine contractions and should not be given to a pregnant woman. Juice of the ripe fruit cures gastric irritability in fever and is very helpful in jaundice.

High in vitamin C the pineapple is considered to be a protective fruit.

Medical significance of Pineapple:

1. Fresh pineapple juice contains an enzyme, which aids in digestion.
2. The fruit is also antihelminthic in nature, that is, it helps in getting rid of intestinal worms.
3. Juice from unripe fruits acts as a strong purgative, useful in constipation.
4. Pineapple pieces eaten fresh with salt and pepper help to get rid of indigestion.
5. To get rid of kidney stones, pineapple juice should be taken every morning for a month.

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Fig (Anjir) has many useful medical significances and fig juice is good for destroying intestinal parasites. It has a definite laxative effect and a high alkalinity. The laxative effect is due to the bulk of seeds and fibre combined with mucin and pectin present in the juice. A decoction of dried figs is an excellent mouthwash for sore throat and aphthous complaints of the mouth.

They are best eaten raw and fresh. They are a high calcium food, high in carbohydrates, which gets converted into energy very quickly. They are also known to have some anti-cancer properties.

How can you use fig as medicine:

1. Anaemia: Soak 2 or 3 dried figs overnight in 1 teacup water. Eat them along with milk the next morning, and continue for a month.

2. Diabetes: Eat 1 spoon seeds of the fig, separated from the pulp, along with 1 spoon honey every day for a few weeks.

3. Inflammation of spleen: Eat 2 or 3 figs along with 1 teacup curd twice a day for a few weeks.

4. Constipation: Take 2 or 3 figs after each meal.

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The bel fruit is very useful in treating chronic diarrhoea and dysentery, particularly for patients having diarrhoea alternating with spells of constipation. Sharbat prepared from the pulp of the fruits is useful as a soothing agent for the intestines of patients who have just recovered from bacillary dysentry. The unripe or half ripe fruits improve appetite and digestion.

As Medicine:

1. Constipation, dyspepsia and mouth ulcers: Mix the pulp of a fruit with jaggery and eat once a day.
2. Dysentery: Take 1 teacup fruit pulp twice a day.
3. Ulcer in stomach: Mix 1 teacup pulp with 1 spoon sugar and eat early morning on an empty stomach for 3 days.
4. Piles, haemorrhoids: Take an unripe fruit and pound it along with 1 spoon each dried ginger and saunf and soak these in 4 teacups of water and sip this water 3 to 4 times a day.

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