What are Benefits and Medicinal uses of Rejuvenation By Thick Buttermilk

 

                           Rejuvenation By Thick Buttermilk

 

What is Rejuvenation Thick  Buttermilk?

                                           Many expert dieticians consider thick buttermilk (matha) to be more effective than milk or curd in certain ailments. Thick buttermilk has a special significance as it is light and easy for digestion. It is called the nectar of the earth. It has no equal in rejuvenating the body by expelling harmful elements from it.

                           The properties and effects of buttermilk vary in proportion to quality of milk of which it is made. If one desires to get oneself rejuvenated by thick buttermilk, one should use only the milk of cow. A mixture of three-fourths of curd with one-fourth of water makes a delicious thick buttermilk. The sour curd should not be used for preparing buttermilk. For treatment, thick buttermilk should be prepared three to four times from fresh curd every day.

                            There is a clear reference in ‘Bhavaprakash, the famous ancient book of medicine, that one who takes thick buttermilk in prescribed manner never loses one’s health.

                               According to the Ayurveda thick (cow) buttermilk is delicious, light and warm. It kindles gastric fire. It is sweet and digestive. It eliminates all the three principal systemic disturbances i.e. ‘vata, ‘pitta’ and ‘cough'. It helps to digest fried items, sweets and other heavy items.

                            Thick buttermilk made of skimmed-milk is nearly devoid of fat. Other contents of thick buttermilk are as follows:

                            Protein about 3.2 to 3.4 per cent, Lactose about 4.6 to 5.2 per cent, Lactic acid about 0.5 to 1.1 per cent, Calcium about 0.12 to 0.14 per cent, Phosphorus about 0.09 to 0.1 per cent, Iron about 0.2 to 0.3 per cent.

                             It also contains magnesium, potassium, sodium, chlorine, sulphur and other salts in small proportion. It contains Vitamin ‘B2’ 30 mg/100 gm and Vitamin ‘A’ in a small quantity.

 The method of taking thick buttermilk for rejuvenation:

                                   The method of taking thick buttermilk for rejuvenation is the same as that of taking milk. If taking milk for rejuvenation does not suit one, one can take thick buttermilk instead. It should be well remembered that thick buttermilk should not be sour.

                          One who takes up thick buttermilk for rejuvenation in order to maintain health and to allay minor disorders need not do any preplanning. One can begin the regimen of thick buttermilk after observing fast or juice-fast for two to three days.

             However, in cases of chronic diseases, the patient can preplan to get the maximum benefits out of the regimen of thick buttermilk. First of all, the patient should resort to nature-cure to check the disease. Then he should get his body cleansed by observing fast or juice-fast for about four days. He should begin taking thick buttermilk on the fifth day. As per the chart given below, thick buttermilk should be taken every two hours.

 

Day                 Quantity of thick buttermilk                 How many               Total quantity                                                to be taken                        times?                           of thick                                                                                                                                        buttermilk

First                               25 ml                                           7 times                   175 ml

Second                           50 ml                                           7 times                    350 ml             

Third                              75 ml                                           7 times                     525 ml

Fourth                            100 ml                                         7 times                     700 ml

Fifth                               125 ml                                         7 times                      875 ml

Sixth                              150 ml                                         7 times                     1050 ml

 

  Note:

                             From the 7^th day onwards, thick buttermilk should be taken at the intervals of one and half hours instead of 2 hours.

 

Day                    Quantity of thick buttermilk               How many              Total  quantity                                                to be taken                               times ?                    of thick                                                                                                                                       buttermilk 

                                                                                                                                                  Seventh                          150 ml                                          9 times                         1350 ml

Eighth                            175 ml                                          9 times                         1575 ml

Ninth  

 And                     200 ml                                          9 times                          1800 ml

Tenth

 

  Note:

                         From the eleventh day thick buttermilk should be taken at the interval of one hour.

 

Day                     Quantity of thick buttermilk                How many         Total quantity                                            to be taken                                     time?                    of thick

                                                                                                                     buttermilk

                                                                                                                  Eleventh                   200 ml                                          12 times                      2400 ml

Twelfth                      250 ml                                          12 times                      3600 ml

Thirteenth                 300 ml                                           12 times                      3600 ml

From the fourteenth day, the patient should take thick  buttermilk  at the interval of every three quarters of an hour and sixteen times a day. Thick buttermilk should not be taken in noon times. This order should continue at least for 30 days. Some experts advise to continue the regimen for even more days.

            Start should be made by taking the first dose in the morning at 7. Buttermilk should be taken till 7 in the evening. Neither sugar nor salt should be added to it for taste. Adjustments in quantity, if circumstances warrant, may be undertaken.

 

The conclusion of the regimen of thick buttermilk:

            The patient  take thick buttermilk six times (only for the first half of the day) on the day when the regimen is to be concluded. In the afternoon, he should take fruits or vegetables or whole fruits containing minimum quantity of fibres. The same quantity of thick buttermilk should be taken on the second day, but in the noon, he should take fruits and steamed vegetables. On the third day, he should take thick buttermilk in the morning, at noon in the evening-three times only. He should take fruits or steamed vegetables during the intervals. From the fourth day he should begin talking a small quantity of cooked food. Gradually he should come back, to normal diet.

Hints:

            During the regimen of thick buttermilk, it is possible that one may suffer from minor ailments like swelling of gums, body ache, constipation or diarrohea. The patient need not worry about these disorders. Something, the patient feels feverish during the regimen of thick buttermilk. In such cases he should stop taking thick buttermilk for a day or two and observe fasting. When temperature becomes normal, he should resume taking the regimen. During the regimen, there is an increase in the amount of perspiration and urine. It is natural. The patient need not worry about it.

 

Disease in which thick buttermilk regimen is useful:

            Physicians are of the opinion that there is no remedy superior to thick buttermilk for the cure of abdominal disorders and dysentery. Thick buttermilk vitalises, strengthens and activates the digestive organs.

            Moreover, the efficacy of the regimen of thick buttermilk in skin-diseases, piles, dropsy, asthma, arthritis, diabetes and other disease has been well established.

            In short, thick buttermilk is a simple and harmless remedy for cleaning the body, expelling hostile elements from the body and the rejuvenation of the body.

What are Benefits and Medicinal uses of Honey (Shahad) ?

 

                            Honey

 

                                “Honey is a unique medicine.”

                    -Ayurvedacharya Vagbhata

                    A drop of honey is wordless, pleasant poem; divine song accomplishing sweet harmony; a chorus a warmth and light. Colours of innumerable flowers and there pleasant fragrance are latent in every drop of honey. Honey is a harmless combination of the perfume and sweetness of flowers.

                     Aristotle has stated, “when the stars rice in the sky and the rainbow is visible, pure honey oozes from the atmosphere. Honey is the sky’s   perspiration, of the sweet saliva dripping from the stars or the nectar trickling from the air.”

                      There are references in the vedas that people in those days were used to taking honey with spirituous liquor.  There are eulogies in honey. In the Arabian literature, honey pervades the poetry. Honey has a unique place in the poem of Hafiz.

                        The value of honey has been accepted in India since time immemorial. In Egypt also, honey had been used in the preparation of various types of medicines. In ancient Greece it was very popular. In Olympic games, it was largely used with hot water after strenuous exercises to replenish the store of exhausted energy. Hippocrates, the father of the European medicine, believed that honey bestowed long life and therefore used to recommend   it to his patients.

                         According to Vagbhata,   honey is good for eyes and it is used in the preparation of different medicines for the eyes. It is dry in its intrinsic nature and so it can be used for reducing obesity. Honey is a ‘rasayana’. It is aphrodisiac. It reduces fat and increase virility. It dislodges phlegm. In the Ayurveda, honey is regarded to be ‘Yogavahi’. It means that honey increases the curative power of the medicine with which it is combined.

                         The bees suck the nectar from flowers and deposit it in their honey sack. The bees have to visit over two to five lakh flowers to gather one kg. of  honey. Sometimes they fly to a distance of two miles from their hive in search of flowers. Honey stored in the hive has 75 percent of water. But as the time passes the water evaporates to a large extent. During this process the water content of the nectar is reduced to 20 percent.

                         In reality, the nectar gathered by the bees is a form of cane-sugar, but in the honey sack of the bee it undergoes chemical changes. The cane-sugar is converted into a combination of dextrose and levulose.  Hence the cane-sugar content of honey is only 1.9 percent. The total content of honey is 76.4 percent, of which levulose forms 40.5 percent and dextrose 34 percent. The average percentage of other constituents is: dextrin (1.5 per cent) and ash (0.18 per cent). Besides, it contains iron, phosphorus, calcium, sodium, potassium, sulphur and manganese in small quantities. It is the darker varieties of honey which contain more mineral salts. Honey contains the following vitamins in moderate quantities:

                         Thiamin 6 microgrammes, riboflavin 60 microgrammes, niacin 32 micrograms and Vitamin ‘C’ 5 microgrames.

                            As a sweet, honey is far superior to sugar-cane. Of all the carbohydrates it is most easily digestible.

                             In the Moscow hospital, on an experimental basis, T.B patients were given 580 to 750 grams of honey daily. The patient gained weight. They obtained considerable relief from cough. Their haemoglobin   percentage increased. As a fuel for the body honey has no equal. Sugar in honey is predigested and is directly assimilable. Its absorption takes place right from the tongue. As it can be assimilated without taxing the digestive organs, it constitutes an admirable food for weak persons. It has a beneficial effect on indigestion, colitis and acidity. In fever, when it is difficult to digest food, honey serves the purpose of a medicine for preserving energy. It is recommended as a good food in typhoid and pneumonia.

                             According to Dr. J. H. Kellogg, honey is an ideal food in the heart and the liver disorders. In the case of weakness of the heart or in hysteria, if honey is given with warm water, it serves the purpose of brandy or spirit of ammonia.

                            Honey is full of powerful antibacterial properties. The diarrhoea germs when placed in honey could not survive for more than 10 hours. The paratyphoid and the typhoid germs died within 24 and 48 hours respectively.

                            Ulcers heal rapidly when honey is applied to them. Honey is a mild laxative. It cures constipation and gives relief in cold, cough and sore throat. It is helpful in disturbed urination. It is considered to be a remedy for rheumatism and arthritis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are Benefits and Medicinal uses of Watermelon(Tarbuj) ?

                         Watermelon

 

“In scorching summer days, nothing is more soothing than the juice of the watermelon.”

                                                                                                            -Dr. J.H. Kellogg

                                      
                                                                                                                                                                   

Introduction:

                         The watermelon is indigenous to Africa. It is now a favorite fruit in all the parts of the world. Growing on a vine this fruit is round in shape and weighs generally between 1 to 12 kgs. The pulp (kernel) of the watermelon is reddish in colour and very sweet in taste. The pulp contains black seeds.

 Qualities:

                        According to the Ayurveda, the watermelon is cool, diuretic, energizing and delicious. It satisfies thirst and hunger, gives nutrition and allays biliousness.

 Analysis of Contents are:

                     95.7% water, 0.1% protein, 0.2% fat, 3.8% carbohydrates, 0.1% calcium, 0.01% phosphorus, 0.2 mg/100 gm Iron, 0.2 mg/100 gm Niacin, 2.0 microgram/100 gm Vitamin ‘B’, 1 mg/100 gm Vitamin ‘A’.

 Use:

                      The watermelon can be eaten directly after discarding its thick rind and seeds. Its juice also can be taken. Since the juice can be taken in large quantity, the body is provided with more nutrients.

 Benefits:

                       The juice of melon gives relief in abdominal troubles and it has a soothing effect on the burning sensation in the stomach. As it is diuretic it is beneficial in kidney and bladder disorders (renal dysfunction). It is chiefly used for giving cooling effect on the body and the mind. It stimulates the process of rejuvenation going on in the body.

 

 

 

 

 

What are Benefits and Medicinal uses of Pineapple (Ananas)?

                                                         Pineapple

 

“As the pineapple contain sufficient chlorine. It stimulates the activity of the Kidneys and the help to remove waste products from the body.”

                                                                                    -Sir George watt

 

 

 

Introduction:

                            The pineapple is the believed to be a native of Brazil and was introduced in Europe by Columbus, the famous navigator. Afterwards it spread everywhere. There is a reference that the Portuguese brought it to India in 1502 A.D.

                   It is freely grown in Burma, Malaysia and the Philippine Islands are considered to be excellent quality.

 

Qualities:

                          The Ayurveda has brought to light many of the properties of pineapple. The ripe pineapple is a diuretic. It destroys intestinal worms and soothes bile. It is delicious and digestive. It expels gas. It is beneficial to the heart and effective in abdominal disorders, jaundice and anemia.

 

 Analysis of Content:

                                        Pineapple contains   86.5% water, 0.6% Protein, 0.1% Fat, 12.0% Sugar, 0.12% Calcium, 0.01% Phosphorus, 0.9 mg /100 gm Iron,  60 I. U./ 100 gm Vitamin ‘A’, 120 I.U./100 gm Vitamin ‘B2’, 63 mg/100 gm Vitamin ‘C.

 

The pineapple contains 12 per cent sugar. About 4 per cent of its sugar is constituted by glucose  and  7.5 per cent by cane-sugar. 87 per cent its total acids are formed by citric acid and 13 per cent by malic acid.  These acids are beneficial to the body.

The pineapple contains an enzyme called “ brosmelin” which resembles pepsin and therefore helps to digest food. It gives relief in digestive disorders.

Uses:

               The pineapple should not be taken on empty stomach. The upper rind and the innermost flesh on the pineapple should be discarded. The remaining portion should be cut into pieces. Juice should be extracted from these pieces. Raw pineapple or excessively ripe pineapple should be avoided during pregnancy.

Benefits:

              Fresh pineapple juice exercises a soothing effect on the throat. It is very useful in preventing affections of the vocal organ. In diphtheria, it is used for removing the dead membranes from the throat. This antiviral property of the pineapple juice has been confirmed even by the Ayurveda experts. As per their opinion pineapple juice allays bile, destroys intestinal worms and is beneficial to the heart

Chlorine contained in the pineapple juice stimulates the activity of the kidneys and helps to remove toxic elements and waste products from the body. It also gives relief in cellulitis.