Everyone who cooks must know the medicinal properties of the ingredients they use! Helps maintain a healthy diet and quick home remedies for your family when the need arises. Sharing some of those that I found useful and beneficial for various reasons over the years!
- Helps as a cure for asthma, sinus, bronchitis, headaches, depression and tension
- At the onset of any of the conditions, chew a few leaves for quick relief. Not as much useful when condition has progressed over few days/weeks.
- Can be eaten as raw leaves (have a bitter taste)
- Can be had as a tea
- Soak them in water and leave it for an hour, then drink it -hot or cold
- Some use it as a food seasoning as well
- Stimulates brain activity
- Aids digestion
- Used as a food seasoning
- A pinch should suffice
- Too much might put one to sleep
- Helpful to dissolve kidney stones, menopause, fluid retention problems, abdominal and/or pelvic inflammation, swelling and pain
- Put it in a blender and add it to yoghurt or water and have it as a drink
- When blended with yoghurt and consumed, helps regulate menstrual cycle
- Helps reduce insomnia, reduces anger
- Helpful in regulating menstrual and menopause cycles
- Add rose water to drinks
- Add dried rose petals to tea
- Rose perfumes and essential oils for bath and cosmetic products
- It is a first aid kit that needs to be in every mother’s handbag
- Helpful in treating insect bites, stings, acne, poison ivy rashes, fungus, yeast and bacterial infections
- Can be topically applied (immediately after an insect bite/rash appears), used as an essential oil for inhalation, and added to baths
- One of the most medicinal items in the ktichen
- Helps build immunity, good for digestion, cough, arthritis, wounds, bruises, and anxiety
- A pinch of turmeric added to a dish distinctly brings out the flavor
- Mixed with water and make a paste, apply this paste to the wounds/bruises helps reduce infections and is equivalent to first-aid
- Helps aid digestion, relief from cough, cold & congestion
- Helps migraine relief
- Consumed as a seasoning added to foods, soups
- Ginger tea is quite famous across cultures to help relieve chest congestion and cough
- Fennel seeds are best form of mouth freshener and helps aid digestion
- It has antiseptic properties and can be used as a laxative as well
- Helps decongest liver
- Lightly roasted in oil and added as a seasoning to dishes (aroma fills the kitchen)
- Eaten plain at the end of the meal as a mouth freshener and digestant
- Helpful in reducing respiratory problems, infections and indigestion
- Used in food seasoning
- Light roasted in oil and added to the dish
- Helpful to reduce scalp dryness
- Helps lower blood sugar
- Reduces menstrual cramps when eaten with yoghurt
- Balances blood cholesterol
- Helps maintain liver and kidney health
- Soothes muscle pain
- Added as a seasoning to foods, either boiled with the dish or slightly roasted in oil and then added to the dish
