Home/health tips

• Relieve yourself when tired! – Drink a concoction of one teaspoon honey dissolved in half a glass of lukewarm water.
• Leafy vegetables will remain fresh longer if wrapped in a newspaper and stored.
• Seal cracks in flower vases with candle wax.

Pepper Corns :

• Increases the digestion process and stimulates appetite.
• Helps in curing cough and colds.

Carrots :

• Contains Vitamin A, K and C.
• Is good for our eyes.
• Strengthens our teeth and gums.

Sugarcane :

• Helps in keeping the body active.
• Prevents indigestion and helps to reduce excess body weight.

Cauliflower :

• Contains minerals and vitamins.
• Helps to build our immune system.
• Helps to reduce excess body weight.

Bittergourd :

• Helps in reducing the excess sugar and fat content from our blood.
• Helps to build our immune system

Corn :

• Contains Vitamins and Anti-oxidants.
• Cures indigestion problems.
• Is good for our eyes.

Fenugreek ( Methi / Vendhayam / Menthulu) is an annual herb, however, the leaves can be grown throughout the year. Just smear the seeds on the soil and sprinkle water on them. Within a week you will have lush green fenugreek herb ready to be eaten as a salad.

It contains protein, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorous iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin. There are several alkaloids found in fenugreek, which are beneficially converted in the body to work as anti-diabetic and anti-rheumatic agents.

Regular consumption of fenugreek in the form of sprouts or salads of the leaves would keep the whole system healthy and thoroughly clean. It has properties that heal ulcers of the mouth, throat, stomach, and the intestines.

Fenugreek helps cleanse the body of its various congested toxins. You can consume fenugreek seeds by soaking a teaspoon of them overnight in water. In the morning eat the softened fenugreek and drink the water.

The seeds can be powdered and a teaspoon of powder can be mixed with curd or yoghurt and taken. Fenugreek seeds could also be sprouted and eaten, fresh and raw along with salads. The leaves can also be eaten fresh in salads. You may consume the seeds or the leaves in any way you wish and you will benefit.   

• Unused or expired Ointments tubes need not be thrown away. You can use the ointment to grease creaky, squeaky hinges of doors and windows.
• If your silver jewellery( without stones) turns black, place them in a saucepan or vessel, add some water and slices of a cut potato and boil it for 10 minutes, you will notice that the jewellery has regained its shine.
• Breadcrumbs will stick better to meat or fish if you chill them for 20 minutes before frying.
• Keep a record of everything that you purchase and review it every month. If you discover that you have not used most of the things that you have purchased, you can resist impulse purchases the next month.

Curtains :

Curtains are the unsung heroes of the home furnishing world. They protect us from the summer sun and the winter cold and the strong winds and dust etc.

Most of us do not realize that they play an integral part of the home’s airflow system, filtering out the dust from the air that blows in and out of our windows. We owe it to our curtains also for giving us clean and dust-free air to breathe.

So, please remember to take care of them regularly. Dust your curtains once a month. And try and wash them or dry clean them once in 2 months, depending on their fabric. This is to enable them to allow clean air to pass through our windows.