Introduction
Date palm trees are thin and very tall. Date palm trees are similar to coconut trees. They are 30 to 50 feet tall and their stems are 3 feet long and dusty made of fibers. Date palm leaves are pointed and cut and 10 to 15 feet long. Its flowers are fragrant and small. Fruits are in small bunches and inside them the seeds are hard and round from both the ends.
Dates are of two types - date palm and pind date palm. The fruit of pind date palm is pulpier and much bigger than the fruit of date palm. This fruit is called chhuhara when dried. Date palm is also a nutritious dry fruit. Fresh juice of date palm is called neera and stale juice is called toddy.
Properties
Date palm is cool and cold.
Harmful effects
Using dates excessively burns the blood.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Cold and cough:
Boil dates well in a glass of milk and then eat the dates after removing them from the milk and drink the same milk on top to get quick relief from cold and cough.
2. Headache:
Grind the dates seed in water and apply it on the head to cure headache.
3. To make the body fat:
Boil 2 dates in a cup of milk and eat them and drink the same milk on top. In this way, eating dates and drinking milk every morning and evening for a few months makes the body fat. Eating it in the winter months is more beneficial and effective.
4. Frequent urination:
Eating 2 dates twice a day and eating 2 dates before sleeping and drinking milk stops frequent urination. This also cures the habit of urinating on the bed.
5. Styes (eye pimple or stye):
Stye is cured by rubbing the dates seed and applying it on the eyelids.
6. Asthma:
Asthma is cured by putting dates and dry ginger powder in equal quantity in betel leaf and eating it 3 times a day.
By mixing dates seed powder and 3 grams of fennel powder and using it with betel leaf, breathing obstruction caused due to asthma is cured. Eating dates is beneficial in asthma.Asthma is cured by grinding 4 dates, 2 cardamoms and 2 teaspoons of honey in a mortar and consuming it.
Dry disease in children: Dry disease is cured by mixing dates and honey in equal quantity and eating it 2 times a day for a few weeks.
7. Wound:
Burn the dates' seed and make powder and sprinkle this powder on the wound. This dries the wound.
8. Loss of appetite:
Eating date chutney mixed with lemon juice removes loss of appetite.
9. Repeated diarrhea:
Make powder of date seeds and eat it with curd to cure diarrhea.
10. Stoppage of diarrhea:
Burn the dates' seed and make powder and consume this powder in the amount of 2-2 grams with cold water 2 to 3 times a day. This cures diarrhea.
Soak dates in water at night and mash them in the same water in the morning and drink. This clears the stool and removes the blockage of stool.
11. Raktapitta:
Make powder of dates and eat it with honey to cure the disease of Raktapitta (vomiting blood).
12. Constipation:
Consuming dates with warm water at night before sleeping relieves constipation. It also relieves the problem of piles.
Eating 50 grams of dates every day ends constipation. To cure constipation, give only 25 grams of it to children.
Soak dates in water and keep it overnight, mash it in the morning and eat it on an empty stomach, it clears the stomach.
13. Alcohol intoxication:
By soaking dates in water and mashing and drinking it, alcohol intoxication goes away.
14. Itching:
Burning the seed of a date and mixing camphor and ghee in its ash and applying it on itching cures itching.
15. Weakness of the semen:
In the winter season, eating dates roasted in ghee in the morning and drinking boiled milk with cardamom, sugar and Kaunch increases semen.
Remove the seeds from the date and grind its pulp and then add almonds, baldana, pistachio, chironji, sugar in it. Now mix it in ghee and keep it for 8 days. Eating 20 grams of it daily strengthens the body and calms the bile.
16. Back pain:
Boil 5 dates and add 5 grams of fenugreek in it and drink it, it cures back pain.
17. Gout (Rheumatism):
Soaking and mashing 100 grams of dates and drinking it cures rheumatism pain.
18. Hysteria:
Consuming dates as a regular diet for a few months cures hysteria in women.
19. Liver disease:
Soak 4 to 5 dates in water and keep it overnight, mash it in the morning and mix it with honey and drink it for about 7 days. This stops the growth of the liver and calms the burning sensation.
20. Stomach gas:
Mix 50 grams of dates, 10 grams of cumin, 10 grams of rock salt, black pepper, 10 grams of dry ginger, 5 grams of pipramul and 80 ml of lemon juice and grind them finely and consume it. This eliminates stomach gas.
21. TB disease:
Consuming dates is beneficial for tuberculosis patients. Taking dates, raisins, sugar, ghee, honey and pepper in equal amounts and consuming 30 grams daily cures TB disease. It also cures cough and breathlessness.
22. Cough:
Eating dates with 4 or 5 sips of warm water after meals every day is beneficial. This makes the phlegm thin and comes out in the form of sputum or cough. This clears the lungs. It also cures cold, flu, cough and asthma.
23. Teeth ache:
If there is any kind of pain in the teeth, make a decoction of date palm root and gargle 2 to 3 times a day to get rid of the pain.
24. Dry cough:
Dry cough is cured by consuming dates.
