Garlic pods fall into the category of malignant foods. Reason being that savouring it jolts and stimulates a person. Yet, there is little left to taste if cuisine is devoid of garlic. That apart, garlic is an excellent alround medicine. For instance :
- Peel off skin from pods of a garlic bulb and pool them in 100 gms of mustard oil, and heat on low flame. When pods turn black, separate oil through sieve and store it in a separate bottle. Massage this oil into head scalp after washing your hair each evening. Thereafter wrap hair in knot and go to sleep. On this regimen, falling of hair will stop in a matter of 15 to 20 days.
- Mix extracts of garlic and lemon in equal parts, massage them into hair roots and let dry. Within two hours you would be free of entire lice infestation.
- Garlic is superb in relieving pain of gout. For this, boil 15-16 pods in 250 ml. of cow’s milk, filter, and drink.
- All the same rub garlic oil on affected organ. For making this oil, use sesame oil as base. Apart from gout, this application is also useful in cough and colds, paralytic stroke, alzhemir’s disease etc.
- In stomach gas, indigestion, and lack of appetite—chew 4-6 garlic leaves with thorough mastication. You’ll get instant relief.
- A spoonful of garlic extract subdues bouts of severe vomiting with immidiate effect.
- If constipated, take garlic tea (without sugar) early in the morning. To make this tea add a little of gur in a cup of hot water. This will also relieve bad belching and gas formation.
- If any part of body is depigmented (white spots), make a fine paste of garlic and mix it in 4 times its volume of good vaseline. Apply this ointment 2-3 times per day on the white spot.
- In sprains and injuries applying a poultice of garlic and turmeric on affected part gives instant relief.
- Consuming 5-6 garlic pods each day can cure tuberculosis permanently. Reason being that its rich sulphuric acid content kills germs responsible for this infectious disease.
- Cholesterol is enemy No.1 for heart. It layers up on inner lining of blood vessels, retarding the flow of blood through them. Excessive deposits of cholesterol may choke blood channels completely, leading to heart attack.
- Since garlic contains suplhur in good amounts, it can flush clean cholesterol deposits from body. Hence it is advisable to chew 5-6 garlic pods every morning. This will remove cholesterol deposits and throw them out.
- To jettison obesity, eat raw garlic pods every morning and evening, with a glass of lukewarm water.
- Patient of diabetes should make garlic a habit. It will check loss of sugar through urinary secretions to a great extent.
- Put a few drops of garlic juice in mouth of a person passing through epileptic fits. The patient will regain consciousness without loss of time.
- Post partum if a woman suffers from fever or pain, she will benefit by taking two pods of garlic once a day, either morning or in the evening.
Disease terminator tomato
Almost in all households tomato is a favoured salad, albeit its medicinal use is no less. It contains many suc©h food factors which antagonise various disease conditions in our body. Given here below are some common ailments, and how they can be treated by this succelent veggie.
Dyspepsia
When what is eaten is far is excess of required, abdomen is abnormaly distended. Sour and synging air is belched out. This is dyspepsia. In such condition, tomato soup is extremely beneficial. It softens contents of upset stomach, and helps put digestion in proper gear.
Paralysis
It’s a kind of stroke or nervous disorder in which half of the body goes limb on account of Vaayu going wayward. To get relief from this syndrome take mixed juice of tomato and spinach sprinkled with carum powder.
This above decoction should be gently rubbed on affected part. However, the treatment is effective only when given at an early stage. If disease gets chronic or long standing, this treatment fails.
Carrot : The mine of minerals
Carrot, the vegetable, is famous worldwide over.
It is a nutritious eat, with a green foliage rich in proteins, vitamins and mineral elements. There are many varieties of it which can be divided into two broad groups, one Europeon, two—Asian. The Asian is large sized, sweet tasting and dark red in colour, whereas the European variety is mid sized, smooth surfaced, low fibre vegie with sharper end.
Cultivation
Origin of carrot is traceable to Centrel Asia covering areas of Punjab and Kashmir in India. Subsequently thus crop extended to Asia, Europe, Equatorial zone and South Africa. To day carrot is widely cultivated in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Mid East and West Africa, Carribian zone, South America etc.
Natural advantages
Carrot is a rich source of alkaline elements which are blood purifiers and benign elixirs. Carrot addresses to the needs of the whole lot of body systems and steadies acid base balance in body.
Carrot juice is verily called the magic drink, equally good and invigorating for children as well as adults. It ups acuty of eye sight and tones up body’s internal organs. It is beneficial for parched and dry skin as well.
Carrot seeds should never be taken in early pregnancy as it harms inner lining of uterus, causing abortion. Eating raw carrot has cleansing effect on teeth and gums. Gastric disorders of all kind, like colitis, appendicitis, dyspepsia and peptic ulcers are cured with regular uptake of carrot.
Constipation is relieved if carrot juice and spinach juice are mixed and taken in ratio 5:1.
Carrot for children
Loose motions are quite common in children, and carrot juice is perfect answer for them. Infact it addresses to the (attendant) problem of dehydration much the same way as ORS (oral rehydration solution)—a solution containing sodium, potassium, calcium sulphur and magnesium, does. Intestinal worms in children are expelled out easily if on a solo breakfast of shredded carrots.
Miscellaneous uses
Carrot is right recipe to up reproductive potential. Apart from this, it makes excellent salad, pickle, recipes, juice, soup and the favourite sweet dish (gajar ka halwa) which is a rage in winter season. Yet, it is best to consume carrots in raw form as heat treatment tends to lower its mineral contents and overall nutritional merit.
A word about children’s food
It goes without saying that right kind of food is vital for health growth and developmental needs of tiny tots. It is also obvious that nutritional needs of a person change with age and health profile. Likewise, school children have specific needs of their own which are unique and ubiqutous.
School age (2 to 6 year) is the right time to initiate children into apt eating habits. Ergo, their diet ought to be up-to-the-mark both in quality as well as quantity.
Fats and carbohydrates : The energy boosters
To meet biological needs of growth and development we need a myriad energy sources like wheat and other cereals, potatoes, dry fruits, oil, sugar etc. Also required as essentially are ‘proteins’ for regeneration and reconstitution of worn out tissues and cells. Notable protein sources are pulses, meat, fish, milk, curd, paneer, egg etc.
Calcium is another need for health of teeth and skeletal system. It is available aplenty in milk, curd, fish etc.
We also require iron for synthesis of heamoglobin in red blood cells. Growing children need an extra dose of iron to keep pace with their rapid growth. When girls reach puberty, their requirement of iron goes up to recompense for loss through menstrual flow. A deficiency of iron precipitates anaemia, irksome temperament, headache, weakness and buzzing sensation in palm and feet.
Vitamin A is required by human body for normal vision, proper development of bones and soft tissues, and also for protection from ailments and myriad infectious agents. However, for more information on subject, a physician should be consulted.
