Health and Fitness

Turmeric is well known for its medicine properties and there are many usefulness of turmeric in the day-to-day life. Turmeric (Haldi) is a root from the ginger family. It is an ideal disinfectant and an internal antiseptic. It arrests cholesteral problems, eliminates toxins and cools down the digestive and circulatory systems.

As medicine, you can use turmeric in the following ways:

1. Muscle Strain: Heat ginger paste with turmeric paste (1:1) and apply. Intestinal worms: Take quarter spoon turmeric along with a glass of hot water 2 or 5 times daily.

2. Common cold and blocked nose: Add 1 spoon turmeric powder to boiling water. Inhale the vapor and this is a very common practice and it really works for me.

3. Dry Cough and Sore throat: Drink a pinch of turmeric powder in a cup of hot milk at bedtime.

4. Common Cold: Mix 1 spoon turmeric powder along with quarter spoon ajwain powder in 3 teacups hot water. Allow to cool and take 1 spoon of this decoction along with 1 spoon honey twice daily for a few days.

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People always say that spices are not good for health. Well, it is true that spices are not good for health if you start taking them with food regularly but there are good medical significance of some of the spices if you use them in a proper way.

Here I am sharing some of the good points of Asafoetida (Hing) if it is used in proper manner. It is a very useful remedy for relieving spasms and indigestion, flatulent colic, cholera and whooping cough. It is stimulant for respiratory and nervous systems and is very effective in pneumonia and bronchitis in children. It is applied externally on the stomach to stimulate the intestines. Asafoetida is known to have some sedative properties and its possible use in heart diseases has been suggested.

There are some tips on how to use Asafoetida as medicine:

1. Diabetes: Mix a quarter spoon of Asafoetida powder in 2 spoons bitter gourd juice and take twice a day.

2. Indigestion: Mix a quarter spoon of Asafoetida powder with a ripe banana and eat.

3. Stomachache: Dissolve 1 spoon Asafoetida in one teacup hot water. Drench a cloth pad and foment the abdominal region.

4. Kidney Problems: Mix a quater spoon hing in 2 spoons fresh ginger juice. And a pinch of salth and sip.

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Most of the people know that peach boost up laxative effect. It is because peach has high sugar and water content and hence has a very good laxative effect. Peaches are wonderful in alkalising the blood stream and stimulate the digestive juices. They can be used to regulate the bowel and build the blood. Peaches are an excellent food for elderly people, because the body assimilates this food very easily. Because they are easy to digest, very ripe peaches can be eaten in cases of ulcers of the stomach or inflammation of the bowel, and also in cases of colitis.

Peaches are wonderful in helping to eliminate toxins from the body, and they are good to eat on a weight loss programme.

Some ways to use peaches as medicine:

1. Ripe fruits are given in stomach ailments, as they soothe the walls of the stomach and remove all the accumulated toxins from the digestive system.

2. Its juice is known to remove worms from the intestine.

3. It is also very useful in keeping the eyes healthy.

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I have been gastritis for about a month and therefore I have been looking for remedies of stomach pain and other related stomach disorders. Fennel is an excellent stomach and intestinal remedy and also a diuretic. Its decoction is given to the infants for colic and flatulence.

Fennel as medicine:

1. Anaemia: Boil 6 spoons each crushed fennel and red rose petals in one and half teacup water and strain. Take twice daily and drink.

2. Indigestion and gas: Have roasted fennel daily after meals.

3. Constipation: Make a very fine powder of 1 spoon each of the following: fennel, dried ginger and rock salt. Take one spoon with water at bedtime.

4. Diarrhoea: Grind 3 spoon ginger along with 5 spoon fennel into a fine powder. Add enough honey to make a thick paste. Take one spoon in tea three times daily.

5. Colic: Boil 1 spoon fennel in a glass of milk for 10 minutes. Strain and drink. Drink 1 spoon teacup decoction of rose water with honey and fennel.

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Papaya is a yellowish color food which is taken during summer by most of the people to keep their stomach cool. But there are some ways through which papaya can be used as medicine and can cure some kind of disorders. The chymopapain in papaya softens tight muscles and is the reason it is the main ingredients in meat tenderizers. The fruit contains vitamins A, B and C. It is a tonic, laxative, digestive and rejuvenative. Ripe fruit is very useful in digestive disorders and if taken regularly, it cures all sorts of stomach troubles.

The unripe fruit is also prescribed in stomach troubles, jaundice, gastritis and liver disorder. The ripe fruit should be eaten regularly for habitual constipation and chronic diarrhoea.

Now Papaya as medicine:

1. The juice is applied on corns, warts, pimples, horny excretions of the skin and other skin diseases.

2. Anaemia, constipation, eye-diseases and intestinal worms: Eat papayas frequently.

3. Liver and spleen inflamation: Taken papaya daily with 1 spoon of honey.

4. Dead, flaky skin on face: Take a ripe papaya slice and mash the pulp. Use it as a face pack overnight.

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