Medicines in kitchen– Turmeric

Turmeric is a must spice in asian cooking . It has refreshing aroma and strong taste and pleasant yellow colour. Beside its importance in cooking it has got many medicinal properties and it a important herb in ayurveda .

Turmeric properties:

• Detoxify the liver
• Balance cholesterol levels
• Fight various allergies
• Stimulate digestion
• Boost immunity
• Enhance the complexion

Diseases in which turmeric is used as a medicine :

• Anemia,
• cancer,
• diabetes,
•  food poisoning, indigestion
• gallstones, , IBS, parasites, poor circulation,
• staph infections, and wounds.

How turmeric is used in food items :

·        Wet turmeric pickle is very good in taste and has anticancer and antioxidant properties

·        In many delicacies turmeric leaves are used for its aroma . eg steamed fish wrapped in turmeric leaf or some swwet dish finally seasoned with turmeric leaf

·        Dry turmeric powder in almost all curries, pickles etc.

So add the yellow colour in your food and let the aroma spread .

Wish you health.

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How to deal with hypercholestremia

Hypercholestremia is the term used for increased level of triglycerides in blood .

The condition is mainly lifestyle related .Therauptic Lifestyle Changes  (TLC) play important role in dealing hypercholestremia.

TLC  contains

1.     Appropriate diet changes

2.     Excersice

3.     Medical intervention 

But the very first step is to determine the mind for adapting positive changes in lifestyle and to stick to them

1.Appropriate diet changes:

Diet do’s

• Eat freshly cooked food.
• Eat in small quantity 4-5 times in a day.
• Make sure eat variety of food.
• Enough but not excess water to maintain fluid level,
• Drink unsweetened and freshly prepared juices
• Make sure you eat lunch and dinner on time.
• Breakfast should be between 8am -9am
• Breakfast should be heavy to fulfill calorie need
• Lunch should be between 12 to 1pm
• Light lunch to avoid fullness of stomach at workplace
• Evening snacks should  b rich in micronutrients like fruits, juice,etc .
• Early  light dinner with variety of soups, soft rice ,dal,buttermilk etc

• Lots of green, leafy vegetables properly cooked.

• Use lots of curry leaves, garlic, fenugreek seeds, dried ginger. While cooking
• Use green sprouted mung, carrots, cooked beet  root for salad.
• Eat Amla in any form everyday.

• Seasonal fresh fruits

Diet don’ts

• Avoid eating at the fullest of stomach.
• Avoid eating too fast or standing.
• Don’t drink water just before your meal.    
• Avoid hotel and street food.

       Keep away from leftover, fried, preserved, salted, and ready to eat food

• Avoid plain flour food like pasta, pizza, white  bread.
• Avoid Red beans, dry green beans, double bean, chole, rajma.
• Avoid all type of sweet from shops. Homemade sweet  on few occasionas will do.
• Avoid Thick gravies, curries like in Punjabi food.
• Strictly avoid use of curd, milk while preparing curry or sabji
• Avoid Fermented food like dhokla, Idali, Dosa etc.
• Avoid heavy, greesy food at dinner
• Avoid frequent cheese and paneer

Recommended Foods

Group Recommended Foods

·        Grains  :

 Whole grain breads and cereals, including oats and barley(javas), jawar , bajra, , nachani

Pasta, especially whole wheat or other whole grain types

                    Brown rice

• Pulses: Masur dal, mung dal, green mung dal, whole green mung

• Vegetables : pumpkin, bottle gourd ,bitter gourd , snake gourd ,cabbage, ladyfinger, spinach, lal math, brinjal are more beneficial

Fruits:  Fresh, fig , apple, banana, pomegranate , chikku, pear, jamuns, amla etc

Food Group

Foods Not Recommended

Grains : High-fat bakery products, such as doughnuts, biscuits, croissants,

danish pastries, pies, cookies

Snacks made with partially hydrogenated oils, including chips,

cheese puffs, snack mixes, regular crackers, butter-flavored

popcorn

Vegetables : Fried vegetables

Vegetables prepared with butter, cheese, or cream sauce

Fruits : Fried fruits

Fruits served with butter or cream eg. Fruit salads, milk shakes

Whole milk yogurt or ice creams

Cream

Red meat, fried meat

2. Excersice :

 

·        Brisk walking in early morning at least for 45 mins

·        Suryanamskar is the ideal exercise for each and every oragan and body part.

·        Yogasanas  and  breathing exercise like kapalbhati, pranayam etc

·         Other exercises under guidance of expert and medical advise

3.Medical intervention:

In some cases apart from diet and exercises medicines and therapies are advised.

·        Panchkarma therapy like vaman , virecha and lekhan basti   

·        Shirodhara for stress related conditions

·        Ayurvedic medicine to enhance the digestion and absorption of nutrients to avoid the accumulation of lipids.

·        Ayurvedic medicine to combat or to prevent the ailments due to hypercholestremia  

·        A very important part is counseling the patient to prepare him for the lifestyle change which is really very difficult to adapt

·        Regular follow-ups to check on the progress

·        Avoid sleeping at daytime after lunch

 

 

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Awala

Latin Names
Emblica officinalis Gaertn

English Name / Common Name
Indian Gooseberry / Amla

Sanskrit / Indian Name
Amalaki / Amla

Benefits of Amla
Strong rejuvenative
Balances stomach acids
Improves food absorption
Anti-oxidant - prevents premature aging
Amla is known to prevent and treat respiratory disorders
Lungs are strengthened by Amla
Amla enhances brain functions
Amla detoxifies and cleanses.
Fertility is enhanced by regular use of Amla
Amla strengthens immune system
Acts as a coolant
Amla treats hemorrhage, diarrhea and dysentery
Amla with its strong vitamin content is very useful for scurvy
With its anti-oxidant and detoxification properties, Amla is well known for treating skin disorders
Disorders of the eye are also treated by Amla
Amla prevents premature graying and falling of hair.
Indications
Cough, cold, sore throat & other respiratory tract infections
Premature aging
Repeated episodes of respiratory infections, as an immunomodulator
Dyspepsia & Hyperacidity
Skin disorders.

Considered as the best herb in ayurveda having extreme regards in the minds of herbalist world-wide. it is considered as a single herb treatment for almost every disease present on the face of the earth. It helps in maintaining the balance in all the three doshas that is vital for proper functioning of the body. Amalaki also known as amla is one of the riches source of Vitamin C is also blessed with very important bioflavonoids, flavones and polyphenols along with certain carotenoids.

The amla fruit juice is reported to contain nearly 20 times as much vitamin C as orange juice. The edible amla fruit tissue has 3 times the protein concentration and 160 times the ascorbic acid concentration of an apple. The fruit also contains considerably higher concentration of most minerals and amino acids than apples. Amla fruit ash contains chromium, 2.5 ; zinc, 4; and copper, 3 ppm. The fruit is considered an adaptogenic that improves immunity.

Dosage
1 or 2 capsules twice daily with meals. Allow several weeks for long lasting benefits. Natural products treat not just the symptoms but the body as a whole and take time for absorption and results.

Amla Research and Clinical Studies
Amla has been identified to have potent antioxidant, immunomodulatory, antistress properties. Apart from its medicinal use it is widely used in traditional hair and skin care formulations. Aside from Vitamin C, Amla's mineral and vitamin contents include calcium, Phosphorous, iron, carotene, carbohydrate, thiamine, riboflavin. Its strong antioxidant properties are due to its small molecular weight tannoid complexes.

In a study carried out by scientists at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagasaki University, in Japan, amla extracts were found to be able to prevent the growth of cancerous cells in the stomach, skin and womb (Biol Pharm Bull. 2004 Feb;27(2):251-5).

Scientists from the Biochemistry Division, National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, in India, found that amla is able to block a chemical called aldose reductase, which has been heavily implicated in causing cataracts in diabetic patients (Mol Vis. 2004 Mar 12;10:148-54).

Several animal studies have shown that amla can help prevent a toxic build-up of heavy metals - caused by frequent exposure to metals like aluminium, lead and nickel. When vitamin C alone was used - equivalent to that found in amla fruit - only partial protection from heavy metals was provided. However, when the whole amla fruit was used almost complete protection was achieved. This indicates that it is the combined action of the various ingredients found in the fruit that effectively helps shield DNA from heavy metal poisoning (Dhir, H.A. Agarwal; A. Sharma, and G. Talukder. Cancer Letters 59.9 18, 1991; Giri, A.K. Cytologia 51, pp 375-380, 1986).

Clinical studies were conducted to investigate the effect of Amalaki in amlapitta (gastritis syndrome). Amalaki churna was given in 20 cases in a dose of 3g., thrice a day for seven days. The drug was found effective in 85 per cent of cases. Cases of hyperchlorhydria with burning sensation in abdominal and cardiac regions and epigastric pain were benefited.

Scientists at the Division of Pharmacology, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, India, evaluated the efficacy of Amla fruit against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) and thioacetamide (TAA) induced changes in rat liver. Chronic treatment of CCl4 and TAA revealed abnormal histopathology indicative of pre-fibrogenic events. Extract of Amla reversed such alterations with significant regenerative changes suggestive of its preventive role in prefibrogenesis of liver. (Reversal of hepatotoxin-induced pre-fibrogenic events by Emblica officinalis--a histological study.Mir AI, Kumar B, Tasduq SA, Gupta DK, Bhardwaj S, Johri RK. Division of Pharmacology, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, (Formerly Regional Research Laboratory), Jammu-Tawi 180 001, India.)

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