Improve Your Health With Papaya and Bengal Quince

Rajeev Sharma

Description

Nature has provided mankind with a gamut of fruits, vegetables, dairy products and other sources to maintain a healthy lifestyle. These natural sources of food are rich in vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and other essential nutrients. Moreover, they have numerous unexplored healing powers. Through this series, we have made a sincere attempt to unfold the various benefits of these foods. You will find a cure for every big or small disease in this invaluable series, and will discover what treasure nature holds.

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• Sciences et techniques
• Natural disaster

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• Publié par: Diamond Books
• Date de parution: 08 décembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9788128822322
• Langue: English

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There are several fruits such as apple, pomegranate, banana; vegetables like onion, garlic, radish, carrot, ginger; cereals; plants; honey; dairy products; water; wheatgrass; spices that help enhance our life immensely. Papaya & Bengal Quince are also those type of fruits which contains vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and many more but most of us are unaware about the properties of these nutritional substances. But how many people are aware of this!
Improve Your Health With
PAPAYA & BENGAL QUIENCE
 

 
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Improve Your Health With Papaya & Bengal Quince
By - Rajeev Sharma
PREFACE
A yurveda is an ancient age old science which has helped human beings a lot. In different ayurvedic texts, several home remedies are described with their medicinal properties.
There are several fruits such as apple, pomegranate, banana; vegetables like onion, garlic, radish, carrot, ginger; cereals; plants; honey; dairy products; water; wheatgrass; spices that help enhance our life immensely. These are regular items which we find around us but most of us are unaware about the properties of these nutritional substances. Balanced and healthy food itself is the key to good health.
The main aim of this series is to make general readers aware of these helpful healthy items, to which most of us are ignorant.
I have included those properties of each substance which are scientifically proved and are prevalent in our families through the times of our forefathers. Hopefully, you will find this series beneficial for the whole family. You can choose any one of these books depicting your choice and follow one formula only at a time. If there is any need, you can consult an ayurvedic physician or can write to me.
Dr. Rajeev Sharma AAROGYA JYOTI® 320-322, Teachers Colony , Bulandshahr (U.P.) - 203001 Email- [e-mail] , [e-mail]
CONTENTS Papaya - General Facts Medicinal Ingrediets of Papaya Medicinal Value of Different Parts Curative Properties of Papaya Home Made Papaya Medicines Bengal Kins (Bengal Quince) Banana and Date: Good Medicines for Stomach Plant Foods and Their Nutritive Values Guidelines from Ayurveda for Better Health Immune System and Essiac Benefits of Magnetized Water And Oil Low Calorie Slimming Recipes Average Nutritive Values of Foods Per 100GM
PAPAYA - GENERAL FACTS
P apaya (Carica Papaya) originates from tropical American countries. Today Papaya is cultivated in most tropical countries around the world. The tree grows upright from three to eight metres high and under special circumstances even up to ten metres high. Papaya trees normally have no branches, with the leaves and fruit growing directly from the trunk that can have a diameter of up to 20 cm. Only in rare cases, when the trunk is damaged no branches form. Papaya grows very fast and has a soft wood. The tropical plant cannot stand frost and even temperatures close to zero can kill.
The relatives of Papaya
There are around 30 varieties of Papaya with most of them having no commercial or medicinal value. The best-known relatives of Papaya are babaco (carica pentagona), the mountain Papaya (carica pubenscens) and Chamburo (carica stipulata).
The Papaya with the Latin name carica Papaya is called Pawpaw in Australia and New Zealand. The Pawpaw in North America with the Latin name (asimina tribola) is in no way related to the Papaya. The only thing both plants have in common is the common name and that both are used as a medicinal plant.
Pawpaw leaves (asimina tribola) and young shoots are used like the leaves, young shoots and unripe fruit of the Papaya (carica Papaya) as a medicine against cancer and parasites.
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MEDICINAL INGREDIETS OF PAPAYA
Protein - the digestibility is important
The following are the essential amino acids:
Isoleucine . Needed for growth, intelligence development and nitrogen balance within the body. Also assists with synthesising other non-essential amino acids.
Leucine . Helps to increase muscular energy levels and stimulate brain function.
Lysine . Used for forming blood antibodies, improves the circulatory system and promotes cell growth.
Methionine . Vital for metabolising fats and lipids that maintain a healthy liver. Also helps calm the nerves.
Phenylalanine . Used by the thyroid for the production of thyroxin that in turn governs metabolic rate.
Threonine . Improves competence of the intestines and thus aids digestion.
Tryptophane . Enhances the use of B group vitamins, improves nerve fibres. This in its turn contributes to emotional stability and calmness.
Valine . Assists with the co-ordination of the muscular system as well as contributing to improved mental capacity.
Arginine . Important for the production of (male) seminal fluid. Assists in keeping the blood clean. Papain breaks down protein and converts into arginine (Whitman Ray)
Histidine . Improves nerve relays, especially in the hearing organs. Has even been used as a remedy for deafness.
Another group of amino acids are termed as non-essential.
Non-essential means that if not present in the daily diet, they can be synthesised by the body; it does not mean that the body has no need of them.
Alanine . Strengthens the walls of cells.
Aspartic acid . Helps with the transformation of carbohydrates into energy.
Cystine . Aids with pancreatic health and thus stabilises blood sugar etc. May help towards alleviating food allergies.
Glutamic acid . Along with glucose it fuels the brain cells. Can reduce the craving for alcohol and also stabilise mental health.
Glycine . Promoter of energy.
Proline . A precursor of glutamic acid.
Serine . Helps with the formation of the fatty sheath surrounding nerve fibres.
Tyrosine . May slow the ageing of cells and suppresses hunger. Involved in the colouration of hair and skin, and indeed helps with sunburn protection.
Can Papain be used for diet sins?
Papaya can help to balance diet sins. After a meal you should have Papaya as a dessert or a cup of Papaya tea to help the digestion (or indigestion that one feels long after a heavy meal). Mucous in the intestines that negatively influence our digestion can be reduced and even intestinal parasites digested. For worm digestion , the Papaya should be consumed together with the seeds. Papain as the strongest protein - digesting super enzyme, can digest 35 times its own weight in meat. Papain is active in the digestive system in sour, alkaline or neutral suroundings.
Intestinal mucous built up in the intestine can be the cause of low energy, poor digestion and other illnesses. Partly digested protein stays in the intestinal walls and hinders proper digestion. Papain can digest the different proteins so that they are not blocking digestion and reduce, over a longer period of time, the existing build up. Papain can therefore be seen as an excellent body-cleansing agent breaking down hard-to-digest protein and setting free for example amino acid alanine to strengthen the cell walls.
Inefficient protein digestion may also be responsible for arthritis, constipation, diabetes, high blood pressure and so on. Papain sets amino acids free, detoxifies the body and in this way strengthens the body’s own immune system and can be seen as a first-class healer.
Beta-carotene - Papaya is rich in beta-carotene and tastes good. Spirulina is one of the foods richest in beta-carotene and is available in tablets and powder. When comparing foods and their beta-carotene content one has to be aware that fresh Papaya has a water content of around 90% and, for example, dried spirulina has a water content of 8%. Some vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, pumpkin and of course carrots have some beta-carotene cells. Beta-carotene is a potent antioxidant. When beta-carotene is converted to vitamin A it loses its antioxidant ability.
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MEDICINAL VALUE OF DIFFERENT FARTS
A ll parts of the plant can be used as medicine, fruit flesh, flowers, leaves, seeds, and stems, latex, bark and even roots.
The ripe fruits are rich in vitamins. They contain vitamins A, C and B-complex, amino acids, calcium, iron, enzymes and so on. The protein in Papaya is not only a highly digestible food but it also help to break up hard-to-digest-protein. Papaya is of great value to people with insufficient digestion or unhealthy diets and too much indigestible protein. The semi- ripe fruit tastes very good from most of the Papaya species and when soaked in a little bit of lemon juice and honey—is an absolute treat for the taste buds!
The green fruit has even higher nutritional properties than the fully ripe fruit, but doesn’t taste as pleasant. The green fruit is cooked and treated with salt or taken with syrup, honey or sugar. The green fruit has only 1/3 of the calories of the ripe fruit, but has approximately twice as much of highly digestible protein as the ripe fruit. The green fruit has only 2/3 of the carbohydrates. The fruit flesh of the green fruit has less beta- carotene then the ripe fruit, but more in the skin.
The leaf of the tree is probably the most valuable part of the plant. Fresh leaves are of higher value than the dried leaves as some beta-carotene is lost during the drying process due to oxidation. The leaves are richer in protein with approximately 15 times more than the ripe fruit. The fully ripened fruit has nearly no papain, however, on the other hand, the leaves are rich in papain.
The skin of the unripe fruit, and also from the ripe fruit, is treasured by many. One can make it tasty without decreasing the healing properties or conserving.
The seeds are the richest in highly digestible protein containing over 24% of it. They contain 32% carbohydrates and 25% oil including some essential oils. Similar to