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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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The liquid inside green nuts offers a refreshing drink during hot summer months, which keeps the body cool. It prevents sunstroke, heat stroke and vomiting. It is given in thirst, fever and urinary track disorders and it is blood purifier. It checks motion sickness and nausea.

Coconut milk compares to mother’s milk in its chemical balance. It is complete protein food when in its natural form.

Medical significance of coconut:

1. Stomach Ulcers: Frequently drink tender coconut water and milk extracted from the kernel.

2. Mouth Ulcers: Mix some coconut milk with honey and massage the gums 3 to 4 times a day. Gargle with freshly extracted coconut milk frequently.

3. Thinning of hair: Bathe the hair with 1 tea cup coconut milk twice or thrice a week for a few months.

4. Prickly heat: Grind well 1 tea spoon grated coconut along with 1 tea spoon cumin and apply the paste on the affected areas.

5. Intestinal parasites: To prevent such infections, add coconut to the daily diet.

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Yesterday I just drank a peach juice and click in the mind the importance of the peach in medical application. The peach has a high sugar and water content and hence has a very good laxative effect. Peaches are wonderful in alkanizing the blood stream and stimulate the digestive juices. They can be used to regulate the bowel and build because the body assimilates this food very easily. Because cases of ulcers of the stomach or inflammation of the bowel, to eliminate toxins from the body, and they are good to eat on a weight-loss programme.

As medicine peach can be used in the following ways:

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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