Introduction
Guava tree is usually grown in all the states of India. Allahabadi guava of Uttar Pradesh is world famous. It is especially tasty. The height of its tree is 10 to 20 feet. The branches are thin and weak. The part of its stem is smooth, brown in colour, covered with thin white bark. The wood under the bark is smooth. Its leaves are light green, rough, 3 to 4 inches long, rectangular, fragrant and the stalk is short.
Guavas are red and yellowish green in colour. Guavas with seeds and without seeds and very sweet and sweet-sour types are usually seen. Red guavas are more beneficial than white ones. Guavas with white pulp are sweeter. The weight of the fruit is usually 30 to 450 grams.
It is usually seen that when people go to buy fruits, they think that only fruits like banana, apple, grapes and mango are full of nutrients. They consider cheap and easily available fruits like guava as useless and fit only for the poor, but in reality it is not so. Guava contains more nutrients than apple. That is why it is also called the 'apple of the poor'. Guava is a sweet and laxative (cleanses the stomach by causing diarrhea) fruit and its regular use not only removes stool obstruction, but also destroys vata-pitta, mania (madness), fainting, epilepsy, stomach worms, typhoid and burning sensation etc. In Ayurveda, it is described as cool, sharp, astringent, acidic and sperm-generating (sperm enhancer). Here the nutrients found in apple and guava are being compared, from which you can guess how much more nutritious guava is.
Properties
Guava contains a lot of vitamin C and sugar. Guava also contains a lot of pectin. Eating guava with its seeds is very useful, due to which the stomach remains clean. Guava is used in making chutneys, jelly, jam and cheese from the fruit.
Harmful effects
Guava is harmful for people with a cold nature and those who have a weak stomach. In the rainy season, white worms like tiny threads are produced inside guava, which can cause stomach pain, flatulence, cholera to the person who eats it. Its seeds are not easily digested due to being hard and if they go into the appendix, they can cause appendicitis. Therefore, consumption of its seeds should be avoided. It has two varieties: - first white-embryo and second red-pink-embryo. The white variety is sweeter. Grafted guava also contains good quality guavas. They are very big and hardly 4-5 seeds come out in it. This type of guava is found in Banaras (Uttar Pradesh).
Treatment for various diseases
1. Dry cough:
Roasting guava in hot sand and eating it gives relief in dry, phlegmatic and black cough. Do this experiment three times a day. Take a big guava, take out its pulp and make a small space inside the guava and fill it with ground carom seeds and ground black salt in the amount of 6-6 grams. After this, fill the guava with a cloth and put soil on top and roast it in the ashes of very hot cow dung cakes. After the guava is roasted, remove the soil and cloth and grind the guava and filter it. Mixing half a gram of it in honey and licking it in the morning and evening gives relief in dry cough.
2. Cold:
To get rid of a stagnant cold, eat the guava without seeds and then close your nose and drink 1 glass of water. When the discharge increases after 2-3 days of use, eat 50-100 grams of jaggery to stop it. Remember- do not drink water after that. Eating guava continuously for just 3 days cures chronic cold and cough. In case of a cold that has been stuck for a long time, remove the seeds from inside a big guava and feed it to the patient and give fresh water to drink after closing the nose. The stuck cold will be cleared in 2-3 days. If you want to stop the nose flow after 2-3 days, eat 50 grams of jaggery at night without drinking water.
3. Chronic diarrhea:
Boiling soft guava leaves and drinking it cures chronic diarrhea. If there is mucus in the diarrhea, there is swelling in the intestines, there is a wound, then eating 250 grams of guava daily for 2-3 months continuously is beneficial in diarrhea. Guava contains tannic acid, whose main function is to heal wounds. This heals the wounds of the intestines and makes the intestines healthy.
4. For knee pain:
Grinding soft guava leaves and applying it on the painful areas of arthritis is beneficial.
5. Mouth ulcers:
Eating guava after meals daily provides relief from ulcers. Mixing catechu in guava leaves and chewing them like betel leaf cures mouth ulcers.
6. Arthritis:
To cure arthritis pain, grinding 5-6 new guava leaves, adding a little black salt to it and consuming it daily provides relief to the patient.
7. Malaria:
Eating guava is beneficial in malaria fever. Regular consumption also provides relief in Tijara and Chauthia fever. Drinking guava and apple juice reduces the fever. Eating guava is beneficial in malaria.
8. Heart:
Chutney made by removing the seeds of guava fruits and chopping them into fine pieces and making them on low flame with sugar is very beneficial for the heart and also removes constipation.
9. Chronic cold:
By eating only guava for 3 days, the problem of chronic cold gets cured. 10. Mouth disease:
In mouth disease, barley, guava leaves and acacia leaves. Burning all these and filling the mouth with its smoke cures the throat and destroys the pimples in the mouth. 11. Diabetes:
Put ripe guava on fire and take it out, and make a mash of it, add salt, black pepper, cumin seeds as per requirement and consume it. This gives relief from diabetes.
