Spices useful for stomach and intestines

Spices useful for stomach
and intestines

It is a wrong concept that spices are harmful to
the stomach. Many spices do not allow gas
formation in stomach and intestines. They are
useful in constipation and hemorrhoids.

Carom seed, black pepper, ginger,
fenugreek, cumin, clove, cardamom
and asafetida are all very useful for
the body. Proper utilization of spices
makes liver strong, which continue
to work with full efficiency. Spices
also help in gastric troubles.
Turmeric helps in curing
constipation and piles. Daily
at night, take one spoon full of
turmeric powder with milk to keep
all these diseases at bay.
Celery seed are used for stomach,
acidity, and burning sensation
after meals, pain in intestines,
constipation and other diseases.
The seeds and leaves of celery
are beneficial in cough, asthma,
vomiting, kidney problem, urine
problem, joint pain and menses
problem. Celery seeds are also used
as tonic. Powder and decoction
of celery are utilized often and
is beneficial to clean and wash
stomach.
Celery seed 10 grams, black salt 3
grams, asafetida 2 milligram when
crushed finely and mixed to form
powder and when taken with 4
milli gram hot water gives relief in
stomach pain and ignites hunger.
After delivery, jiggery and celery
when mixed and taken twice,
morning and evening it gives relief
in waist pain. It purifies uterus and
generates hunger and the body turns
stronger.
Asafetida
In Indigestion, stomach ache,
acidity, intestine pain and bitter
belching use of asafetida is very
useful. For heart ailment, cough,
asthma, gout, insects in intestines,
and irregularity in menstrual
problem asafetida gives excellent
results. A little asafetida, taken with
curd cures dysentery. Asafetida,
when mixed in hot water and placed
around bellybutton and if a little
amount of asafetida is roasted and
taken with honey, the problem of
belching is solved.
Take roasted asafetida one gram
mixed with 15 grams of dry or fresh
leaves of margosa, 15 grams roasted
cumin and 1 gram each camphor
and water when crushed and mixed
to form small balls. Take 3-4 balls at
night before sleeping. It would give
relief in all stomach ailments and
piles. Take ginger, black pepper,
rock salt, white cumin, black cumin
and celery seed in equal quantity
and then add asafetida power to it.
Mix them well and take the powder
twice a day, after mixing it with half
spoon ghee before taking meals.
It would give total benefit of the
meal. This powder is also known as
Hingwashtak powder.
Black pepper
Fine black pepper when mixed with
one forth proportion of butter milk
and taken, it helps in cleaning thestomach as insects are washed away,
alive or dead. Black pepper has the
treatment of cough due to cold and
sputum, asthma and chest pain. It
washes away entire cough deposited
in lungs. Mix black pepper with honey
and it would treat cough deposition.
Cough, asthma, chest pain all are
treated with the help of black pepper.
For gastric troubles take 2 grams of
black pepper and later take warm
water, mixed with lemon juice and
continue the process for 10-12 days. It
would give relief.
Also memory enhances when black
pepper is taken with 30 grams of butter
and sugar. It removes the weakness of
the brain. In many other diseases mix
black pepper, rock salt, cumin, ginger
and take with honey twice or thrice a
day.
Cinnamon
Take cinnamon and cardamom, half
gram each, mix with half gram of
ginger powder, when taken before
meals, it treats constipation and the
patient feels hungry. Due to problem
in bile, vomiting could take place and
to get relief take cinnamon powder
with honey three-four times a day. It
would give relief.

Two grams of cinnamon, when
mixed with 2 grams of water, it
gives relief in diarrhea.
Ginger
Mix juice of one KG ginger with
similar quantity of water and 100
grams of sugar and boil on light fire.
When the mixture gets concentrated,
mix cardamom, ficus religiosa,
black pepper and cloves each 5
grams. Keep it in glass utensil. It is
a better treatment for digestion and
10 grams of it helps in fast digestion
besides giving benefit in cough
and breathing problem. Pickle of
ginger also helps indigestion. Mix
5 grams juice of pomegranate with
another 5 grams of ginger and when
taken twice a day in morning and
evening, it treats bile problem. For
indigestion, take 10 grams of ginger
juice and mix with 10 grams of
lemon juice and dissolve it with rock
salt. Mix five grams of ginger juice,
with rock salt and powder of black
pepper, which is helpful in vomiting
problem. The juice of ginger, when
taken with water, it helps in ascites
problem. When ginger juice is
mixed with candy, it is very useful
for health.