Turmeric – Vital Role

In Indian culture from Kashmir to Kanyakumari Turmeric plays a vital role.

The first pooja and prayers offered are done to the idol of Ganapati the god of obstacles, using turmeric paste for devotional prayers during festivals and other auspicious moments.

Turmeric is one of the main ingredients in all poojas.
It is added to the holy water used for Abhishekam, (Holy Bath) to the idols. In marriages, and women-centric rituals, the turmeric paste is applied on the feet of women followed as a tradition for ages.
It is considered sacred and holy and is added with raw rice (Akshithalu), used in marriages as Talambralu.
It is to be noted here that this tradition is passed on by elders with a belief that applying Turmeric paste on door frames does not allow harmful insects and bacteria, thus avoiding unnecessary diseases.
Women working in the wet places of the house, near wells, apply Turmeric paste to their feet to avoid bacterial infections.

Different uses in safeguarding the health

Immediate relief from cold and clogged nose

On a charcoal fire put turmeric powder and inhale the smoke or Turmeric powder put in hot water can be steamed for immediate relief of cold and clogged nose.

For cracks in the heel

Wash the cracked heel area thoroughly pat dry, make a paste of Turmeric powder and curd or turmeric powder and Castrol oil will do away with a cracked heel.

For pain in the ankle and fungal nail infection

Limestone powder and Turmeric powder added with little water and applied on an affected area of ankle pain and fungal nail infections will be cured.

Diabetics

Turmeric powder 50 grams, and Amla (Gooseberry) powder 50 grams, mixed well and stored, used twice a day half an hour before food with 100 ml water, buttermilk or milk is a good remedy for diabetes.

Cough, Sneezing, etc., allergies

Turmeric powder, clove powder, cinnamon powder, japatri (Mace) powder mix 5 grams each of these powders, and consuming 3 or 4 pinches of mixed powder twice a day morning or evening with sufficient honey will keep the allergies away.

To reduce the body odor

Turmeric powder, bavanchalu powder, Vetiver powder, Kacgorala powder 50 grams each mix well apply at the time of bath on wet skin will reduce body odor.

Eczema, fungal skin infections, and itchy skin diseases

Turmeric powder with tender neem leaves made as a smooth paste applied on the affected area along with consuming 1 gram of Turmeric powder in 100 ml of buttermilk twice a day relieves skin diseases.

Rashes on the skin

Take 100 grams of Turmeric powder, 25 grams of pepper powder, 25 grams of cow ghee, and 15 to 20 grams of whole elachi powder. In an iron pan heat, cow ghee add Turmeric powder, and fry till it changes the color a little.

Mix the remaining pepper powder, and elachi powder and store the mixture in a separate container. Half an hour before the food in 100 ml of milk add half a teaspoon of the powder and one teaspoon of sugar mix well and consume regularly will relieve rashes on the skin.

Reducing Isnophilia

In one portion of Turmeric powder add half a portion of pepper powder and store. One to two grams of this powder in sufficient honey to be used.

Psoriasis

A hand of neem leaves, and one tablespoon of Turmeric powder boiled in one to two liters of water cooled and filtered can add to a bucket of water in your bath, with this water and also consume 30 milliliters of the same mixture everyday control and ¨ Use dustbins-keep the surroundings clean. relieves the Psoriasis.

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*Data Source: Saptagiri Magazine

In India during festivities, marriages, important days, occasions and on all auspicious days tying mango leaves on the door, decorating the Pandals is a tradition followed and practised. The truth behind tying these mango leaves on these occasions is to avoid spreading diseases by microorganisms thus avoiding contagions and infectious diseases.

Amraphala, chootha, Pikavalabha, Rasala are the different names in Sanskrit for Mango, which belongs to Anacardiaceae plant family. The scientific name is Mangifera Indica. Bhubaneswar in Odisha called ‘Ekamra Kshetra’, here Lord Shiva in the form of Linga came out from the roots of the mango tree.

Ekambareswara Swami temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu

has a Mango tree of 3,500 years old. The four branches of this tree are referred as four Vedas.
Each branch of this tree gives fruits of different tastes.
The priest of this temple indemnifies that eating fruits of this tree will be blessed with children for the childless.
The mango fruit is full of minerals and nutrients.
The leaves, bark, flowers and tender mango are used in preparing different kinds of medicines used by us so it is called as king of fruits.
The studies in the laboratories reveal the mango leaves contains Gallic an Anic acid.
The raw mango has more starch and carbohydrates, by the time it ripes gets converted into sugars (fructose). Similarly, the vitamin C in raw mango is more.

The raw mangoes taste sour because of ocolic, citric, malic and succinct acids presence. The fruit bears much amount of sugars along with Malice and Tartaric acids in sufficient qualities.

Immediately, after eating raw mango or mango fruit one should not drink water. After eating this fruit taking one or two teaspoons of ginger juice or half a cup of milk or chewing little Cumin seeds avoid stomach irritation, indigestion and diarrhoea.

PRELIMINARY STAGES OF DIABETES

Taking 15 ml three times a day of tender mango leaf juice gives good relief from the preliminary stage of diabetes or half a teaspoon of powder of tender mango leaves dried in shade with 50 ml water consumed two times a day also gives benefit.

Insect Bites

The sap from the bark when cut, Leaf or mangoes applied on the place of a bite by any Insect will relieve from the pain, irritation etc., Dried and stored sap oozing can be used by mixing in water, made as a paste and apply on eczema, scratching and skin related diseases etc. This paste can also be used as a remedy for a cracked foot.

Asthma, Cough

The powder of dried mango seed without the outer coat, half a teaspoon with an equal amount of honey taken two times a day is a good remedy. Regular use of smaller, required quantities depending on the age group of children will set right the sagging of the anus.

Also, 4 to 5 grams of this powder mixed with an equal amount of jaggery powder is a good remedy for deworming in children.

Diarrhea with Blood

Consuming half a teaspoon full of powder of dried Mango seed without an outer coat in 100 ml buttermilk in the morning and evening relieves diarrhoea with blood. This relives not only diarrhoea with blood but also relieves stomach pain, irritation in the stomach, mouth, gums, lungs, blood from anus and piles.

Dandruff

Apply the paste of the powder of dried Mango seed without an outer coat in sufficient water to the scalp for two hours, thrice a week relieves the suffering from dandruff.

Hair Related Problems

Take Gingly Oil in an Iron bowel, add powder of dried Mango seed without outer coat half the quantity of Gingly oil, to this add Karakai, Tanikaya, Amla powders (available in Ayurvedic Medicine Shops) half the quantity of powder of dried Mango seed without outer coat (called as Triphala Churna) mixing the same in morning and evening, keep for one week, the filtered extract can be used for Hair related problems like hair falling, gray hair etc., in addition, hair becomes soft and shining.

Burns

The ashes of the burnt Mango tree wood added in sufficient coconut oil can be applied on burns, which gives good relief.

Excess Urination

The powder of dried tender mangos with twice the powder of sugar, half a teaspoon consumed with 50 ml water will relieve excess urination.

Category: Ayurveda

Turmeric – Holy and Healthy