Introduction
The quality of protein in curd is the best. In the process of curd setting, the quantity of B vitamins especially thiamine, riboflavin and nicotamide doubles. Curd is easily digested as compared to milk.
Curd is of five types.
1. Mild
2. Sweet
3. Sweet acid
4. Acid
5. Acidic
1. Mild curd: The curd which has unclear juice like milk, i.e. half is set and half is not set, is called mild (raw curd). Mild (raw curd) should not be consumed. Its consumption causes diseases like stool and urine, Vata, Pitta, Kapha and burning sensation etc.
2. Sweet curd: The curd which is well set, has sweet sourness is called sweet curd. Sweet curd is very restrictive to the nerves and cleans the blood bile.
3. Swadvamal curd: The curd which is well set, sweet and astringent is called Swadvamal. The properties of Swadvamal curd are similar to the properties of ordinary curd.
4. Acid curd: The curd which does not have sweetness and is more sour is called acid or sour curd. Acid curd (sour curd) increases digestive power, spoils blood bile and increases blood bile and phlegm.
5. Atyamla curd: The curd which makes teeth sour, gives goosebumps and causes burning sensation in the throat etc. is called atyamla. This curd increases digestive power and produces gas and bile (heat). Properties Curd is very beneficial for people with hot mind. Curd stops thirst, massaging the cream of curd on the head gives the same benefit as is obtained from the seeds of bottle gourd and gourd. If curd is applied on the face, then it reduces the thirst of the body. If applied on face, it removes facial pigmentation, dryness and blackness.
Harmful effects
Sour curd produces bile and mucus. Eating too much sour curd makes teeth sour and hair on the body stand up, there is also burning sensation in the stomach.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Indigestion:
By adding roasted ground cumin, salt and black pepper in curd and eating it daily, indigestion (not digesting food) is cured and food is digested quickly.
2. Migraine:
If the headache increases and decreases with the sun, then this type of headache is called migraine (half head pain). The pain of migraine (half head pain) is cured by eating rice with curd. One should eat rice mixed with curd daily before the headache starts at sunrise in the morning.
3. Piles:
As long as bleeding continues in piles, keep eating only curd and stop all other things Do this. This stops bleeding in piles.
4. Food for children:
Curd is the best food for children after mother's milk. In Bulgaria, children who are not able to get mother's milk are given curd to eat.
5. Faras:
Mix salt in 1 cup curd. Apply this curd on hair to get rid of the phlegm of the head.
6. Boils, swelling, pain and burning sensation:
If there are boils, swelling, pain and burning sensation in the body, tie curd from which water has been drained, put curd in a cloth and tie it in a bundle and hang it. This will drain the water from the curd. Then apply it on the boil and tie a bandage. Changing the bandage 3 times a day is beneficial.
7. Insomnia:
Eating ground black pepper, fennel and sugar mixed in curd helps in getting sleep.
8. Bhang intoxication:
Bhang intoxication goes away by feeding fresh curd.
9. Whooping cough:
2 spoons curd, 1 spoon Mixing a spoonful of sugar and approximately one-fourth gram of black pepper in honey and feeding it to the child cures whooping cough in children.
10. Hair fall:
Apply sour curd to the roots of the hair and after massaging for a while, wash it with cold water. This stops hair fall.
11. Baldness:
Rub curd in a copper vessel for so long that it turns green. Applying it on the head starts hair growth in place of baldness.
12. Flatulence (formation of gas in the stomach):
Drinking curd buttermilk (sour curd water) is beneficial in flatulence (stomach gas).
13. Night blindness:
Grinding black pepper in curd water and applying it in the eyes like kajal gives relief in night blindness.
14. Inflammation and swelling of the tongue:
Mixing curd in water and gargling with it daily cures the burning sensation in the tongue.
Cooked curd with water Eating banana before sunrise (before the sun rises) eliminates pimples on the tongue.
