Doctor in the house
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Tried and tested allopathic medicines to no avail? The cure to your problem may lie in your household. Read on as
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Blood Pressure
Garlic is known to lower cholesterol, bring down blood’s triglyceride levels, inhibit platelet’s stickiness and ease blood coagulation. Having garlic juice with fresh water lowers high blood pressure.
Cholestrol
• Green tea is refreshing and cuts down body fat. Avoid adding milk and sugar to it. Drinking four to eight cups of green tea lowers high blood pressure as well.
• Also two tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of cinnamon powder mixed in 500 ml of green tea is beneficial to cholestrol patients. They should drink it within two hours of sleeping and nothing should be eaten after that.
Diabetes
Bitter gourd is a good medicine for diabetics as it helps in better flow of insulin.
• Peel off the skin, dry it and make fine powder. Consume three to six grams of powder every day with water or honey.
• Drink bitter gourd juice every alternate day.
• Bitter gourd cooked with a pinch of salt and turmeric is also an option. Use less oil and avoid spices.
• Have lots of fresh fruits and leafy vegetables, such as lettuce, without any dressing.
• Eat wheat flour chapattis minus the ghee. Avoid rice, lal mirch and salt.
• Put 300 gms of jamon in 600 ml. of boiling water. Cook for five to ten minutes. Mash after cooling and strain using muslin cloth. Consume this juice thrice a day, daily.
Sinus
• Jalneti is a process wherein you take one litre of warm water and add 10 grams of salt to it. Allow half litre of water to pass through each of your nostril by using a jalneti pot (lota). Perform sheershan after this to drain out excess water. It’s important not to try this medication on your own. Consult the nearest yoga centre for expert guidance. If you catch a cold after performing jalneti, discontinue it. Performing this medication in the morning is beneficial.
• Take a handful of ajwain and roast it on a hot surface. Tie into a muslin cloth, rub and inhale slowly from both nostrils. Go easy as the smell is very strong.
Continue jalneti and ajwain medication for a week. Thereafter, you may stop ajwain medication and continue only with jalneti.
Osteoporosis
• Have calcium-rich foods such as fresh apple juice, cereals and breads. Dark leafy vegetables such as beans, bean sprout, yellow and orange vegetable and tofu are advisable.
• Chew a handful of sesame seeds every morning. It provides at least 1200 mg of natural calcium. Or you may have one part of black or white sesame seeds with half part shatavari (ginger and sugar added to taste).
Muscle and joint pain
As per Ayurveda, joint and muscle pains are due to veta related disorders which attack older people.
• Follow a vegetarian diet. Avoid fatty foods, dairy products, excess salt and sugar.
• Include dates, raisins and citrus fruits such as oranges in your diet.
• Sip hot water and tea made from dry ginger root.
Headache
• Soak 10 gms of tamarind in a glass of water. Take the juice out and mix it with some sugar. The drink helps relieve headache.
• Make a mustard paste, using little water. Apply it on your forehead.
• Tie two clean betel leaves on your ears. The coolness of the leaves has a healing effect on the eardrums, subsequently easing the headache.
Backache
• Betel leaf juice, when mixed with refined coconut oil and applied on the back, provides relief.
• Garlic extract is known to provide relief from backache without any side effects.
• Mix lemongrass with coconut oil (twice the quantity) and apply where you experience pain.
• Having food grains such as wheat, millet and sorghum (in form of rotis) is advised.
• Grind some sesame seeds in water. Warm the solution and apply repeatedly.
For healthy hair
• To curb hairfall, have two to five grams of trifala mixed with 125 mg of iron dust in the morning.
• Use an iron kadahi for cooking. It adds extra iron to your food which helps maintain healthy hair.
• Add tamarind and curry leaves to your food.
• Have amla in your everyday meals.
• Have whole grain flours instead of refined ones.
• Have yoghurt and lassi.
Weight loss
Drink honey and cinammon powder (boiled in cup of water) on empty stomach every morning half an hour before breakfast and at night before sleeping.
(Bhairav Singh Rajput is the head chef at Nawab Saheb Restaurant, Renaissance Hotel)
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2008-11-01
