Introduction
Spinach is a vegetable which is very beneficial for our health. Spinach is suitable for cultivation on all types of land except sandy land. Its green leafy vegetable is cooked by mixing it with soya bean or other leafy vegetables. Raw spinach tastes bitter and salty, but is beneficial. Raw spinach raita with curd is very tasty and beneficial. Spinach is a beneficial vegetable like nectar for humans and this vegetable is a complete food in itself, because calcium, vitamin-C and iron are found in abundance in it, which fulfill the nutrients in the body. Many types of medicines are also made from spinach.
Properties
Spinach is nutritious and a good food for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. During pregnancy, women should consume spinach in large quantities as salad or vegetable. Spinach provides nutritious food to the unborn child, makes his complexion fair and also increases weight. Spinach also cures lung decay. Spinach is also beneficial in intestinal diseases, diarrhea, dysentery (excessive diarrhea), etc. Spinach has a high blood-enhancing property. It cleanses the blood and strengthens the bones. It is lubricating, appetizing, diuretic (excessive urination), anti-inflammatory (removes swelling).
Harmful effects
Spinach is a wind-causing vegetable, so it should not be consumed during the rainy season.
Treatment of various diseases
1. Cough:
Gargling spinach juice is beneficial in cough, lungs and throat inflammation.
2. Blood disorder:
Consuming spinach cures blood disorder in the body.
3. Blood deficiency:
Mixing 1 teaspoon honey in half a glass of spinach juice and consuming it for 50 days purifies the blood of the body.
To overcome the blood deficiency, drinking spinach juice in the amount of 125 ml 3 times a day not only removes the blood deficiency but also creates redness on the face, enthusiasm and vitality in the body, and increases the flow of energy and blood flow. It is beneficial to eat spinach juice mixed in raw papaya or moong dal with its peel. It is also beneficial in jaundice, madness, hysteria (mental disorder), thirst, burning sensation and bile fever.
4. Improves eyesight:
Drinking spinach juice improves eyesight.
5. Pyorrhea:
Spinach juice strengthens teeth and gums. Drinking spinach juice after waking up in the morning cures the disease of a patient suffering from pyorrhea. Mixing carrot juice in it and consuming it stops bleeding from the gums.
Pyorrhea does not occur by eating spinach.
Extract spinach juice and rub it on the teeth or drink spinach juice on an empty stomach. This cures pyorrhea.
6. Frequent urination at night (polyuria):
Eating spinach vegetable in the evening reduces frequent urination.
7. Throat pain:
Boil spinach leaves and filter the water and squeeze the leaves too. Gargling with this hot water cures throat pain.
Take 250 grams of spinach leaves and boil them in 2 glasses of water and when half the water is left after boiling, filter it and gargle with hot water, this cures throat pain.
8. Digestive system diseases:
Drinking half a glass of raw spinach juice every morning cures constipation in a few days. Eating spinach vegetable is beneficial in intestinal diseases. By giving decoction of spinach leaves, stones melt and urine particles come out by increasing.
9. Blood disorders and dryness of the body:
Consuming spinach removes blood disorders and dryness of the body.
10. Breathing or asthma disease:
By consuming 3 to 6 grams of spinach seeds powder in the morning and evening, dyspnea (difficulty in breathing) is eliminated and breathing becomes normal.
In asthma and breathing problems, mixing rock salt in one cup of spinach juice and consuming it eliminates breathing and asthma disease.
In asthma and breathing diseases, one cup of spinach juice should be mixed with rock salt and black pepper and taken twice a day.
If there is cough, sore throat and swelling in the lungs, gargling with spinach juice is beneficial.
11. Toothache:
By mixing spinach juice in water and gargling with it daily, bleeding and pain in the teeth stops.
12. Fever:
Taking a decoction of the panchaang (leaves, roots, fruits, flowers and stem) of spinach in the morning and evening in the dose of 20 to 40 ml is beneficial in fever caused by swelling.
13. Constipation:
Eating spinach, fenugreek, bathua or amaranth vegetables provides relief from constipation.
Drinking raw spinach juice every morning prevents constipation and cures it in a few days. Eating spinach and bathua vegetables also reduces stomach gas.
14. Kidney diseases:
Taking 100 ml coconut water, mixing 10 ml spinach juice in it and drinking it helps in getting rid of stones in two weeks.
Consuming 20 grams to 40 ml decoction of spinach juice in the morning and evening is beneficial in kidney diseases.
15. Stone:
By extracting spinach juice and drinking it every morning and evening, stones dissolve quickly.
By consuming 10 to 20 ml of spinach juice, gallstones or any kind of stone are eliminated.
By extracting spinach leaves juice, mix half a cup of coconut water in one cup of juice and drink it every morning and evening. This dissolves the bladder stones and removes them.
According to some people, eating spinach causes stones, but understand for sure that consuming raw spinach juice does not cause stones.
16. Acidity:
Boil spinach and 5 pieces of pointed gourd together. Then cool it, add a little green coriander and salt to it and make juice. By giving this juice to a patient suffering from acidity in the morning and evening, it provides relief from burning sensation in throat and chest, belching and restlessness.
17. Enlargement of liver:
Consuming 3-6 grams of spinach seeds in the morning and evening relieves swelling in the liver.
18. Ascites (excessive water in the stomach):
Eating spinach vegetable without adding salt will be beneficial.
19. To reduce obesity:
Drinking 25 ml spinach juice mixed with 50 ml carrot juice helps in reducing fat.
Drinking 50 ml spinach juice mixed with 15 ml lemon juice helps in reducing obesity.
20. Eczema:
Eczema is cured by grinding spinach root in lemon juice and applying it.
21. Burning sensation during urination:
Drinking 50 ml spinach juice mixed with 100 ml coconut water helps in easy urination and also does not cause burning sensation.
