Ajwain or carom seeds:

Ajwain or carom seeds: 

Tiny little seeds are mandatory in each and every Indian kitchen and have a great importance in Indian cooking. These seeds have strong aroma to remove bloating and congestion. These seeds also provide flavor, fragrance and taste to food recipes and chapattis.

Ajwain also has volatile oil to help digestion but try to use it raw form or in low flame cooking or last stage of cooking.

According to Ayurveda, Ajwain seeds are Amanashak which remove toxin from intestines preserve inner wall of intestines and it reduces toxin formation in the digestive canal restricting indigestion and mal-absorption.

Ajwain seeds are rich in minerals, fiber, vitamins and have many anti oxidants. Ajwain is a potent antimicrobial (contains about 50% thymol), carminative, antispasmodic, diaphoretic, diuretic, and energizer.

They can be chewed raw, added to water or tea to extract maximum benefits from them.

 

Uses of Ajwain:

1.       Healthy Digestion and bloating :

·       take ¼ tsp ajwain seeds after every meal with lukewarm water,

·       You also can have ajwain tea as boil a cup of water mix ½ tsp ajwain with a pinch of Dry ginger.

·       For little kids give ajwain jaggery tea to release bloating like 1 or 2 tsp is sufficient.

·       During menstrual cycle have ajwain tea or just a pinch of ajwain with pinch of salt with Luke warm water.

·       Use ajwain seeds in fritters, pooris, batis and chapattis to make it more digestive.

2.       Female health:

·       It is mandatory for every post natal care women to have it regular for at least  for 3 month to improve her digestion as per Indian homes for restoration of uterus health .

·       Regular use of ajwain in food improves PMS symptoms and PCOD disorders. (a mixture of ajwain, saunf, kalongi, jeera,methidana in a equal quantity , grind it and have it empty remedy)

·       During menstrual cycle those who have scanty and painful periods it’s a good remedy.

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3.       Ajwain for Cold and Flu

·       Ajwain seeds and jaggery kadha in congestion and hard winter a best remedy.

·       We can make a little potli of roasted ajwain with ½ tsp salt and place it around kids to give relief to blocked nose.

Elders can also use like natural inhaler.

·       For Asthma patients ajwain seeds aroma/steam is beneficial.

4.Mouth ulcers and bad breath:

·       Have ajwain seeds after food good for gums and mouth ulcers

·       It a best mouth wash and good for oral hygiene.

 

5.Hair health:

 

·       Ajwain seeds improve vata to avoid early grey hair, and promote healthy scalp and growth of hair.

 

6. Joint and bones health : It improve vyana vata, and shaleshmak kapha to improve joints health and swelling or infections.

You can also apply Ajwain paste to painful joint,  mix with honey or til oil.

 

 

7. Healthy heart: Ajwain seed regulates blood pressure and make arteries healthy. It makes lower triglycerides and cholesterol.(Research indicates that thymol -the significant component of carom seeds-may have calcium-channel-blocking effects and could help lower blood pressure levels).

 

 

8.  Weight Management:

Daily ajwain water gives high metabolic rate to burn extra fat and inflammation to the body. Within a week it shows result like remove 2-3 kgs quickly.

 

Other benefits:

Ajwain paste with mustard oil prevents mosquito bite scars from the skin. Increase healthy appetite and healing agent for whole body growth.

When to Avoid;

Avoid if you have hot potency body type or high pitta tendency. It has anti allergic factors  but try to take it not more than ½ tsp uses everyday because it has hot potency so no large quantity as a solo or with water or jiggery or mustard oil.

So use the ajwain seeds and enjoy your healthy meal with healthy body

 

 

 

 

How and why; correct fasting

Eating is important but not eating is also important as for remove toxins for best gift of mother nature (our beautiful body),like every religion suggest to do fasting once in a week or some special days like Ramjan, Ekadashi, Good friday etc.

How we can do fasting.

It is like promoting detox our body , many researches said about fasting that we should do once or twice in a week fasting to improve our brain function and metabolic disorders ,remove free radicals from blood and boost our immunity but during fasting you have to do proper rest and having water or some raw vegetables or fruits to help the system to detoxify with enema practice,wet packs too.

Who can do the fast?

Who they are determined to do, can do proper rest on that day. Please avoid pregnant ladies, lactating mothers or planning to conceive baby, Kids, underweight persons, undergoing any surgery recovery etc.

How we do fast:

We can do fast with fruits, vegetables if possible organic; we can do it on water or lemon water, single fruit. We can do once in a week or twice in a week or intermittent for fasting with self determination with positive approach.

Basic fasting pattern:

Intermittent like fasting any 14-16 hours of fasting on any time of the day as per your conveniences.

Water fasting, fruit fasting with many fruits or one fruit at a time,vegetables fasting, lemon water fasting,etc.

For more details you can contact your nearby naturopathy consultant .

What we should do during fasting:

Generally during fast we promote body to detoxify, please do proper rest  because body does regeneration or rejuvenation during sleep as our many studies said.  If you are busy on that day please avoid it that day. We should practice it with water, or what we choose for fasting methods. We should try to do enema to make it more effective, and have some cold or mud packs to abdominal area to make it more fasten.

Why it’s not for everyone; for those who is occupy with all time mental food thoughts ;). It’s all psychological  but it has to be self datermination not by forced..

 Please have healthy organic, fresh food when you break the fast. Slowly start the normal food under expert supervision to make intestines more healthy and comfortable.

Benefits of fasting:

• ·        The most important benefit is to cleanse our vital body (Annamaya kosha) and make mental control (Manomaya kosha) over cravings.
•      It helps to release extra fat from the body, revitalize the skin and organic body organs.
• ·        Fasting make us free from free radicals from the blood: it’s good for cancer, and other degeneration diseases.
• ·        We can remove all the side effects of medicines that we are taking or have taken earlier.

·        So we can improve our vital energy with fasting to make us healthy.

Now we have the basic fasting therapy to make balance of panchmahabhoot in our body to become healthy.

Happy and healthy fasting.

Absorbtion of VitaminD and vitamin B12 naturally

How to improve absorbtion of Vitamin D and vitamin B 12 naturally.

Vitamin D is also called as sunshine vitamin. It is actually metabolically inactive, and undergoes transformation in kidney-liver; It is synthesized in presence of adequate sunlight in body. Its forms are Vit D2 & D3. It enhances absorption of calcium & phosphorus, stimulates mineralization of bones, and helps in normal growth. It deficiency results weak bones and problem like rickets (in children), osteomalacia, symptoms are fracture tendency, general weakness, pain in bone-muscle. It sources are from milk products, but mainly from morning sunlight.

Ayurvedic approach to Vitamin D deficiency: Ahara Vihara-Adequate exposure to morning sunlight for a weekly minimum of 45-60 minute; Surya Namaskar; & adequate intake of Vitamin rich Diets such as: Cow’s milk,Ghee,Yoghurt, Paneer, fishes and egg yolks;Mushroom/white Mushroom,& milk and in fortified dairy and grain products , one thing if you can use traditional pickle receipie with mustard oil but without vinegar or any chemical preservatives and exposed in sunlight very well during processing.,Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin in that it is produced by the body in  response to skin being exposed to Morning Sunlight. One more thing we can also improves the absorption with magnesium uses as  in massage or having with water. It is also occurring naturally in a few food sources. Vitamin D is essential for strong bones, because it helps the body use calcium from the diet.

Vitamin B12 or Cyanocobalamin is a complex compound which helps in synthesis of DNA, fatty acid & myelin factor. Its deficiency results fatigue, weakness, tingling sensation in legs, memory loss,etc. It is commonly treated by supplementing with B12 capsules or in injected form. Normal nutrient source: Strictly speaking only animal source (meat, fish, egg…). Some references told about dal (pulses) and in fermented foods(some indian traditional reciepe need fermentation so they can be good sources of  this) etc. but its non-vegetarian food only which are direct source. So, the question, are all Vegetarians deficit of Vit B12 in lab reports? No, actually B12 is also synthesized with the help of bacteria. The milk products and the fermented products can be little source of B12.as we are taking too much of allopath antacid can also cause you vitamin b12 deficiency.

Your vitamin deficiency can be a side effect or over dosing effect of random medicine taken by self. Body has got its own self healing tendency, a physician is supposed to prescribe medicine just as supportive in healing

And it also have same importance  if your digestion is not good, can your body even absorb the popped up supplement or meet the repeated deficiency demand in long run. Please have self care first like have strong digestive fire ( Jatharagni )and healthy gut , that is a balanced diet-regimen for true healing not substitutes cap-tablet as initial medicine. Healing always comes in direct way not just short cut.