Juice Therapy: How is Juice Therapy Practiced?

The term ‘Juice’ stands for liquified extract of fruits, herbs, vegetables, flowers etc. Juice is the purest form of a food product from which liquid is extracted. Some of the best forms of juices are extracted from fruits and vegetables which have plenty of pulp and water in them. If there is plenty of green vegetables in our meals we get lot of nutrients. ‘Vegetables’ encompass everything that grows underneath, on and above earth. This way fruits are a part of vegetable kingdom.

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Juice Therapy: How to Use Edible Fruits and Vegetables

As far as fruits are concerned, they should be washed properly in the fresh water, their outer skin and seeds or other hard parts should be severed. This should be used either orally or juice extracted from them. Juice is the easiest way to digest contents of a fruit. Tinned fruit juices should always be avoided, as far as possible because, by their processing and canning procedures, most (if not all) nutrients are destroyed.

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Juice Therapy: Why Do We Fall Ill?

Any person can fall ill but our body is such a perfect mechanism that it discharges all the toxins and foreign elements of the body through various orifices. If any one of the excretory organs is diseased, it fails to excrete the toxins from human body and the poisonous and useless matters create various health problems.

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Juice Therapy: Juice Therapy vs Drugs

By the word ‘drugs’ we mean all such branded or generic medicines which are prescribed and used. Dissemination of medicinal and medical aspects, through Audio, Video and other media have generated general awareness and awakening even among village folk. This has given impetus to self-medication and counter-selling – not to speak of quackery and their trade pranks.

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Juice Therapy: Essential Foods Nutrients Required for the Body

The word ‘Nutrient’ means serving as or providing nourishment, through nourishing food. If food is to remain balanced, it must have certain essential ingredients. A wholesome food means a sort of combination of such food items which contain, in a requisite and proportionate quantity, necessary vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, fats, fruits, vegetables, food grains, animal foods etc.

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Juice Therapy: Juice for Healthy Living— For all age-Groups

A new-born infant is often fed and nurtured on mother’s milk but, after the infant crosses six months he is given apple, orange and lime juice, though in a very moderate and measured quantity, to supplement his growth requirements, in addition to supplementation by liquified cereals. As the child grows, his food requirements are also changed.

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Juice Therapy: Classification of Ailments

What is an Ailment? Heart, kidneys, Brain, Liver and lungs are the major organs with each one of which rest of the body-organs function, and are also motivated, guided and activated to act.- Blood is the life-line of all living beings. According to ayurveda kapha (Phlegm), Vata (Air, Wind), Pitta (Bile) are basic constituents and causative factors for giving rise to physical disorders which appear only when there is a proportionate imbalance in the said three carriers.

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Juice Therapy: Therapeutic Properties of Garlic Juice

Use of Garlic in home preparations

In scriptures it is said that it is an offshoot of Nectar (Amritodbhava) and thus is a divine gift. It contains all the Rasas (Liquefied extracts), excepting alkaline extract. It is rich in mineral salts (1%), Protein (6.3%), Phosphorus (0.31%), Fat (0.1%). Besides this nutritive food value it is also rich in sugar, minerals, vitamins (AB and C) Iron etc. Its taste is pungent and gives out foul smell.

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Juice Therapy: Therapeutic Properties of Tomato Juice

Tomato hardly needs introduction, as it is used in raw forms, in salads, cooked vegetables and meat, juice form raita, chutney, jams. It is full of Vitamins A B, and C and also is rich in potassium salt and iron. Even heat cannot destroy its vitamins and is useful and tasty, also adding to taste of other eatables with which it is added.

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