No Garlic and Onion Diet! Does Ayurveda Really Suggest This?

The usage of onion and garlic in Indian kitchens is indispensable. Both onion and garlic add flavours and offer several health benefits. Yet, according to Ayurveda you should not consume excessive amounts of onion and/or garlic.

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Ayurveda defines nutritional properties of food based on their six types of tastes. These include astringent, bitter, pungent, salty, sour, and sweet. Also, the qualities namely sattva, rajas and tamas have to be taken into consideration. Although onion and garlic are considered as excellent foods, they are not favoured by Ayurveda.

Role of Garlic and Onion in Ayurveda

Ayurveda has nothing against you eating onion and garlic. As a matter of fact, garlic is known to be an important medicine in Ayurveda. However, onion is known to be tamasic causing people to become irritable. Meanwhile, garlic is known to be rajasic causing disturbed sleep and drained energy. Hence, both these ingredients produce excessive body heat. Even though your body requires some amount of heat, excessive body heat leads to several health problems.

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Confusion between Ayurveda and spirituality

In Ayurveda, you can eat onion and garlic but, your intake should be in measured moderate quantities. The principles of Ayurveda are often confused with practise of yoga and spirituality. These practises recommend people to abstain from onions and garlic because both distract individual’s concentration. 

Health benefits of Onion and Garlic

Garlic has been used to prevent infections due to its anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal properties; it also reduces chances of cancer. Onions, on the other hand, reduces inflammation, removes toxins, reduces cough and regulates digestion.

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Conclusion

Hence, venture and add both onion and garlic to your foods you eat in daily diet. Only remember that consuming any food item in excess quantities is bad for your health. Always, limit to your intake to moderate amounts.

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Put Garlic under your pillow! Miraculous benefits of keeping Garlic under pillow!

Garlic, most of us avoid garlic in our meals, for it gives us bad breath. But did you know that garlic is one of the most important foods on our planet? Apart from increasing taste of other dishes, it has many medicinal and nutritional values which we often overlook. Just like any other vegetable, it is best consumed raw because it retains more of its nutritional values. And for all the obvious reasons, it should be consumed daily.

As we just discussed, garlic is used to treat quite many medical conditions too such as -to prevent or to treat baldness (now that’s really useful for many men), liver diseases, it also helps in relieving the symptoms from a cold or flu and increase immunity to the same.

Put Garlic under Your Pillow

Apart from the treatment of problems mentioned above garlic helps in purifying the blood and cleansing the arteries. And it has proven to be helpful for people with respiratory problems and the list goes on and on. Now that makes garlic a very useful thing to have in our plate. Doesn’t it??

It is a widely known and accepted fact that keeping garlic under our pillow proves good for our health. Why is it so, we will soon find out. Some people have a habit of keeping it in their pockets of their clothes and some even use it on their pans and cooking vessels both before and during cooking various dishes.

Why put garlic under your pillow?

It is believed that keeping garlic under our pillow would eliminate or avoid any negative energy around us and stop us from being around the same. Also it is considered a good omen and brings us good luck. If you hesitate, you should try it as well. Take a garlic clove; put it under your pillow. You will sleep better and the negative energy that has been circling around you will be gone. This is about the beliefs. The scientific aspect of doing this is that garlic helps reduce stress and prevent flu when inhaled. Now the maximum time one can do this continuously is while he is sleeping. So this is the second and scientific reason behind why it is done. After all who doesn’t want a carefree and relaxed sleep!!

Did you know?

Did you know that garlic was used by Egyptian labours while they were giving their best building the pyramids? Yes they did, and they did so because of its medicinal and antibiotic properties which would help then to keep up with all the bruises and injuries they would get while working. There is a powerful compound in garlic called Allicin which imparts garlic its smell and other medicinal properties.

Magic of Allicin

Allicin works in a very interesting way, so to let it work to its max potential you just have to crush it and let it breathe, mind you if it is cooked this compound will vanish. That’s predominantly the main reason it should be eaten raw.

To have it you have to crush it nicely and leave it to breathe for around 15 minutes. This is the time when the power of Allicin spreads and its potency increases after which you are free to have it. Just for the information; that most of the people don’t like the odour, so to disguise it you can add some lettuce and vegetables along with little bit of olive oil and parsley. And Tada..!! The odour has reduced now without compromising the nutritional value garlic.

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Garlic Milk: Health Bomb that Cures 15 Diseases. Health Benefits of Garlic milk

It might seem like a weird combination, but garlic milk becoming quite popular health tonic, well-known for its numerous health benefits. For over 100 years, garlic has been used as a healing agent for various diseases such as asthma, common cold, high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s disease, high cholesterol, dementia, impotency, arthritis, jaundice and so on. Garlic contains powerful anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and antiviral properties. It promotes healing and protects us from various infections.

Nutrition facts of garlic

Garlic contains iron, vitamin A, C, D, B6 and B12, calcium, fiber, manganese, selenium, copper and potassium.  It has zero cholesterol. On the other hand, milk is a loaded with calcium, vitamin A, C, D, and B12, potassium, magnesium and iron. Regular consumption of milk helps maintain normal blood pressure, build strong bones, improves eyesight, repairs muscle tissues, gives energy, enhances the production of red blood cell and boosts immune system.

Garlic Milk recipe

Garlic-milk is a homemade medicinal tonic with various health benefits.  Here is a simple recipe of garlic milk.

Ingredients

1 cup fresh milk

2-3 garlic cloves

Turmeric powder - quarter tsp

A pinch of black pepper

1 tbsp Organic honey

How to prepare?

1.  Crush the garlic cloves to make paste like form using the sides of the knife. Do not chop, grind it.

2.  Add crushed garlic to milk and boil it on high heat. Add turmeric powder and pinch of black pepper and let this mixture boil until garlic becomes soft. Occasional stirring is required.

3.  After boiling, allow the mixture until lukewarm.  Add 1 tbsp honey to improve the taste and drink.  Don’t throw the crushed garlic paste and black pepper powder, eat them too.

Garlic-milk is used to treat a many health problems. Consume garlic milk to treat the following health issues:

1. Cold and flu

Garlic-milk boosts our immune system and prevents various infections. Drink garlic milk once or twice a day until you find relief from cold or flu. You can also consume this tonic as a preventive measure from bacterial and viral infections.

2. Cough

Combination of Garlic with turmeric and milk is a great home remedy for persistent cough. The anti-bacterial properties of garlic cures cough. 

3. Acne

The strong anti-bacterial, anti-viral and antifungal properties of garlic milk helps soothe inflamed skin. This tonic dries out pimples and prevents further breakouts. Drink garlic milk regularly to minimize acne burst out and promote faster healing of acne, pimples.

4. Lowers cholesterol

Drink lukewarm garlic milk daily for over a week to reduce the ‘bad’ cholesterol (LDL) and at the same time it increases the good cholesterol (HDL) in the body.

5. Improves digestion, Kills worms   

Drink garlic milk to reduce minor digestive discomforts and stomach pain. Garlic milk helps to stimulate appetite. It stimulates the secretion of digestive juices, thus aids in digestion, whereas milk kills harmful microbes in the intestines. Garlic milk has a soothing effect on the stomach and the intestine and also prevents inflammation.  It removes harmful microbes which grow in the intestine. Garlic milk also stimulates production of good bacteria in the stomach. 

Garlic-milk can kill most kind of parasitic worms. Drink this combination before breakfast in the morning to eliminate intestinal worms.

6. Infertility

Garlic milk is a magnificent home remedy for infertility in both women and men. It improves blood circulation to those significant organs of our body, especially to the reproductive organs.  Drink garlic milk once or twice a day to combat infertility in few weeks.

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5 Fast ways To Easily Peel Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds

Peeling garlic is perhaps the most hated thing for a. Your fingers absorb the garlic odor for hours and if the garlic cloves are small in size it is even harder to peel them. But garlic is also a cooking necessity, delicious and healthy.

Here we are sharing two easy kitchen hacks that can peel garlic in seconds.

1. Microwave It

Yes, microwave head of garlic for 15-20 seconds, take out and peel the garlic with hands – you will notice the garlic cloves slips right out of the casings very easily.

2. Smash It and Shake It

This tip has been well-known in hotels, restaurant kitchens for years because it is the quickest and easiest way to peel an entire head of garlic. You just need two hard metal bowls or jar and a dry head of garlic.

Remember: this trick will not work fine with fresh garlic.

Watch this video for all the 5 tricks to peel the garlic in seconds. 

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