Saturday, January 21, 2006

Grandmomma's recipes for health

The Saligao parish bulletin of January 2006 has an article with the above title. It includes recipes based on mustard (rai) for rheumatism, arthritis, joint pain, fatigue, and to relieve congestion.

Also ginger (for common cold, to prevent heart problems, for blood pressure, prevent cold and flu, and gas problems and indigestion), curry leaf (diabetes, overweight, cholesterol, insect bite, etc), coriander (indigestion, nausea, dysentery, jaundice, high blood pressure, pimples, dry skin, etc), pepper (indigestion, chronic malaria), cardamom (urine retention, sore throat, cough, difficulty in breathing, worms, etc), fenugreek (herbal shampoo, swelling, cholesterol, cracks in the heel, etc), onion (fever, influenza, cold, sore throat, cough, goitre, headache, migraine, insect bite), clove (sore throat, vomitting, muscular cramps, toothache). Interesting!