SWEETS
Sugar
Properties
Sugar is sweet, develops semen, beneficial for the eyes, nourishing and gives strength.
It eliminates excessive humors of wind and bile in the body and checks vomit.
White sugar :
It is sweet relishing, cool and it develops semen. It is beneficial in blood impurities, excessive bile, excessive wind, fever, inflammation and vomit.
Uses
- When sugar is chewed, its properties and effects become hot but its effect becomes cold when dissolved in water. Drinking a glass of water in which sugar is dissolved, satisfies thirst.
- Drinking hot milk in which some sugar and the same quantity of ghee has been mixed, cures strangury. Drinking a glass of "lassi" mixed with some sugar is also beneficial in the same disease.
- Drinking water mixed with sugar, checks the loose motions due to intaking of purgative medicines.
- The smoke caused by burning the mixture of sugar and jaggery, drives away insects and mosquitoes.
- Sugar is used in diabetic patient to neutralize the over doze of insulin, because it circulates instantly throughout the body. It is also beneficial to person who is observing fast by providing instant energy.
Note :
Excessive use of sugar is harmful. It causes many complications in the body like acidity, inflammation, swelling, diabetes and rheumatism etc.
Sugarcane
Properties
Sugarcane is nourishing, strength giving and it satisfies thirst. It is beneficial in diseases like plethora, tiredness, strangury, and weakness.
Uses
- Fresh juice of sugarcane mixed with some salt and lemon juice during summer season is very refreshing, nourishing and energizing.
- A person whose semen has been polluted and impurified by excessive wind and bile in the body, sugar cane juice is very beneficial to them. Sugar cane juice is also beneficial in painful discharge of urine. It is also beneficial for throat.
- Drinking sugar cane juice also checks hiccups and it is beneficial in plethora.
- Keep sugarcane sticks on the terrace in the night. Extract the juice in the morning and give it to the patient suffering from jaundice. It will be cured in four to five days.
- Sugar cane juice, mixed in it some lemon juice, cures strangury.
- Drinking sugarcane juice with a pinch of salt and few drops of lemon juice during summer season, cures the uneasiness caused by heat.
Note :
Sugar cane is harmful to person suffering from diabetes, fever, cold, dyspepsia, skin diseases and worms in the stomach. It is also not good for small children.
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