Benefits of Ginger ( Adrak )

                                                                Its mineral and vitamin contents are calcium, phosphorous, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and vitamin C.

Benefits:- 

1. Coughs and cold:- Extracted juice of ginger with honey is taken three or four times a day in case of coughs. In case of colds, take ginger cut into small pieces in a boiled cup of water. After straining, it should be taken hot with half a teaspoon of sugar.

2. Respiratory disorders:- A teaspoon of fresh ginger juice mixed with a cup of fenugreek decoction and honey to taste, makes an excellent diaphoretic mixture to proliferate sweating and reduces fever in influenza. It acts as an expectorant in bronchitis, asthma, whooping cough and tuberculosis of the lungs.

3. Digestive disorders:- Chewing a piece of fresh ginger regularly after meals prevents dyspepsia, flatulence, colic vomiting, spasms and other painful affections of the stomach and the bowels, not accompanied by fever. This protective action is due to the excessive secretion of saliva, diastase enzyme and volatile oil.

Benefits of Garlic ( Lahsoon )

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Botanical name:- Allium Sativum
Indian name:- Lahsoon
                                                              Garlic has been highly valued for centuries all over the world for its health building qualities. Its mineral and vitamin contents are calcium, phosphorous, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and vitamin C. It also contains traces of iodine, sulphur and chlorine.
                                                             The bulbs yields an essential oil containing allyl propyl disulphide, diallyl disulphide and two other sulphur compounds. They also contain antiseptic and hypotensive or causing low blood pressure principles - allicin, allisatin I allisatin II.

Benefits:- 

1. Tuberculosis:- A decoction of garlic boiled in milk is a wonderful drug for tuberculosis. One gram of garlic, 250 ml of milk and a litre of water are boiled together till it reduces to one fourth of the decoction.It should be taken thrice a day.