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Home remedy: When turmeric is mixed with jaggery, this mixture becomes imbued with anti-allergic and mucolytic properties i.e. expelling phlegm and eliminating allergies. When it is fed to a patient suffering from cough, it works as a medicine and eradicates the disease from its roots.
Khargon: Winter season is going on. But, due to clouds in Khargone for the past few days, people are feeling the heat. These fluctuations in weather are affecting people’s health. In this, cold and cough have become the most common thing. Because of which people have to make rounds of hospitals. But, even today, many people in rural areas are getting cured at home by trying home remedies suggested by elders.
This home remedy made from the mixture of jaggery and turmeric present in the home kitchen is so effective in cold that it provides relief to the victim from cough to a great extent in just one night. The special thing is that, it is fed to the victim before sleeping at night and after this he is prohibited from drinking water or eating anything. This recipe is considered a panacea for everyone from children to the elderly.
Benefits of eating jaggery and turmeric together
Khargone’s Ayurvedic expert Dr. Santosh Maurya says that turmeric and jaggery are considered medicines. Turmeric works as an anti-allergy and antibiotic. Whereas, jaggery has been said to be a cough suppressant. It contains alkali element, hence it reduces or melts the phlegm and expels it. At the same time, when turmeric is mixed with jaggery, this mixture becomes imbued with anti-allergic and mucolytic properties i.e. expelling phlegm and eliminating allergies. When it is fed to a patient suffering from cough, it works as a medicine and eradicates the disease from its roots.
The most reliable solution in villages today
Let us tell you that, not only in the olden times but even today in the villages, people consider this indigenous remedy to be the most reliable. Many times, when even doctors’ medicines have no effect, people consume this. To prepare this mixture, take a piece of jaggery, add it in equal quantity or quickly as per taste and mix it well. Then they make a pill and suck it until it is finished.
Right time and way to eat
It is always fed before sleeping at night. So that one can get the benefit of medicinal properties till morning. It is prohibited to drink water or eat anything after eating this. Dr. Santosh Maurya explains that one should not drink water because it reduces the alkaline properties present in turmeric and jaggery and the effect of the medicine is not as effective. If absolutely necessary, you can drink lukewarm water, do not drink cold water.
