Coffee Can Save us from Liver and Diabetic Ailments

Coffee, joe or java as it is also called, is a well known drink known to almost everybody in this world. Its most common use of drinking is like tea or green tea mixed in warm water. It is liked almost by everybody and savored at breakfast, lunch and dinner, in all types of parties and get-together.

According to a news report published in Daily Jang, Lahore of May 22, 2013 quoting a recent research conducted in New York, we can save ourselves from dangerous ailments of liver by drinking coffee (daily and regularly). During the conduct of this research in the United States, a group of liver patients and purely healthy people were served with coffee. According to the results of this research the chances of PSC were reduced amongst those who were drinking coffee.

Last year during a research conducted in Europe it was found out that those who were drinking moderate amount of coffee (3 to four cups daily) the chances of their diabetic ailment can be reduced to up to 35 per cent.

It is advisable only to take coffee without adding milk and sugar in it. It is usually called black coffee. For health benefits many people take green coffee without adding milk and sugar.

Several other studies also reveal that regular drinking (about three to four cups) of coffee, tea and green tea may lower the risk of heart attack. However, it is to be cautioned that excessive drinking of coffee may lead to effects detrimental to health.

Regular drinkers of coffee may run lower risk of dementia, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer's diseases.

Eating fruit at a workplace increases efficiency and productivity

It has been indicated by medical scientists that eating fruit regularly at a workplace by workers when they are hungry increases their efficiency and productivity. Fruits provide adequate source of energy and nutrition to those workers and officials who have to perform their day to day work at their factories or offices. A research work presented at the American College of Cardiology further indicates that fruits not only diminish the impending danger of diabetics but also increase the resistance of the body of a human being thereby making him more lively, vigorous and smart. Ref. [Urdu daily] Express, Lahore, March 19, 2010.

Kalonji Oil

Like Kalonji tea, Kalonji oil (Caraway, Black Seed) is popularly known for its manifold uses. Its therapeutic (medicinal) use has made it as one of the most widely used herbs in the Muslim world, as Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has recommended it’s used for curing all diseases except death. He (PBUH) Himself used to take it as medicine with honey. Kalonji is also used as pickle in India and Pakistan and the Arabian world. In Indian Pakistan and Arabian cuisine it is also popularly used as a food recipe as an important ingredient of spices. A few drops (four or five) or half tea soon of Kalonji oil are mostly taken mixed in warm water for helping to cure several diseases. Mixing honey in it gives an added advantage. Diabetics should, however, avoid taking honey and should take only Kalonji oil. In few diseases kalonji oil is also rubbed on the forehead (for headache), rubbed on head for falling hair and other hair diseases, a drop or two inserted in the ear for ear-ache, etc. Though Kalonji is recommended to be used for curing several diseases except plague, in general Kalonji oil is recommended for curing following ailments. The list will become much longer if taken with other ingredients. But since the purpose of this blog is to recommend easy to use, inexpensive and mostly available domestic totaka (tip, it is hoped it will suffice for the time being.

Headache, migraine: Rub Kalonji oil on the head and forehead. Drink ten drops of kalonji oil along with one teaspoon honey.

Digestion: Ajwain 4 tola, Six drops of kalonji oil, drench them in lemon and let it dry in the sun. Take a chutki after every meal.

Obesity: Drink four drops of Kalonji oil with one lemon three times a day. Continue this practice for at least a couple of months.

General Weakness: Take four drops of Kalonji Oil along with one teaspoon hone three times a day for at least one month.

Falling Hair: Rub kalonji oil on the head daily and take half spoon kalonji oil three times a day.

Kidney Stone and urinary bladder stone: Take ten drops of Kalonji oil along with one teaspoon honey after dinner.

Stomach Pain: Take ten drops of Kalonji Oil mixed in warm water, with little salt.

Strengthening of Stomach: Take one glass of apple juice, add ten drops of kalonji oil, add little cumin (zeera or jeera), Black pepper, salt and drink daily for at least fifteen days.

Worms: Drink Half spoon crushed Kalonji seeds adding two drops of Kalonji Oil and 11 drops of Vinegar.

Asthma: Take some Kalonji oil, add Desi Ghee and little salt and rub it on throat and chest. Also take half teaspoon kalonji oil with two table spoons of honey.

Asthma, Breathing Problem: Mix salt, Kalonji along with Desi Ghee and rub on chest and throat. Take 12 drops of kalonji oil, add half teaspoon of honey and drink.

Epilepsy (Mirgee), Paralysis:Drink two teaspoons of Kalonji oil along with one teaspoon honey after mixing in warm water twice a day.

Teeth/Gums Ache: Take one drop each of Kalonji Oil and Clove Oil, mix it and rub it on the teeth.

Teeth whitening: Grind salt and burn it, add ten drops each of kalonji oil and mustard oil and rub it on the teeth.

Strengthening Memory Power and forgetfulness: Grind half teaspoon, add one teaspoon honey and ten drops of kalonji oil and drink daily for about one month. Suck three/ four pieces of Dar Cheeni daily.

You may also take 30 grams of cream (butter) adding one spoon of brown sugar and half tea spoon kalonji oil.

Diabetes (Sugar): Drink one cup of warm water after adding one tea spoon of Kalonji oil in it, Continue taking it for least one month.

Lever weakness: Drench Ajowan (Ajwain) one tola in water let it remain under the sun during day time and under the dew at night time. Next day drink its water adding six drops of kalonji.

Urine Burning: Take 250 grams of milk add eight drops of kalonji oil and one table spoon of honey.

Hiccup: Add half teaspoon kalonji seeds and six drops of kalonji oil in warm water and drink.

Skin diseases: Acne (pimples). Take half tea spoon of Kalonji Oil, mix it with one cup of vinegar and rub it on the affected places. Also continued this process in the case of other skin diseases.

Skin Diseases (Baras): Take half tea spoon kalonji oil and apply on the affected areas before going to bed. Wash body with soft soap next morning.

Preventive diet in sickness

While you are sick whatever effective medicines you take, unless you have a balanced diet and you don’t have control on the diet you can’t be cured properly. If your eating and drinking habits are not proper, nothing can aid in your fast recovery. The more you are knowledgeable about your diet and put that knowledge into practice in timely intake and not to take of the diet, the more you will be able to keep yourself away from diseases. If you are thoughtful about eating and drinking, it will definitely improve your health. When you fall sick you should in fact be more careful in your diet and you should better seek advice of your physician before eating. But for a dangerous disease, you can cure yourself by balanced diet.

Recommended herein is the diet you should take and not to take in the case of different forms of following ailments.

Eczema, boils, itching and other related skin diseases: Eat spinach, radish, onion, tomato and guava.

Dysentery: Eat yogurt, diluted milk, diluted yogurt and rice.

Fever: Take only light food, orange and avoid fats.

Acidity: Avoid pickle.

Ulcer: Don’t eat lemon, orange and other citrus fruit.

Lever: Eat pomegranate and avoid sugar, biscuits and fats.

Wounds and Boils and other related diseases: Take less salt.

High Blood Pressure and Hypertension: Don’t take salt.

Low Blood Pressure: Take salt.

Catarrh: Don’t take milk, ghee and other fats.

Kidney: Take Melon and watermelon.

Asthma, TB and Cancer: Avoid smoking.

Sciatica: Potato, Rice, Banana, citrus fruit, pickle, tomato and peach are dangerous.

General Weakness and improving digestion: take one glass of orange juice daily.

Diabetes: Don’t take bananas, mangos, dates, guava, sugar and other sweet things. Can eat citrus fruits like damson, pineapple, pomegranate and can also eat raw cabbage.

Kalonji as a Tea

Drinking half tea-spoon of crushed (ground) Kalonji seeds simmered with one tea-cup of boiled water three or four times in a day continuously at least for two months is found to be very useful for following types of ailments:

• Chronic bronchitis, asthma, cough
• Common cold
• Diabetes
• Extraction of mucus from various body organs: nose, lungs, intestines, digestive system, etc.
• Weakness of nervous system, brain and forgetfulness.
• Allergies
• Gas, indigestion and stomach dysfunction

Kalonji – one of the most important herbs

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Kalonji as it is called in Hindi and Urdu, Shooneez in Persian, Nigella sativa, caraway in English and not the least Habbatul baraka, Black Seed called in Arabic the language of our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), available almost in the whole world, has been used in Unani Tibb or Ayurvedic forms of treatment as one of the most important ingredients of such medicines. Various Hadiths of the Prophet (PBUH) have been narrated that (Kalonji) Black Seed can heal every disease except death. It has also been narrated that the Prophet (PBUH) himself used to use Kalonji with Honey for various types of ailments.
It is recommended that a few grams of Kalonji should always be kept at home especially in a village (country side) and use it in several domestic totakas (a tip for curing a problem) where it can do wonders being cheaper and easily available in the absence of other medical treatment.
Traditionally, Kalonji oil, Kalonji syrup or crushed Kalonji seeds are being used for ailments, to mention only a few, like Allergies of various types, Asthma, Cancer, Cough causing Mucus (Balgham), Diabetes, Arthritis, Headache, gas, indigestion, stomach dysfunction, Mirgee (a disease of the nervous system that causes a person to fall unconscious), Dandruff and hair loss, Obesity, Piles, stomach worms, tooth care and several other diseases. Half tea spoon of crushed kalonji seeds two/three times a day or three or four drops of kalonji oil useful for maintaining general health condition or preventing many types of body ailments.