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GRAINS
GRAM
Properties
Gram is cool, harsh light, bitter, causes the formation of wind in the body and constipation.It is beneficial in blood impurities due to excessive bile. It also eliminates excessive phlegm and is beneficial in fever. Baked gram is hot relishing, helps in the formation of semen and increases the radiance of the body. Green gram is tender relishing, cool, bitter, causes the formation of the wind and constipation. The leaf of the gram is sour, bitter and it contracts the intestines and cures the swelling of the gums.
Uses
- Vegetables prepared from grams, cure fever due to excessive bile in the body.
- Soak a fistful of grams in vinegar in the night, eat these grams in the morning on empty stomach, the worms will be eliminated
- Gram flour mixed with honey and two grams of clove ashes give relief in the most severe stage of cholera.
- Sniffing baked grams, which are still hot, cures coryza.
- Mixing some water and ghee in gram flour and applying this paste on the body improves the complexion
- The Skin of the face becomes soft and radiant if paste made of gram flour mixed with some water is applied on it.
Green gram
Properties
Green gram is dry, light, a retainer of stool, cool, sweet, causes the formation of wind in little quantity, good for the eyes and cures fever. According to "charak" and "sushrut", green gram are relatively more beneficial than the kidney beans. But practically both the types of beans are considered to be of same importance.
Uses
- Green gram is very varied in vegetables, sweet, lentils and an important diet.
- Very nourishing and delicious dishes are prepared from the flour of grinded green grams. It is more qualitative than the dishes made from the flour of gram pulses.
- The water in which green gram are cooked are considered to have more nutritive value than the green grams itself. Although green gram causes the formation of some wind in the body but the water in which green grams are cooked do not cause the formation of wind. This water can be compared with thee nutritive value of the milk. Therefore it can be given to the patient suffering from fever due to excessive three humors, and where milk can not be given. It is prescribed by doctors as an easily digestible diet after the fever has subsided.
- Rice and green gram when cooked together after mixing, is a very excellent diet for a sick person.
- Vegetables are prepared by soaking green gram in water.
- "Laddus" made from the flour of green gram are very nutrious. It is used mostly during the winter season.
- A semi liquid fluid made from baked green grams and then mixed parched rice, honey and sugar in it, has a curative effect in many diseases like inflammation, fever and diarrhea. It also checks vomit.
Sweet potato
Properties
Sweet potato is heavy, cool, strength giving and causes partial constipation.
Uses
- Sweet potato is used after boiling it, by people observing fasts.
- It is used mostly by people who do mexial jobs. Since it is heavy, it is hard to digest.
- If its vegetable is prepared mixed with brinjals, its properties of causing wind and its heaviness decreases a lot.
- Sweet potato boiled in milk is very tasty and full of nourishment.
- Flour made from dried sweet potatoes is used by people observing fasts and when the flour of grains is prohibited.
- Sweet potato is very beneficial in many ways because it gives starch, alcohol which is used in industries, pactene, carotene etc.
- Sweet potato is very beneficial in many ways because it gives starch, alcohol which is used in industries, pactene, carotene etc.
- It is very good for the four footed animals because it gives complete nourishment to them.
Note
It is harmful for pregnant woman, or a person suffering from plethora or tuberculosis. It also causes the formation of excessive bile.
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