Hypo-function of liver,Indigestion: Allow the seeds to sprout and eat
with breakfast.
Dysentry: Soak 2 tsp methi seeds in coconut water or in buttermilk for a
few hours.Strain and drink.
Pain during urination,Stomachache: Mix 1/4 tsp powdered seeds in
buttermilk and drink.
Fever,Body odour and Mouth odour: Tea made by boiling 1 tsp methi
seeds,to be taken twice or thrice a day.
Baldness,Falling hair: Grind methi seeds in water and apply on the
head.Allow to soak for at least 40 minutes before washing.Repeat every
morning for a month.
Boils,Ulcers and Sores: Grind seeds into a paste and apply on the
affected parts.- Garlic ~ Lahsun
It is not by opportunity that garlic is indigenous to central Asia, the area where
people live the longest, and the occurrence of cancer is the lowest known. The
ancient Egyptians included garlic in the diet of the slaves who built the pyramids.
History attributes many properties to garlic, and most of them are proven by
scientific means. Conceivably garlic is the vegetal medicine with the most
scientifically established properties.
The complete plant, but especially the bulb contains alliin a (a sulphured
glycoside), and enzyme (alliinase), vitamins A, B1, B2, C, and niacin (a vitamin of
the B group). Alliin does not smell, but by the action of alliinase, which releases
and acts when garlic is crushed, it is altered first into alliicine, and then into diallyl
disulphide (the genine of the glycoside), which are the most important active
principles which give garlic its typical smell.
Alliin and diallyl dysulphur are highly unstable substances, which melt quite
easily into liquids and gases. When transported by the blood, they infuse all
tissues and organs of the body. Thus they act on the whole body, though more
powerfully on the organs through which they are eliminated: Bronchi and lungs,
kidneys, and skin.
In high doses, garlic produces a decrease in blood pressure, both highest and
lowest. It has vasodilating effects, and is recommend for people suffering from