Foods that Heal

FOODS THAT HEAL

Apples

Protects your heart
prevents constipation
Blocks diarrhea
Improves lung capacity
Cushions joints
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Apricots

Combats cancer
Controls blood pressure
Saves your eyesight
Shields against Alzheimer's
Slows aging process
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Artichokes


Aids digestion
Lowers cholesterol
Protects your heart
Stabilizes blood sugar
Guards against liver disease
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Avocadoes

Battles diabetes
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops strokes
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
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Bananas

Protects your heart
Quiets a cough
Strengthens bones
Controls blood pressure
Blocks diarrhea
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Beans

Prevents constipation
Helps hemorrhoids
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Stabilizes blood sugar
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Beets

Controls blood pressure
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
Protects your heart
Aids weight loss
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Blueberries

Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Stabilizes blood sugar
Boosts memory
Prevents constipation
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Broccoli

Strengthens bones
Saves eyesight
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
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Cabbage

Combats cancer
Prevents constipation
Promotes weight loss
Protects your heart
Helps hemorrhoids
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Cantaloupe

Saves eyesight
Controls blood pressure
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Supports immune system
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Carrots

Saves eyesight
Protects your heart
Prevents constipation
Combats cancer
Promotes weight loss
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Cauliflower


Protects against Prostate Cancer
Combats Breast Cancer
Strengthens bones
Banishes bruises
Guards against heart disease
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Cherries


Protects your heart
Combats Cancer
Ends insomnia
Slows aging process
Shields against Alzheimer's
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Chestnuts

Promotes weight loss
Protects your heart
Lowers cholesterol
Combats Cancer
Controls blood pressure
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Chilli Pepper

Aids digestion
Soothes sore throat
Clears sinuses
Combats Cancer
Boosts immune system
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Figs

Promotes weight loss
Helps stops strokes
Lowers cholesterol
Combats Cancer
Controls blood pressure
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Flax


Aids digestion
Battles diabetes
Protects your heart
Improves mental health
Boosts immune system
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Garlic

Lowers cholesterol
Controls blood pressure
Combats cancer
kills bacteria
Fights fungus
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Grapefruit

Protects against heart attacks
Promotes Weight loss
Helps stops strokes
Combats Prostate Cancer
Lowers cholesterol
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Grapes

saves eyesight
Conquers kidney stones
Combats cancer
Enhances blood flow
Protects your heart
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Green Tea

Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Helps stops strokes
Promotes Weight loss
Kills bacteria
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Honey

Heals wounds
Aids digestion
Guards against ulcers
Increases energy
Fights allergies
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Lemon

Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
Stops scurvy
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Limes

Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
Stops scurvy
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Mangoes

Combats cancer
Boosts memory
Regulates thyroid
aids digestion
Shields against Alzheimer's
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Mushrooms

Controls blood pressure
Lowers cholesterol
Kills bacteria
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
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Oats

Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Battles diabetes
prevents constipation
Smoothes skin
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Olive Oil

Protects your heart
Promotes Weight loss
Combats cancer
Battles diabetes
Smoothes skin
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Onions

Reduce risk of heart attack
Combats cancer
Kills bacteria
Lowers cholesterol
Fights fungus
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Oranges

Supports immune systems
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Strengthens respiration
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Peaches

prevents constipation
Combats cancer
Helps stops strokes
aids digestion
Helps hemorrhoids
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Peanuts

Protects against heart disease
Promotes Weight loss
Combats Prostate Cancer
Lowers cholesterol
Aggravates
diverticulitis
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Pineapple

Strengthens bones
Relieves colds
Aids digestion
Dissolves warts
Blocks diarrhea
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Prunes

Slows aging process
prevents constipation
boosts memory
Lowers cholesterol
Protects against heart disease
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Rice

Protects your heart
Battles diabetes
Conquers kidney stones
Combats cancer
Helps stops strokes
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Strawberries

Combats cancer
Protects your heart
boosts memory
Calms stress
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Sweet Potatoes

Saves your eyesight
Lifts mood
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
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Tomatoes

Protects prostate
Combats cancer
Lowers cholesterol
Protects your heart
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Walnuts

Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
boosts memory
Lifts mood
Protects against heart disease
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Water

Promotes Weight loss
Combats cancer
Conquers kidney stones
Smoothes skin
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Watermelon

Protects prostate
Promotes Weight loss
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops strokes
Controls blood pressure
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Wheat Germ

Combats Colon Cancer
prevents constipation
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops strokes
improves digestion
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Wheat Bran

Combats Colon Cancer
prevents constipation
Lowers cholesterol
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Remedies for cough

HOME REMEDIES FOR COUGH

Prepare a mixture by adding ½ teaspoon honey with ½ teaspoon lemon juice. Take this every 12 hours. Honey relieves the itchiness by moisturizing the throat passage


Take 0.5 pounds (250 gms) of sweet apples daily for a week to cure cough.


Soak almonds overnight and remove their skin. Make a paste of the soaked almonds with little butter and sugar. This is very useful for dry cough.


Mix 8 - 10 tablespoons of coconut milk with 1 tablespoon poppy seeds and 1 tablespoon of pure honey. Take this every night before going to bed.


Prepare a mixture by adding a teaspoonful of honey with a few drops of brandy. It helps to relieve cough.


Mix equal parts of limejuice and honey.


Combine a cup of grape juice and a teaspoon of honey. Mix well to prepare an effective natural cough remedy for coughing.


Mix 1 teaspoonful raw onion juice with 1 teaspoonful of honey. Keep it aside for 3 to 4 hours before drinking. This is an effective home remedy for cough.


Apply hot mustard pack on the chest. This brings down fever, eliminates toxins and speeds in recovery. If needed, repeat every other day for a week.


Deep breathe in front of an open window. This has multiple benefits. Exhaling vigorously rids the body of waste gases and deep inhalation saturates the lungs with oxygen.


Chop an onion finely, put it with a tablespoon of clear honey in a screw-top jar and leave overnight. In the morning, drinking a teaspoonful of the juice produced will give relief to cough.


For cough treatment, drink hot tea with lemon and raspberry jam, drink as much as possible.


Drink hot milk with honey at bedtime for cough relief.


Slice 2 snow pears into small pieces. Add 3 bowls of water and boil until the water has reduced to 2 bowls. Strain and discard the pears, and add 30 grams of rice to the liquid. Boil again until rice is cooked. Drink the soup.


Peel 50 grams fresh ginger and cut into small slices. Boil the slices with 100 grams maltose in 2 glasses water for 30 minutes. Drink it hot, twice a day, in one day. This is also an effective home remedy for cough.


Boil 20 red dates with 60 grams maltose in enough water. Eat once a day.


Prepare a mixture of 5 fresh-pitted olives and rock sugar; steam them for half an hour. Eat the olives to help with chronic coughs.


Steam 2 unpeeled tangerines with 30 grams rock sugar to relieve coughs with a yellowish mucous discharge. Eat the tangerines at bedtime.


In one cup of warm milk, add a pinch of turmeric powder (Haldi) and drink twice a day.


In one cup of warm milk, add 2 â€" 3 strands of saffron (kesar) and drink twice a day.


For cough treatment, Mix half a teaspoon of tulsi juice with half a teaspoon with ginger juice. Add 1 teaspoon of honey. Take the above mixture 2-3 times a day till symptoms subside.


Take 1 cup of water and add 4-5 leaves of tulsi; a small piece of ginger (adrak) and 1 teaspoon of jaggery. Boil this mixture over slow heat till the quantity becomes half a cup. Drink this at least 2 times in a day.

Face Masks

Face Masks for various skin types

A] Pack for Normal n Dry Skin
           
1tsp Multani mitti               


1tsp Rose water
1tsp glycerin or olive oil     

  
Mix together and make a paste.Apply on skin.Keep till dry.Then wash with plain water.



B] 1tsp flour                                    1tsp honey                      
                                             
                                           
 

                          ½ tsp orange juice
 
                                 

Mix together and make a paste.Apply on skin.Keep till dry.Then wash with plain water.

Remedies for Migrane

HOME REMEDIES FOR MIGRANES N HEADACHE

Place your thumbs right in the center of each temple Massage firmly using a circular motion for a minute or two, or until you feel relief.

A hot water bath or shower may also help to relieve the headache.

Eat 10-12 almonds, for a migraine headache.

                                                                                             
Make a compress by putting 5 drops of lavender essential oil in cold (or warm) water. Swish around a soft cloth, and then put it on your head or neck.

Put your hands in hot water, which seems to pull the pressure out of your head.

In some cases sleep gives relief to the headache. Sleeping on back give relief to the headache.

Deep breathing is a great tension reliever. Deep breathing gives immediate relief to the headache.

Tie a tight cloth around the head. It will decrease blood flow to the scalp and lessen the throbbing and pounding of a migraine.

Avoid chocolate, aged cheese, red wine, citrus fruits. These foods all contain tyramine or other histamines which have been shown to begin migraines in people with food sensitivities.

For natural cure for migraine headache, prepare a paste of freshly ground clay or freshly ground sandalwood and apply to the forehead, let dry, rub off by hand and wash.

Drink a teaspoon of honey in a glass of warm water or fill the stomach completely with water if not suffering from a cold.

Take equal parts of natural apple cider vinegar and water place in a small pan on the stove, allowing it to boil slowly. When the fumes begin to rise from the pan, lean your head over it until the fumes are comfortably strong. Inhale for approximately 50 to 80 breaths.

Juice of ripe grapes and is an effective home remedy for the migraine headache.

Niacin has proved helpful in relieving migraine pain. Valuable sources of this vitamin are yeast, whole wheat, green leafy vegetables, tomatoes, nuts, sunflower seeds, liver, and fish.

Take few leaves of the cabbage crush them, and then place in a cloth and bound on the forehead at bedtime, or when convenient during the day. The Compress should be renewed when the leaves dry out.

Make a paste of the lemon crust. The paste should be applied, like a plaster on the forehead. It will provide great relief.

Carrot juice along with spinach, or beet and cucumber juices, has been found beneficial in the treatment of migraine. In the first combination, 200 ml of spinach juice may be mixed with 300 ml of carrot juice to prepare 500 ml or half a litre of the combined juices. In the second combination, 100 ml each of beet and cucumber juices may be mixed with 300 ml of carrot juice. This is very effective home remedy for headache and migraines. 


The patient should eat frequent small meals rather than a few large ones. Overeating should be avoided. Copious drinking of water is beneficial.

Make a solution by adding half a teaspoon mustard seeds powder and three teaspoons water, put in the nostrils, it helps to decrease the migraine.

A peppermint steam inhalation provides quick relief for sinus headaches.

Mix 1 teaspoon finely ground cinnamon (called dalchini in India) in 1-teaspoon water and applies on the forehead. It is very effective in headache due to exposure to cold air.

Make a paste from dry ginger with a little water or milk, apply to the forehead for relief of the headache due to sinusitis.

Make a paste of 10-15 Basil leaves with 4 cloves and 1 teaspoon dried ginger and apply to forehead for sinus cure.

Cut a potato into 4 pieces, place 2 in the center of your forehead and two at your temple (Hold the ones at your temples in place). Lie down in a dark room and close your eyes. It takes a while to work but it takes away the pain. This is very effective home remedy for headache and migraines.