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Asafoetida:- It is commonly known as hing is good for flatulence, whooping cough or asthma, when mixed with water or honey and consumed.
- It is powdered and mixed with rice and ghee is good for women after child birth,
- It helps in relieving toothache.
- It is used in the treatment of dysentery, colic, indigestion and dyspepsia. Boil water and add a teaspoonful of ajwain and boil for 5 minutes
- This is very helpful when inhaling the vapours, gives relief for cold and migraine.
- A pinch of ajwain powder,salt with rice and ghee is good for small babies (above 6 months)
- Any complaint due to indigestion can be cured by taking ajwain powder and saindhava lavana choorna mixed with butter milk.
- Ajwain water is useful in diarrhoea, indigestion and wind in the bowels.
- Amla contains all the tastes (sweet, sour pungent, bitter, astringent) except salt, post digestive action being sweet.
- The amla powder is boon for persons complaining burning in the eyes and the soles of the feet.
- Amla is a digestive tonic.
- Amla in the diet for a sufficiently long period regulates and tones up digestive system.
- Amla increases the weight of thin, lean and emaciated persons without increasing fat.
- It is useful for diabetics mellitus.
- Premature baldness, greying and dandruff can be controlled by regular use of amla.
- Hair oil prepared from fresh juice of amla has a cooling and soothing effect on the brain.
Aniseed:
- It helps in digestion and especially good for children and nursing mothers..
- Small additions of aniseed powder helps the very young babies to digest their first solid foods.
- These leaves have strong antiseptic properties.
- Generally, the betal leaf is soaked in mustard oil and warmed over fire and put on chest to relieve colds and chest congestion.
- Eating betal leaf with 1 tsp of honey gives us calcium.
- Betal leaf warmed over fire and put on stomach relieves ache when child suffering with stomach ache.
- It is also crushed and applied on a wound as a poultice.
- Chewing pan acts as mouth freshener and gives relief when heavily eaten.
- barley is rich in iron and phosphorus.
- Barley water is useful in dysentery, fever, urinary and kidney diseases, and diarrhoea.
- Roti with Barley powder, channa flour and wheat flour controls diabetics.
- Barley water is good for jaundice.
- It is soothing and cooling.
- It cures burning sensation in urine and helps its free flow.
- Drinking water in which caraway seeds has been added, and boiled for 10 minutes helps in removing flatulence, stomach worms and bad breath.
- It gives strenth to body and coolness to the eyes.
- It is stimulant, flavouring agent and aromatic
- It is used in sweets and garam masalas
- It is useful in flatulence(wind in the stomach and bowels), intestinal colic, excessive headache, dryness of mouth, cough.
- Celery is an excellent tonic and most nutritive vegetable.
- It is rich in minerals and vitamins A,B & C.
- It can be eaten raw or in the form of juice.
- A combination of carrot and celery is excellent for overcoming problems of gout, arthritis, rheumatism and acid deposits in the body.
- Intake of cinnamon powder regularly controls diabetics.
- Mix 1 tsp cinnamon powder, 2 tsp honey with water reduces joint pains.
- By applying cinnamon powder on forehead gives much relief to headache.
- Distilled water of cinnamon relieves abdominal colic, distention, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
- It is used as a spice for masalas
- Clove oil is useful in tooth troubles.
- It binds the bowels, stimulates appetite and aids digestion.
- It removes hoarseness of voice if chewed with or without sugar candy.
- It is used in vegetarian and non vegetarian curries.
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