Improve Your Health With Apple, Guava and Mango

By Rajeev Sharma

Nature has provided mankind with a gamut of fruits, vegetables, dairy products and other sources to maintain a healthy lifestyle. These natural sources of food are rich in vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and other essential nutrients. Moreover, they have numerous unexplored healing powers. Through this series, we have made a sincere attempt to unfold the various benefits of these foods. You will find a cure for every big or small disease in this invaluable series, and will discover what treasure nature holds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond Books
• Release date: Dec 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9788128834363

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MANGO (AAM)

Mango’s taste is sweet and a little sour, and very nourishing too. Mango’s name ‘Amriphala’ in ancient treatises bespeaks of its great nutritive value. Its quality varies with growth. Raw mango is sour and astringent and produces wind and bile in the body. The peeled raw mangoes cut in pieces are dried in sun to produce Amchoor. Amchoor is sour and astringent in taste and is carminative, antiphlegmatic and checks wind problems. Ripe mango is an extremely tasty and nutritive fruit. A normal-sized mango is more nourishing for the human body than butter or almonds. It strengthens and invigorates all the nerves, tissues, muscles in the brain, heart and other parts of the body. It is anti-bilious, anti-phlegmatic and anti-acidic. It is carminative and can be easily digested. It is also known to be an effective general tonic and blood-purifier. It cleans the body of the filth within and is an ideal antidote for all toxic effects inside the body.

‘Desi’ mango is very good for health. It is better to suck the mango than to slice it into pieces and eat. Mango and milk make an ideal combination as milk provides protein, which is not there in mango. Not only does it keep the body in good shape, but also provides sufficient resistance to fight any germs and afflictions.

Mango is not only liked and relished as raw fruit but is also used to make many tasty, delicious preparations like salads, chutney, murabba, pickles, aamras, halva, burfi, kulfi, aam papad, shreekhanda, etc. Every part of the mango tree - root, stem, bark, the blossom, fruits - have some medicinal properties. Besides, mango is used for many other purposes:

Mango leaves are tied and decorated as ‘Vandanvar’ on all religious and auspicious occasions.

Mango twig is kept in utensil filled with water on auspicious ceremonies.

Mango’s wood is considered very sacred for sacrifices.

Blossoms of Mango (Manjari) are offered to gods.

Mango’s wood is used for making doors, stools and other furniture.

Dried leaves of mango are used as fuel.

Manure prepared with the help of rotten mango leaves is used in fields.

Overeating mangoes

If you overeat mangoes, consider the following options:

Have a few Jamuns over it.

Take cumin seeds water over it.

Have South powder with water over it.

Have ground roasted cumin seeds with rock salt over it.

Note

Mango should not be eaten empty stomach.

Too much consumption of mangoes leads to indigestion, constipation, gaseous troubles, blood impurities and eye-troubles.

Water should never be taken after eating mangoes.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

General tonic

Having mango pulp mixed in milk or drinking milk after eating mango provides energy, strength and vigour to the body.

Having mango juice regularly in the evening eliminates physical weakness and improves nervous system.

Having mango or mango ‘murabba’ after meals helps in gaining weight and acts as a general tonic.

Mental weakness

Having a cup of mango juice with 1 cup of milk, I tsp. ginger juice, and sugar daily eliminates mental weakness and strengthens the heart.

Hair problems

Massaging the hair with mango oil (by cooking kernel of a mango stone in boiling mustard oil. Cool it, strain and store) one or two hours before washing the hair stops untimely greying of hair.

Headache

Applying the ground kernel of mango and a small ‘harar’ in milk (preferably of a goat) on the forehead provides immediate relief.

Anaemia

Having mango and milk regularly eliminates anaemia.

Indigestion and stomach problems

Suck mango followed by milk regularly to eliminate constipation and indigestion.

Have 70 grams of mango juice and 2 grams of ground ‘sonth’ in the morning to improve appetite and cure indigestion.

Licking ground powder of mango kernel with honey in the same proportion provides instant relief to acidity.

Chewing a few pieces or sucking the juice of raw mango eliminates indigestion that occurs by eating fish.

Loss of appetite

Having the juice of desi mango with little rock salt and sugar candy twice a day helps in restoring lost appetite.

Having mango ‘murabba’ after meals is also very useful.

Diarrhoea

Having ½ cup sweet mango juice with 25 grams curd and I tsp. ginger juice 2 or 3 times a day controls loose motions.

Taking decoction of the bark of mango (boil 20 grams powder of mango bark in 1 litre water till 250 grams is left) with 1 gram ‘kaala namak’ twice or thrice a day is also useful.

Taking 10 to 15 grams ground powder of mango stone 2 or 3 times a day cures loose motions.

Applying the paste of mango stone on the navel is also helpful.

Dysentery