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Healthy Food Recipes - Herbal Kashayam / Ayurvedic Drink For Cold & Cough!
Posted on: 28/Jan/2015 5:03:04 PM
Ingredients
- Dry Ginger (Sukku) – small size
- Black Pepper – 1 spoon
- Dhaniya (Malli seeds) – 1 spoon
- Omam (Ajwain seeds) – 1 spoon
- Cumin seeds – 1 spoon
- Clove – 2 nos
- Turmeric Powder – ¼ spoon
- Thulasi leaves – a few
- Betel leaves – 3 nos
- Palm Sugar (Panakarkandu) – 2 spoon
- Water – 200 ml
Method of Preparation:
- As, dry ginger is very hard in nature, thrash it to powder and add it on top of the 200 ml of water.
- Add black pepper (full pepper, as it is) to it.
- The add cumin seeds, Omam, Dhaniya, clove and turmeric powder one by one in water.
- Thoroughly wash the betel and Thulasi leaves and chop it into small size and keep it ready.
- Once they reach a rolling boil, add the betel and Thulasi leaves into it.
- Allow it to boil until the water quantity reduces to half of the initial quantity.
- Then switch off the flame and separate the filtrate using the fine cotton cloth.
- Then to the filtrate either add jaggery or palm sugar into it before consuming the Kashayam.
Alternative Procedure:
- Dry fry each item (black pepper, cumin seeds, Dhaniya, Omam, Clove) in a pan till it turns brown and grind it together to a coarse powder and store it in the fridge.
- Boil 2 cups of water. Once it starts rolling boil, add 2 spoons of this prepared powder.
- Once its quantity reduces to half, switch off the flame. Without filtering it add either jaggery or honey or palm sugar and consume it.
Note:
- Irrespective of the age, starting from babies to adults can consume this Kashayam so as to get relieve from cold and cough.
- You can give 10 ml of this Kashayam from 1 year old baby and the quantity varies depends on the age.
- Galloping this Kashayam daily in two servings for about 3 to 5 days, you can get better relief from cold and cough.
- In addition, the constituents incorporated in this Kashayam can aid in clearing our digestion troubles.
- Besides, this Kashayam also cures body pain and fever.
- In case, you are not able to get Thulasi, you can add other ingredients to prepare this Kashayam.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
