Tag: Vegetables

Brussels sprouts pack in the fiber, which prevents constipation, feeds beneficial bacteria in the gut, and manages blood sugar levels. The vitamin C in Brussels sprouts boost immune function, keep skin healthy, and fight iron-deficiency anemia by improving iron absorption. Vitamin K in them keeps bones strong while their omega-3 fatty acid content prevents cognitive decline.

Garlic can potentially lower cholesterol, with some studies recording a 12% dip in total cholesterol while others peg this at 4–6%. However, the effect seems to be short-lived and not firmly established. Incorporate garlic into your meals as part of a holistic diet along with other antioxidants.

Celery is a nutritious vegetable with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. It protects against stomach ulcers, eases fever, and helps manage blood sugar, cholesterol, and high blood pressure. It can soothe an upset stomach, improve sexual health in men, ease arthritis, boost memory and mood, and even protect against Parkinson’s disease.

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Carrots contain beta-carotene that our body uses to make vitamin A, which keeps our vision healthy, fights cancer-causing free radicals, improves cognitive function, and strengthens our teeth and bones. It can boost our immunity and skin health too.

Thanks to their high water content, cooling effect, and abundant antioxidants, cucumbers are an ideal home remedy for treating a number of eye problems. Use cool cucumber slices or juice to treat puffiness and dark circles. If you want to get rid of under-eye bags and inflammation, try cucumber paste. You can also eliminate wrinkles and cellulite around your eyes with cucumber juice or extracts.

These home remedies can help you get thicker, healthier hair. They include eggs, fenugreek, coconut oil, avocado, and olive oil. These ingredients contain protein which can strengthen the hair as well as fats which can moisturize the strands. Keeping the scalp moisturized keeps it healthy and able to promote more growth. This reduces breakage as well. It also helps to eat protein-rich foods like eggs, tofu, lentils, and lean meats.

Adding these superfoods to your diet will ensure that your gut is healthy. Some such beneficial foods are bone broth, probiotics like yogurt and kefir, garlic, fatty fish and stock, coconut oil, green leafy vegetables, ginger, and wheatgrass. Such foods treat digestive issues, soothe the gut, and have an antimicrobial effect on the pathogenic bacteria that invade the gut system.

Staph infections are caused by the Staphylococcus bacteria and are conventionally treated with antibiotics. Home remedies include a manuka honey dressing, crushed tea tree leaves, lime juice, garlic juice, and tulsi leaf juice. You can also apply a goldenseal root powder poultice, diluted eucalyptus essential oil, or a poultice of the bark and leaves of witch hazel to the infection. A warm compress can help drain and heal boils.

Thyroid dysfunction is gaining in numbers as the next big epidemic. It can be managed to an extent through food. Brazil nuts contain selenium which is needed to convert T3 into usable T4 from the thyroid. The benefits of cruciferous vegetables outweigh the harm they cause. Seaweed and dairy are excellent sources of iodine needed to produce thyroxine. Maca root is can help regulate hormone function very effectively.

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Boils form as a result of bacterial infections of a hair follicle or sebaceous gland. Heat application with Epsom salts is a good way to increase blood flow to the boil and get rid of it. Herbal remedies like turmeric and neem paste also work in helping boils resolve. Crushed garlic application is also an effective remedy. Many have found drinking tea with black seed oil to be useful in getting rid of boils too.

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Your heart literally beats every day of your life, making it literally the hardest organ in the body. The intake of junk food, oily snacks, pastries, bread, foods laden with sugar, and salt can cause artery clogging in your heart. Adding nuts like walnuts and seeds like flaxseed, olive and flaxseed oil, avocados, fatty fish, foods rich in folic acid like cereals and lentils, asparagus and broccoli, dark green vegetables like the spinach, whole grains, and onion & garlic are excellent food sources for keeping your arteries clean naturally. Apple cider vinegar contributes to healthy veins, blood vessels, and arteries.

Garlic milk is an Ayurvedic approach that may treat many illnesses. It may help treat diseases of the lungs such as tuberculosis, asthma, and pneumonia. Garlic, with its anti-inflammatory properties, can help treat inflammation in the stomach and arthritis. Having garlic milk regularly in the morning may help treat jaundice. Garlic milk induces sound sleep and may be good for insomnia.