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7 impressive benifits of Jowar(sorghum)

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              Jowar-The daily eat Our ancestors were used to jowar roti or bhakri regularly. Today some villagers eat jowar roti. Today we all know about jowar but we don't prefer to eat. We eat wheat roti instead of jowar bhakri. We don't prefer jowar bhakri because it requires a lot of energy to make and eat roti( to chew). Jowar is full of Antioxidant , fiber and nutrients . It is  a gluten free energy boosting cereal. It is a well known millet used in obesity, diabetes etc. It has rich medicinal values due to its antioxidant phytochemicals. It is rich in dietary fiber which contributes for better digestive and cardiovascular health.            Click here to explore more about Antioxidant and free radicals It is also called as Jwari in Marathi, Cholam in Tamil, Jolal in Kannada and Jonnalu in Telugu. It is is the fifth-most important cereal crop after rice, wheat, maize, and barley grown in the world. it is an important crop worldwide, used for food (as grain

DRUMSTICK (shevaga) - Health benefits, application, chemical constituents, side effects and many more

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                        DRUMSTICK (shevaga/moringa) Drumstick( long stick like pod) which is used in many indian kitchen to create many dishes(soups, pickles, Sambhar, etc). It is the type of pod and it's large production is in india. young seed pods and leaves used as vegetables and for traditional herbal medicine. Drumstick tree  is a fast-growing , deciduous tree that can reach a height of 10–12 m (32–40 ft) . It's branches are very fragile(easily broken). Almost all parts of tree is edible (flower, root, leaves, pods, steam bark, root bark, oil, steam, etc). This ‘Miracle tree’ is very impressive and amazing plant due to its tested, trusted and high potential benefits from nutritional and medicinal point of view . The plant was introduced to Africa from India at the turn of the twentieth century where it was to be used as a health supplement Drumstick have many names in many different languages such as shevaga in Marathi, shajan in Hindi, murungai in Tamil, muringn

Kavath(wood apple) - Ayurvedic remedies, health benefits, application, chemical constituents, side effects and many more

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                   Kavath(wood apple) Kavath which is known as wood apple in English. It is also called as kapittha in sanskrit . It have a very hard skin which can be difficult to crack open, it appears greenish-brown in colour from outside and contains sticky brown, juicy pulp inside with  small white seeds. Kavath tree has very large canopy and it produces large amout fruits in season of summer (December-april). Wood apples are native to India, parts of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, andaman islands and Pakistan. According to Hindu religion this fruit is offered to the god Ganesha. It is very delicious fruit with combination of different tastes  such as sweet, sour, bitter and in some amount fermented. Somehow it resembles to tamarind due to its sour-sweet taste. It's plup texture is not so good but it's taste is delicious with combination of tastes.  it shows immune boosting, antiinflammatory, antibiotic, Antioxidant(reduces the free radical damage), Muscle relaxant proper