Honey: Health And Precautions

Honey: Health And Precautions

Today, many kinds of honey as well as honeyed preparations are available in the market. This needs to be taken into thoughtful consideration that although honey might be used with the understanding that it is better sweetener as compared to sugar. Yet, it is best to only buy raw honey (that which is unheated and minimally processed). Also, one more thing needs to be always kept in mind. In case you add honey to tea or milk, it is important to take care that you wait for the liquid to become lukewarm or at the room temperature, before adding honey to the same. This is for the reason that heating honey, or taking it mixed in hot drinks, or even in hot climatic conditions, honey tends to become toxic.

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Ayurvedic Facts About Curd That Could Be New For You!

Ayurveda, the ancient Indian wisdom Science of healing and healthcare conveys superb facts about curd or Dahi as called in Hindi.

Amazing Health Benefits Of Curd

·      Curd stimulates hunger and is therefore helpful in the malady of anorexia or the loss of hunger.

·      When there is fever with mixed origin which especially accompanies chills and tremors, curd proves beneficial.

·      Not only this, during the first stage of common cold, when there is watery discharge from the nose, Ayurveda recommends intake of curd.

·    Curd is likewise beneficial to be taken in the ailment of dysuria or painful and decreased urination.

·        Interestingly taking curd in diet is also regarded agreeable in the ailment of IBS or the Irritable bowel Syndrome. But in this case,  the curd needs to be prepared without any crème.

Natural Properties Of Curd

• ·      Curd is naturally sour both in taste as well as after-taste.
• ·       It tends to bind stools.
• ·     Also, curd has the natural demonstration of enhancing and increasing the fat tissue, mucous, semen, energy or stamina and swelling in the body ; and yet invigorates the Agni or the gastric fire.

Dosha Balancing Effect

Another property of curd conveys that curd is hot in potency and heavy by nature and therefore decreases and balances the Vata dosha or the Air body humor.

When Not To Eat Curd?

Curd is one health food that comes with a host of rules and regulations as counseled in Ayurvedic discipline. This means taking curd in diet needs to be avoided or restricted in some cases. And besides it has been conveyed that if these norms about how and when curd should be minimized in diet are not considered a matter of actual following, number of diseases could crop in. This includes ailments like fever, bleeding disorders, leprosy and other skin maladies, herpes, anemia, vertigo and other mental illnesses.

• ·      Taking curd at night, especially after the sun-set would do more harm than good. This is because this eating practice during the late hours tends to clog the minute channels of the body.
• ·        If the curd is not prepared properly, it is better to avoid the same.
• ·     Three seasons when you could better be without eating curd (you make butter-milk instead) is the Spring, Summers and the Autumn season.
• ·     Avoid heating the curd before ingestion in any case.
• ·    Also, Ayurveda suggests that you should not be taking this diet ingredient regularly every single day.
• ·   Not only this, there are some more diet articles that have been specified to be accompanying intake of curd in diet. These include Amla or the Indian Gooseberry, Mung dal or lentil, Sharkara which may comprise of the crystalline sugar (Mishri) or molasses, ghee or the clarified butter and honey.