Month: December 2016

Bangal Kins (Bael, Aegle Marmelos, Bel)

Bael is a sacred tree, as its flowers, leaves and flowers are used of worshipping Lord Shiva. Its wood is also used for sacrificial performances. In unripe form, its rind is very hard and green or greenish yellow but, when ripe its pulp becomes sweet and rind also becomes reddish yellow. Its tree is found all over India. Ripe bael fruit is laxative, delicious, aromatic and the unripe fruit is used as a useful ingredient for medicinal purposes.

Chemical Properties: Water-6l.5 gms, Food-64 gms, Protein 1.8%, Fat-0.3%, Carbohydrates 31.8%, Calcium 85 mg, Iron 0.6%, Calories 137, Mineral Salts-1.7%. In addition to it, it also contains Karotin-O.92% mg, Vitamin B-l-1.19, Niacan lmg and vitamin ‘C-8 mg (in 100 gms of bael). Bael (and its rind) is also rich in tannic acid, potassium and sodium compounds, lime, iron, phosphates, magnesium, silica, calcium carbonate. Mucilage pectin is found in its pulp, tannin, volatile oil, bitter element and ash (20%) and fructose (sugar content of fruit). When its leaves are distilled, they shell out green-yellowish coloured oil which has bitter taste and aromatic odour.

Curative and Medicinal Properties of Bangal Kins:

Dysentery and Diarrhoea: Its pulp of ripe fruit retards diarrhoea or else unripe pulp of bangal kin, if taken with whey will control loose motions and also give soothing effect to intestinal irritation and impaction or, still better, prepare a blend of ripe and unripe pulps by boiling them together in hot water. The resultant strained liquid will remove acidity and also control repetition of loose motions, whether of dysentery or diarrhoeal origin.

Jam of bangal kins is also frequently used to quell ravages of both the said disorders, including expulsion of flatus. A decoction of unripe fruit, mixed with sugar-candy, will also control dysentery.

Vomiting: Preparation of decoction of unripe fruit- will control vomiting. Vomiting, during pregnancy, can be suitably controlled by mixing pulp of ripe fruit with water, obtained after boiling rice, and adding some sugar-candy to it.

Effects and Prevention of Heat: Mash and strain pulp of ripe fruit and add water to it, to convert it into a palatable dilution. If a glassful is taken of this preparation, before moving out in the scorching heat of sun, it will not let the heat affect the body.

Acne, Freckles and Blemishes: Apply pulp of ripe fruit on the affected organs of body, and let it remain there for 15-20 minutes and thereafter wash off the application. It will remove freckles and blemishes. Apply juice of raw fruit on face to get rid of acne. This will also help in getting rid of freckles and blemishes. In addition, if juice or pulp of ripe fruit is eaten (say 250 gms or so) daily, it will give extra nourishment, glow, lustre and smoothness to skin. It will also restore general good health of the skin.

General Uses: To recapitulate, Bangal kins, taken in any form (milk of unripe fruit, pulp of ripe fruit as also or unripe fruit) is of immense medicinal and nutritive values, if eaten in moderate quantity or if taken in its juice form. Generally, it is taken ripe form. It is used quite often in high blood pressure; itching, eczema and ringworm, tonsillitis, to increase milk in breasts of mothers who have no or deficient milk in their breasts; intestinal worms, stranging while or before urinating; Filaria, enlargement and torpidity of liver and spleen, fever, dandruff, menstrual irregularities as also other disorders etc.

POMEGRANATE (ANAR, DADIM, PUNICA GRANATUM)

It is grown almost in every part of the country and its quantity, food content, weight, colour, juicy element depends on the soil on which its trees grow. It needs hardly any introduction, since it is widely grown and used all over our country due to its curative, medicinal and nutritive values. It is equally beneficial in health and disease. Best quality of pomegranates is grown in Kandhar, Kabul and some Arabian Countries.

‘Kandhari Anar’ is even now pick of all its varieties, as it is larger in size,very juicy red from within and without, has larger seeds. ‘EK Anar, Sau Beemar’ is an opt-repeated adage, followed closely by ‘Eat Pomegranate for it purges the system of envy and hatred.’ Both adages highly bespeak of physical and spiritual sides of this unique fruit as it not only rids the body of many disorders but also rids the body of two (personal) repugnant traits, envy and hatred. The fruit is orange-shaped but its skin is leathery which has red to brownish yellow colour.

Its taste is sweetish sour. Its fruit, rind, seeds, juice, roots have many medicinal values. Another variety is bedaana which is a reservoir of strength. It dispels bad effects of wind; controls, bile and phlegm, improves appetite, is digestive and carminative, adds to haemoglobin and purifies blood. It also removes flatulence and acidity.

Curative and Chemical Properties : It is rich in B and C Vitamins with plenty of Citric Acid. Its fresh juice is an excellent cooling beverage, is preventive of heat stroke and also cures fall-out effect of heat stroke, quenches thirst, useful in sickness and fever. Its juice is an invigorating tonic. The syrup prepared from fresh fruits, is an excellent remedy and also a tonic for digestive system. It is equally useful for the students and senile persons, who have weak memory and often fall prey to forgetfulness and memory impairment, as it fortifies memory, juice of its flowers is used in cases of nose-bleeding as a suiff (epestaxis).

To get further benefits, its juice should be mixed up with honey (5-10 ml in 250 ml of juice of pomegranate juice), to restore, sharpen and preserve memory. It is also used in various uterine disorders, including uterine ulcers. It also expels worms, provides relief in Typhoid, Bronchitis and sore throat. Being an appetiser par excellence, it not only induces natural appetite but also helps the system in digestion. In Ayurveda, origin and cause of diseases is attributed to malfunctioning of stomach. That is to say that, if the stomach is diseased and disordered, it can be responsible for many diseases. Pomegranate is a fruit that keeps the stomach and other organs of digestion in good humour, hence its use in multiple diseases.

Curative and medicinal uses of Pomegranate:

Indigestion: Add finely powdered/ground and roasted cumin seeds and jaggery to 20-25 ml fresh juice, with a pinch of salt, to get relief from indigestion, acidity, sour eructations, gas formations, rumbling in abdomen and loose motions too. Stomach ache can be relieved if its seeds are taken daily, sprinkled by black pepper and rock salt.

Tonic: Fresh juice of ripe pomegranates (say about 100-150ml), alone or mixed with fresh tomato juice will regulate bowels, tone up entire system, improve circulation of blood, increase RBCs, improve and nourish skin, purge out foreign bodies. It will also strengthen and regulate cardiac rhythm. If desired, a few drops of lemon juice may also be added to it. Those who have some allergy to use of its juice, should suck juice from its seeds.

Diarrhoea and Dysentery: Take about 50-70 ml of juice of pomegranate, add powder of two cloves to it and take it, after a gap of 6-8 hours. Alternatively, grind its dried rind and mix it with Triphala (Both in equal quantity) and take a teaspoonful with whey to seek total relief from both the maladies. If whey does not suit (agree), then the powder may be taken with juice of pomegranate.

Epistaxis (Nose-Bleeding): Pour 2-4 drops of its juice in each, nostril. Half cupful of juice, mixed with sugar-candy, will relieve instant problem and, if continued for sometime will provide an almost permanent immunity from nose-bleeding. Some say that even smelling fresh rind of the fruit can also give instant relief. Further, juice of fresh leaves and semi-ripe pomegranate, if mixed together,will relieve dysentery.

Fever: As mentioned earlier also, its fruit juice quencher-thirst and provides coolness to body and brings down fever, especially if caused by effects of summer-heat, since it is a great febrifuge. During course of fever, if the patient is fed only with juice of pomegranate, it will meet bulk of his food requirements.

Spleen Enlargement: Juice of dried pomegranate root with milk is very efficacious in enlargement of spleen. In addition, it will also remove general debility.

Typhoid Fever: Give diluted sherbat, prepared from ripe fruit, in typhoidal fever. It will also be beneficial in asthmatic fevers and gastric problems.

Worms: Grind rind of (dried) pomegranate and boil on slow fire. Use when cooled in 15-20 ml dose, thrice daily, or else grind finely rinds of orange and pomegranate (5 mg per dose), add some rock salt to it.

Blood pressure (High): Take 1/2 cup of fresh fruit juice twice daily.

Loss of memory: Fresh fruit juice, mixed with honey, is an excellent memory restorer and also rejuvenator.

Pomegranate is freely used in household preparations in the form of chutney, in preparing various spices and recipes. It adds extra taste to food articles. If one wishes to have his appetite improved, its juice should always be taken before lunch and dinner. Habitual drunkards will do well to take their spirituous liquors mixed with the fruit juice of pomegranate or else they can have it after finishing their drinks or even after lunch or dinner. The fruit juice will also help to subdue craving for alcohol, in addition to help in digestive process. Hence use of pomegranate will keep up general well-being of the body.

JAMBUL TREE (JAMUN, EUGENIA JAMBOLANA)

It is fruit of summer and raining seasons. It has a hard seed in it. Its colour is dark indigo, blackish-brown, cherry-colour. Highest quality is called ‘Rajajambu’ (grown by grafting) which is sweet, tasty, watery, has enough of pulp and a small seed. The medium variety has bigger seed, less of pulp and water and its taste is also has bigger seed, less of pulp and water, and its taste is also not sweetish. Price of jambul will depend on its pulp content and large size. Its juice can stain clothes, hands, lips and inner mouth.

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Coconut is a divine fruit and is also called ‘Jivan Taru’ (A tree which imparts life). No religious rite marriage ceremony, opening ceremony of a new house, shop, enterprise, auspicious occasion is considered where there is no coconut.. It is an auspicious and sacred offering for performing pooja in Hindus. On all happy and religious occasions coconut is a must because it is considered auspicious sacred, pious and holy. Its use in various recipes, vegetables, for garnishing purposes, various uses in sweetmeats, chutneys etc. is an ample proof of its muhiple uses and utility.

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ASIATIC GREEVIA (PHALSA)

Asiatic Greevia is found all over the country. It is rich in iodine and Vitamin ‘C\ Ripe fruit is taken raw or in juice form. It has very soft skin and pulp but its stone is quite hard. Only its pulp and skin are used for juicing purposes. It removes bad effects of heat, is cool and controls and modifies bile in the system. It quenches thirst, expels toxins from the body, is diuretic, removes burning sensation from the urine, fortifies and strengthens heart, abates palpitation and is, thus, rightly called a tonic for the heart.

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WATER MELON (TARBOOZ, KALINDA, CITRULLS VULGARIS)

Water-melon is a well-known summer fruit. Its superior variety grows in Rajasthan, where it is known as ‘Matira’ and this particular variety can last even for months together but other varieties, grown in other parts of the country, do not last long (say not beyond 7-8 days). It is a water-laden fruit, available mostly in summer season. Its rind is green and hard, seeds black or white, its pulp is red.

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TODDY PALM (TAL, BORASSUS FIABELLITER LINN)

Toddy-palm is abundantly grown in moist climate and coastal areas. It is famous for its sweetish juice which flows from a ‘cut’ made on the flowering stalk of the tree. It has cooling effect. It is stimulant, dispels phlegm and stops further production thereof, it antiphilogistic, laxative. Medicinally,, its juice is used to eliminate dropsy, gastric catarrh, inflammatory states. Its juice is given in TB also and, for this, the patient should drink a glassful of fresh juice for 2-3 months.

It is also given in diabetes, after it has been mildly fermented. In pthisis (TB) it is also given with an addition of aromatus (in addition to fresh juice). When palm juice has been fennented, it is used as a toxic liquor and for its low price, is very popular and frequently used by working and poor classes. In liver troubles, veneral diseases (gleet, in particular), as an antidote to poisoning. As a sweetener, it is frequently used in its sugar form. Its Jaggery (Gur), is an appetiser,. rejuvenator, a shield against cold, cough and sputum.

Best form of palm derivatives is its fresh juice which has medicinal, curative and health boosting qualities. A word here about fermented juice wliich is sold and consumed in lieu of popular IMFL (Indian made foreign liquour). Scores of people die after drinking fennented juice of palm. If the liquor is well protected from insects, mosquitoes and poisonous species of such nature, and is also not exposed to any poisonous object, it can do no harm, except causing bearable intoxication but it becomes a killer drink if some poisonous insects gain entry into it.

Whether used in pure juice, jaggery or fermented form, it must remain free from dust, insects and other poisonous matters. In a way its juice (fresh) is a tonic for the whole body. Gandhi ji named its juice as “NEERA” which is diuretic, nutritive and prophylactic drink. It also tones up nervous system.

SUGAR CANE

Like plain juice, sugar cane juice should also be consumed in raw and fresh form. Molasses, khansari (Desi khand), jaggery (Gur). Aconitic acid, bagasse are the bye-products of juice of sugar cane. It consists of sucrose 20%, invert sugar 0-2%, Fibre 8 to 16%; and water 75%. Its juice quenches thirst, is tonic and rejuvenator and nutritious drink during summer months; protects body from heat and also from bad effects of heat and sun-stroke. If taken with fresh milk, it provides instant energy.

In collapse stages, it should be given for providing heat and strength to the body. ‘Kheer’ of sugar-cane juice (fresh), milk and fine quality rice are boiled on slow fire, for being converted into a palatable and healthy dish. Diabetics and persons with poor digestion and torpid livers should never drink juice o£ sugarcane or any of its bye-products. Those who consider themselves healthy should take its juice in very moderate quantity, because it is capable of causing loose motions. But, those who have costive bowels or persons with chronic constipation, having low vitality, sparingly built (but not diabetics) should take its juice as long as and in as much quantity, as is required, until they are freed from aforesaid symptoms.

Too much use of jaggery can cause skin eruptions, boils, pimples etc; hence persons prone and amenable to skin infections, should use all its products with much care. Some people mix up juices of tomato/carrot and sugar cane also for removal of debility and also to gain instant energy. Sugar cane is an easily available and cheep product and its juice gives in return, much more than one pays for it, but judicious caution is still advised on its selective use.

Commercially, Sugar cane juice is utilised for processing glucose of which its juice is a main ingredient. Being rich in sucrose it is a source of instant energy. It is maintained that taking seme jaggery (Gur) after meals helps to digest food. Workers, working on stone-crushing machines, those who have to inhale dust quite often, fall victims to cough, 1 aboured breathing congestion of lungs and other respiratory problems, should take about 100 gms of jaggery, which is an abundant in alkalinity, will have most of such health problems eliminated, in addition to helping them to better digestion and expulsion of dust particles, sputum, clearance of lungs and, above all, provide them much needed strength. Taking syrup of jaggery, diluted with fresh water, will also enhance their physical well-being and also help in restoring good and sound health.

Due to its cost-effective factors and high food values, its juice is preferred to branded cold drinks and synthetic, canned and artificial juices. But it must be taken in fresh form only—free from dust, flies and other atmospheric bad effects. Taken in moderate quantity and divided doses, it is a boon to all but, if taken in excess and repeated quite frequently, it can prove quite harmful too. It should be taken never on empty stomach. Certain varieties of sugar cane juice have not much sugar content and, thus, they are easily digested also. Clarified crystal sugar is processed chemically and, thus loses much of its nutrient value. Crystal sugar is said to be more harmful, and its intake should be restricted after 40 years of age, as it causes more harm than any good.

PEAR (NASHPATI)

It is found in temperate zones. In Sanskrit, it is called ‘Amrit PhaP (A nectarine fruit), it has two varieties, one quite soft and. the other quite hard. The price factor determines its quality—Pear having soft pulp and skin is more expensive but the one which has hard pulp and skin is a bit cheaper but the food value does not vary much.

It is juicy fruit and its seed is quite hard, almost akin to apple-seed. Its juice is quite light to digest but its skin is not utilised while eating (of hard skinned variety only) but the fruit, with soft pulp has very soft skin and is often not severed from the pulp. It is digestive, easy to digest, carminative, keeps skin healthy, is a mild laxative, removes anaemic conditions, fever, dysentery and diarrhoea, cold, cough, as it is rich in mineral and vitamins. Its fermented juice is almost like ‘Cider’

Pear is also useful in heartburn, in acidity, removing thirst. It is claimed to be more useful than apple even, because it contains tartaric Acid and Gallic acid. It is especially useful before, during and after fever-—if given before fever it helps to prevent it, if given during fever, it helps to ameliorate symptomatic complications and, if given after fever, it helps to remove weakness and also restores the system to normalcy. Its juice helps also to eradicate diseases of perverted or weakened appetite, is an appetiser, is digestive.

Its juice is also useful to fortify strength of heart, mental faculties, alacrity. Its judicious and selective use helps to maintain balance in ‘Tridoshas’ (cough, bile and wind). Persons easily amenable to catching cold, even on slightest climatic changes, those who are phlegmatic, whose spleen malfunctions, should continuously use it, particularly in unripe form. Its skin should also be removed, particularly of the coarse varieties of pear.

BASIL (TULSI, OCIMUM SANCTUM)

Basil is no alien to Indian homes and is often grown therein as a holy plant. It is a holy plant and is worshipped due to its health and medicinal properties. It is neither used in the form of cooked vegetables nor is it used in fruit juice form. It is said that it keeps the homes free from germs and insects. Black Tulsi is considered to be more useful than the ordinary variety.

Its flowers and oval-shaped leaves are used to get rid of many disorders. All medicinal and purifying qualities of basil are attributed to its volatile oil. It is pungent in taste and is an excellent appetiser. It improves digestion, is of immense value in arresting excess of bile in the system, controls and dispels the phlegm, flatulence and purifies blood impurities. Not only its seeds and leaves, but its stems, shoots and roots are also used to dispel many a disease. Its use in juice form, raw green leaves or dried up leaves (under shade only), either alone or in combination with other ingredients which help to enhance its utility, us will be evident from following revelations.

Digestive disorders: Indigestion and ache in stomach can be cured and controlled by taking 5 ml mixture of equal quantity of basil and ginger juice. Nausea and vomiting can be contained by mixing basil juice with a little of powdered Cardamom and honey. Excess of bile formation can be regulated by taking onions, ginger and basil juices in equal quantities.

Intestinal worms can be expelled by taking 5 ml of basil juice. If one has repeated complaints and discomforts due to indigestion and flatulence, one should take, after major meals, mixture of ginger and basil (5 ml in all), adding some black salt and black pepper powder to it. Loose motions and diarrhoea can be controlled by preparing a decoction of sugar and basil leaves.

Hysteria, Headache, Insomnia: To induce sleep, keep thymol and basil leaves under pillow. Add some pepper (black) with basil juice and store in a well covered up bottle to be smelt daily to have relief in hysteria and hysterical fits—It is both preventive and curative. For relief in headache, apply camphor mixed basil juice on forehead. If this preparation is inhaled (without being inserted into nostrils) it will also remove nasal blockage and congestion, thus facilitating respiratory process.

Skin Disorders: To get relief from acne, itching, pimples, blackheads, black spots and various other skin disorders apply lemon juice, mixed basil juice on affected parts.

Respiratory Problems: Basil is a specific remedy for providing relief in most of the respiratory problems which are symptoms only but their originating causes lie somewhere else. Following suggestions may be tried.

(1) Infantile cough, vomiting, loose motions, cough can be controlled if 3-4 drops of basil are mixed with mother’s milk.
(2) To tone up respiratory process mix up, in equal quantity juices of basil and ginger, and some honey and then lick it.
(3) Add sugar candy (10 mg) to 5 ml juice of basil and piper longum powder to have chest pain, fever and dry cough relieved. It may cause excessive perspiration which is a welcome sign.

APRICOT (KHOMANI)

Its pit is soft like a plum but more winged and broader. It is round or rounded oblong but it is akin to peach in appearance. Its flesh is yellow or orangish yellow in colour. It is available all over the world and its kernel, if soft, is used in eating also. Its stone is quite hard and has an almond-like seed within it which, if sweet, is also eaten. It is eaten fresh, in custard or is canned. It is also dried up and used as a dry fruit. Its taste is sweet with some citrus tinge with it. In India, it is generally grown and found in hilly areas.

It is taken in raw form also. It has natural sugar content and is also rich in vitamin ‘A’. In off season, its canned juice is used to keep up health and also to get rid of nausea and vomiting. Iron is found, in abundance, in its dried variety. Us size, shape juicy content, size of kernel and the seed vary according to qualities of the soil on which it is grown.

MULBERRY (SHAHTOOT)

It is grown in hilly forests. Its colour is either green, yellowish green, dark brown or reddish black, though its food value remains unchanged. It is a favourite food for the silk worms. It cannot be preserved for more than 1-2 days, and that also when a water-soaked cloth cover is provided to keep it fully covered. Unripe fruit may cause heat and bile, besides being hard to digest but ripe fruit is sweet, dispels impurities of blood and does not let bile to increase.

It makes up for the deficiency of intake of water, removes thirst, dispels heat, helps to digest food. For brain fag, use its juice in the form of syrup. It is preventive of heat and keeps body cool. Pomegranate juice and honey also counteract bad effects of its excessive use. Its juice (or raw form) should always be extracted fresh and used instantly.

LICHI

Lichi is no alien name and is a frequently used fruit. It is available in U.P., West Bengal and Bihar. Lichi of Dehradoon is red and small-sized and is abundant in sugar content, has water and soft pulp. Lichi of Bihar (Muzaffarpur) is not big in size and is abundant in sugar content. But lichi of Bengal is bigger in size, red and highly juicy, but does not have much sugar content. Its stone is also small and soft. It has plenty of soft pulp. It is taken in raw form, after removing its outer rind and its stone is also not used.

Lichi is processed to prepare jam, syrup and jelly. Its juice is canned. Being available in summer months, it quenches thirst, dispels, bad effects of heat, keeps body cool, serves as a laxative, removes constipation, It prevents sun-stroke and heat-stroke. If its juice is given after bad effects of heat-stroke, it will do away with its bad effects. It should be taken in moderate quantity only and never in excessive quantity, as it can cause bleeding and urinary problem. Diabetics can take it in very moderate quantity for a changeover only but not as a substitute for fruit juices of other fruits. In addition to being sweet in taste, it is slightly citrus also and thus can help in digestive process, if taken after meals.

Generals Remarks on Fruits Juices

Fruit juices should always be extracted, mechanically or manually. Only at your homes. Always use fresh fruit for juicing purposes and juice should be extracted for the quantity which is desired and required to be utilized. Once juice has been extracted, it should never be stored in a fridge or any other device. Moreover, do not also store, cut/chopped/ sliced pieces of fruits, in advance, or in anticipation of juice extraction at a late hour.

Dust-ridden, pre-extracted, exposed to germs and bacteria, stale, pre-sliced, residual juice should never be taken because it is capable of causing more harm than good. Instead of being a potent vehicle for improving health, giving succour to the ailing, aiding in removal of diseases, such unhygienic and exposed fruit or their juices will expose the body system to many other health hazards.

Fruits juice is a boon to the ailing, healthy, old, young and infants. It should never be taken stomachful or heated on fire, exposed to sun, cooled down by ice or any other cooling agent (excepting, of course, where otherwise specifically mentioned or when the situation demands so). It should always, as far as possible, be taken in its pure form. Taste and avarice for palate satiation must not take precedence over its use for health reasons. Do not add anything to it—take it in pure, bland and undiluted form, adding only permissible ingredients, only when situation warrants.

Fruit juice is an instant restorer of energy. It is nature’s gift to mankind to compensate for the lost and exhausted energy, at not much cost. If used judiciously, in moderate and requisite quantity, it will not only enhance general health status of person but will also serve as a prophylactic device. Those who cannot digest any food item can live only on fruit juice. So, it is an excellent food substitute, beside being curative and a tonic but the only precondition is that it must be fresh, pure, and taken moderate, and requisite quantity only.

Blending of various fruit juices with vegetables is quite useful in health and diseased states. Fruits available in off-season should always be avoided, because they are neither nutrient nor useful. Some authorities are against blending of fruit and vegetable juices. Their reason being that both have varying digestive durations—fruits get digested much earlier than the vegetables.

General view: ‘Germs do not cause disease but they appear in the same way as flies do when garbage is lying about. Where there is garbage, there are flies and germs. So, if the human body is kept free from any garbage or filth or waste products, then it can remain free of disease.’ This is what Dr. Stanley Davidson has opined about presence and causation of diseases in human body.

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(High) Blood Pressure: It is commonly known as hypertension and its main cause is inflexible hard arteries (arterio-sclerosis), sedentary life, worries and anxieties of modern way of living, excessive use of fats, spices, tobacco, alcohol etc. are the usual factors which precipitate rise of blood pressure. Treatment, through juice therapy is the same, as suggested under arterio-sclerosis and angina (pectoris). Try to eliminate, to the best possible extent, the basic causes which trigger off the disease. But to hasten the curative effects add also tomato and marmelos juice.

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Allergic Disorders: Allergic conditions are caused by aversion, unsuitability or sensitivity to certain foods, weather conditions, pre-sence of excessive heat in the body, habitual and chronic constipation, certain psychic and emotional disturbances. Except margosa, treatment is the same, as suggested under ‘acne’ above. Avoid the allergy causing substances such as, extremes of cold, exposure to cold, sun and heat; dust; eggs, -meat, fish, prawn, chillies, beet, carrots. Allergy may manifest itself in the form of high fever, skin eruptions like pimples, itching (even pruritis), urticarea (netlle-rash), eczema, cough, cold, asthmetic problems, digestive disorders etc.

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