About Health
How
to keep healthy this was one major question to every working personal, either
he is working in corporate world either he/she is working in Govt. Organisation
either else house holds. Then take a
simple steps to keep healthy :-
·
Health
is a State of balance and happiness.
·
We
must wakeup early in the morning a little before sunrise.
·
Drink
2-4 glasses of safe drinking water.
·
Go
to the toilet.
·
Clean
the teeth using any paste. This will
make the teeth strong and protect from oral diseases.
·
Massage
the body with mustard or sesame oil
·
Exercise
or do suryanamaskar till sweat beads from on borehead and armpits.
·
Take
a warm water to bath. Use water boiled
with neem leaves in rainy season, with nagod leaves in winter and with butea
flowers in summer.
·
Rub
the wipe the body dry and wear clean clothes according to seasons.
·
Wash
the hair with cold water, using a decoction made from soap nut, shikakai and
amla. Apply oil in hair and rub the same
on soles.
·
Meditate
for a while before you sleep.
·
Sleep
early, but at least two hours after dinner.
Sleep on a clean bed with head toward south or east.
·
Wash
your hands, feet and face before eating.
ü Eat in clean utensils and place. Eat when you are hungry, in a peaceful state
of mind. Eat with interest in food.
ü Eat a light, freshly cooked breakfast.
ü Lunch when the sun is exactly over head, around 12.00 noon.
This facilitates digestion of food.
ü Eat food which has a balance of sweet, sour, salt, pungent,
bitter and astringent tastes.
ü Have dinner before or a short while after sunset.
ü Have a betel leaf with digestive herbs like mint, foeniculum,
cinnamon etc should be taken after meals.
ü Drink Buttermilk at the end of meals and milk at the end of
the day.
How to maintain healthy :-
Eat daily nutrition foods like All
cereals and tubers, nuts, sugar, Jaggery, Oil, ghee, butter etc are give energy
to our body.
v All Pulses, milk and
milk products, groundnuts, meat, eggs, fish etc. to help in growing and
maintaining wear and tear of body.
v All Vegetables and
fruits, milk and milk products, egg, meat, fish, cereals and pulses prevent
illness.
v Green leafy
vegetables, jiggery, all pulses, liver, meat, germinated pulses, cereals like
bajri(pear millet), and citrus fruits like lemon, amala and guava from eating
these food to keep our blood red.
v Milk and milk
products, dark yellow and orange vegetables and fruits like pumpkin, papaya,
carrot from these foods to make our eyes bright.
v Milk and milk
products, cereals, pulses, banana, meat, eggs, etc. these foods make our bones
strong.
From these food we need to eat
daily. Boys and girls, men and women, in
all life stages need to eat foods from all the above said groups. Eating food to keep us healthy and fit so
that we are able to work in every place.
But do not discriminate between boy and girl.
Age wise food requirements are also
very important like new born baby or infancy children’s should eat below said
foods:-
v Breastfeed the
newborn immediately after birth. Feed
colostrums to the newborn as it makes the baby strong. The baby should be exclusively breastfeed for
six months of age.
v At six months of age,
feed the baby girls and boy, soft, mushy foods, with plenty of body building
and energy rich food cooked at home.
v Continue feeding the
infant various types of food, several times during the day. Include foods from all the three groups.
v Continue feeding the
child energy rich foods even during sickness.
Feed the child one extra meal, for a week after the illness.
v In the child hood
feed the girl and boy, foods from all the three groups, particularly energy
rich foods, frequently during the day.
v Give body building
and energy rich foods requently. Girls should be given food that keep the blood
red. In adulthood women and men should
eat foods from all the three groups, based on the work they do.
v During pregnancy
women should eat foods that keep the blood red, eyes bright and provide
energy. After childbirth and during
breastfeeding, a woman should eat foods that provide energy and keep the blood
red. Older people should eat foods that
provide energy, keep the bones strong and are soft cooked.
Vitamin
A Deficiency :-
Child complains about poor eyesight
in the dark. Eyes become dry and the
white portion looses shine and becomes wrinkled. Grey bubble patches are formed in white
portion of eyes.
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Five
doses of Vitamin A are given to children from 6 months to 3 y3ars of age at the
any Anganwadi Center or in nearest Hospitals.
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Breast
feed the child for two years. From six
months of age, feed foods that keep the eyes healthy.
Home
remedies to keep healthy :
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If you have nausea
and vomiting problem : Soak a teaspoonful of foeniculum seeds (saunf which one
add in our eating pan also) (variali saunf) in a clay vessel, at night. In the morning, mash the soaked foeniculum,
add sugarcandy as per taste and drink it on an empty stomach. Drink plenty of fresh butter milk, lemon
juice, curd (yogurt) and coconut water.
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Heat Exhaustion : Drink at least 10-12
glasses of water and also other fluids frequently like lemon water, butter milk
etc., Drink ¼ th cup of onion juice or
eat 1 onion before moving out in the sun. Or boil one unripe mango and squeeze
its pulp. Mis it in 2 glasses of water
add roasted jeera powder, salt, jiggery / sugar and min leaves. During it several times during the day.
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Skin infection and
allergies :
Boild Margosa (neem) leaves in water till the water turns yellowish green
(water and neem leaves taken according to the need). Use this water for bathing and washing the
affected part. Or rub the inner bark of
the need trunk on a clean stone and prepare a paste. Apply this paste on the affected part. Or apply coconut oil on the affected part in
case there is itching on the skin.
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Respiratory /
Breathing Problems :
Eat ½ tea spoon of gooseberry (Amla or nellikai) powder with honey or
water. Eat them in plenty during change
of season, in any form.
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Cough and difficult
breathing :
Take a plant of Kanteri (Bhoin ringni, Solanum xanthocarpum) Chop it and boil
it in water till it halves in quantity.
Drink this in the morning on an empty stomach, till the problem
subsides. If there is a lot of sputum,
boil 3-4 leaves or Ardusi (Malabar nut) in a cup of water, till half the
quantity remains. Drink this on an empty
stomach in the morning and at night.
Drinking hot water and
doing salt water gargling helps.
When there is
congestion, boil water and add bishops seeds (ajwain). Inhale the steam.
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For Aches and Pains :
Boil
leaves of nagod (vitex negundo). When it
becomes lukewarm, pour it on the affected area.
You may heat leaves of castor (errand) and tie them on the affected
part.
Keep healthy and Our health is in our Hands
only.
I am shared my
Personal Experience and Personal Opinion on this.
