I have often remarked to my children about the dishes we eat.
Human beings have to first eliminate what is not poisonous.
Choose what is tasty,then what is Healthy.
Find the various ingredients.
Arrive at mixture that is both tasty and nutritious.
Imagine how many Man Years are needed to arrive at the complex dishes Indian Cuisine offers!
Now the Computer designed recipe is out.
One of the first, which is acknowledged is a Dish involving Turmeric and Spices Combination ‘Indian Turmeric Paella.
Story:
First Computer Designed Recipe, Indian Turmeric Paella.
“If you look at chess, it’s a deductive problem. All the pieces are on the board and you deduce what to do,” project lead Lav Varshney tells Co.Design. But cooking isn’t chess. A chef must choose their own pieces to construct not an objective goal (a checkmate), but a complex and highly subjective interplay of flavor, texture, and presentation to delight our senses. It’s inductive reasoning, something IBM began to explore with Watson (a system that had to reason Jeopardy answers that weren’t on a chess board).
“We’ve been interested in pushing computing to a new direction, computational creativity. We’re trying to draw on data sets, not just to make inferences about the world, but to create new things you’ve never seen,” Varshney says.
And somewhere amidst the seemingly infinite possibilities, sheer numeric processing gives way to a seemingly magical, entirely human process: Creativity.
I was brought up in a small town,no, a big village, where I used to play at least for six hours a day.
Not a day passed without me getting some injury, generally somewhere beneath the knee.
This is apart from the hits I used to receive from friends, generally a black-eye.
Twice a month , at least, I remember having had Fever.
English: Photograph of “Tulasi” pods – a common household plant in India. The plant is worshiped amongst Hindus in India as a deity. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Running nose was perpetual.
For knee and other injuries,my mother used to apply Turmeric heated in Gingelly Oil (as a paste) -Nallennai
For Cough,a fistful of Tulasi leaves with powdered pepper boiled in water.
Mixing turmeric powder( a pic in hot milk will get rid of throat infections.
In case of Burns apply heated turmeric paste(Warmed)
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a rhizomatousherbaceousperennial plant of the ginger family, Zingiberaceae.[2] It is native to tropicalSouth Asia and needs temperatures between 20 °C and 30 °C (68 °F and 86 °F) and a considerable amount of annual rainfall to thrive.[3] Plants are gathered annually for their rhizomes, and propagated from some of those rhizomes in the following season.
When not used fresh, the rhizomes are boiled for several hours and then dried in hot ovens, after which they are ground into a deep orange-yellow powder commonly used as a spice in curries and other South Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine, for dyeing, and to impart color to mustard condiments. Its active ingredient is curcumin and it has a distinctly earthy, slightly bitter, slightly hot peppery flavor and a mustardy smell. Curcumin can be used to test the alkalinity or acidity of foods. It turns yellow in an acidic food, and it turns red in an alkaline food. [4]
In medieval Europe, turmeric became known as Indian saffron, since it was widely used as an alternative to the far more expensive saffron spice.
Now onto other Natural antiseptics.
1. Echinacea (echinacea purpurea)
This is top of the list because it’s just so damn useful. Echinacea helps support a healthy immune system. It also has antibacterial and antibiotic properties. If you start to feel something coming on, dosing yourself with a tincture of echinacea is a good way to help you stay healthy. At the very least, you won’t stay sick as long. It works well in conjunction with vitamin C.
2. Goldenseal (hydrastis canadensis)
A powerful antibacterial, antibiotic, and antiparasitical potion. Goldenseal in its powdered form can be applied to open cuts to help them from getting infected. On the road it’s best used in a tincture if you get something funky from dirty water or street food. It can zap parasites and help to keep your intestinal tract free of them. Coupled with echinacea, it can take on more serious colds like strep throat when you are in a pinch.
Few things can kill a travel buzz like bad menstrual cramps. Cramp bark is a herbal alternative to over-the-counter painkillers. Cramp bark goes farther than just dulling the pain, it also helps to chill out the muscles that are causing the pain, thereby stopping the cramps. Take it in a tincture.
All-Heal, Self- Heal and Heal-All are all common names of a plant which has many uses: antibiotic, antiseptic, astringent. The primary use for travelers is as a salve or ointment. All-Heal salve is used in all the ways you would use Neosporin to help keep cuts clean and heal faster. It has antibiotic properties to help prevent infection and heals cuts with remarkable speed. Look for an All-Heal salve or ointment sold under many brands.
Stomach troubles are one of the most common issues among travelers. Bothginger and peppermint are adept at soothing stomach upsets. They work with remarkable speed and gingerespecially has properties which actually aid your body in digesting. Ginger tea or pastilles are good for combating motion sickness and nausea.
6. Arnica (arnica montana)
Arnica is commonly found in two forms, either as a gel( look for Boiron brand) or in homeopathic pellets. The gel, when used externally, is wonderful for removing bruises, bringing down puffiness or swelling, and easing deep aches. Internally, it can be used to alleviate headaches and help your body recover from trauma, such as when you tip over your moped.
7. Tea Tree Oil (melaleuca alternifolia)
Native to Australia, the tea tree plant produces a powerful astringent oil. Strong smelling tea tree oil should always be diluted in water, as a few drops goes a long way. It can be used to cleanse scratches and abrasions, to clean the face and in a neti pot to clean the sinuses. Drop a few drops in water and swish in your mouth like mouthwash if you are out of toothpaste. It can also reduce skin irritations, especially of the fungal variety.
8. Licorice Tea
Licorice tastes delicious, is naturally sweet, and is super if you have a sore throat. It has mucilaginous properties that help keep dry throats from being scratchy, especially useful when traveling through smog and pollution. The tea can also be used to help get your digestion moving if you have cured the runs a little too well or eaten one too many fried morsels.
9. Emer-gen-C
While not a herb or homeopathic, Emer-gen-C is one of God’s gifts to travelers. Found in most US natural health and vitamin stores, it is a powdered, super-concentrated dose of Vitamin C that helps prevent you picking up whatever it was that guy next to you on the plane had. Better yet, Emer-gen-C is packed with electrolytes, which your body loses steadily when you sweat, especially in hot places. Pouring a packet into you water bottle is an easy way to replenish your body’s reserves of these essential nutrients and stave off dehydration. As a bonus, it also comes in many flavors, which can be nice when your water tastes like warm plastic. I recommend the “tropical” variety.
10. Bach’s Rescue Remedy
Alright, so nobody really knows how flower essences work. It may all be in your head, but they are so effective, who cares? Bach’s, a British company, sells their popular blend of five flower essences called Rescue Remedy throughout the UK, parts of Europe, and specialty health stores in the US. Rescue Remedy is useful for just about everything. It helps you stay calm when dealing with long lines, customs officials, touts and layovers. It can ease the shock of transitions into a new culture, or back into your home one. They now have Rescue Remedy Sleep and Rescue Remedy Energy, which really should be called Rescue Remedy Travel because its been formulated to provide “relief for emotional fatigue brought on by stress or strain during times of personal difficulty”.
11. Neem (azadirachta indica) Powder
Considered a sacred plant in India, neem has dozens of uses, from acting as a natural air conditioner when placed in gardens to helping to keep your gums healthy. Neem powder may be difficult to find outside the subcontinent, but it’s worth a look at your local Asian grocery store if you can’t find it elsewhere. For travelers, neem is great for keeping those terrible pests of the night away. A natural insect repellent, you can sleep a little easier after sprinkling your sheets with the powder. It has a clean medicinal smell, though the odor can also deter some people from using it. Sprinkle some in your shoes to help ward off foot fungus as well.
This little spice packs a mighty aromatic punch, but clove oil’s real use is as a numbing agent. In dental emergencies, diluted clove oil can numb the gums, mouth, and teeth. It also may help keep tooth infections from spreading, as clove has anti-bacterial properties. Though its primary use is dental, clove oil can numb the skin as well and its aromatic properties can be reviving and motivating. Always dilute clove oil in water prior to application, and although it can be used in the mouth it should not be ingested.
13. Lavender (lavandula angustifolia) Oil
Have a headache, feeling low, need to chill out? Getting tired of the smell of exhaust/open sewer/ smoke/ fish? Lavender oil is easy to throw in your bag, and you can rub it on your temple, the pressure points on the inside of your wrists, and under your nose. Aromatherapy is a simple and effective way to help you maintain emotional balance while on the move. As a bonus, it can also deter some insects from biting you, though I wouldn’t substitute it for a mosquito repellent in a malarial area. If nothing else, you can always use it to disguise the fact that you haven’t been near a shower in over a week. Just remember never to ingest lavender oil: it is toxic in such a concentrated form.
14. Aloe Vera Gel
Getting sunburned sucks, especially when you have to carry a backpack on those peeling red shoulders. Rub some aloe vera on: it promotes healing and relieves that burning sensation. Your sunburn will ease into a tan faster.
The key to using herbal and alternative medicine while traveling is to be prepared. If you normally use a one ounce tincture bottle at home, bring two or four. Remember that some things are hard to find when you’re far from home. Knowing the Latin names of certain plants is a good practice to get into.
Lastly, know when you need something more conventional. Alternative medicine can be a fantastic way to prevent illness or treat more common ailments, but there’s no shame in going to the pharmacy if the alternatives aren’t working for you.
Garlic: garlic is an effective antibiotic.
You can take two small pieces of garlic,soaked overnight in cooled Milk in empty stomach to improve your boost your immune system.
Onions.Take Raw onions daily ( about a piece)
This builds up resistance.
Avoid taking these last two while taking Antibiotics as these two will nullify the effects of Antibiotics.
The modern sciences are engaged in researching the products and formula for anti aging property. Based on recent scientific findings, one of the techniques of anti-aging, for both women and men, is herbal treatment. The total blueprint of herbal anti aging treatment is in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine are called Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. According to this system, the secret to productive anti aging is to maintain Vata, Pitta, and Kapha in perfect equilibrium. Rasayana is an exceptional ayurvedic anti aging treatment. This method involves two faculties namely, kutipravesika and vatatapika. Kutipravesika attributes itself to restricting the person being treated in a tiny shelter with just one small door. The system also requires small holes instead of windows.
In Ayurvedic herbal treatment, anti aging means principally keeping up a healthy body into herbal treatment and bringing down the operation of aging, degeneration and depreciation. The objective of herbal anti-aging treatment is to aim for a healthy aging mode, and to maintain both mind and body working at optimum level, so the treasures of old age can be relished with peace of mind and vitality.
Amla(Emblica Officinalis): Amla is the best Rasayana as mentioned in the Charaka samhita. Amla is the magical herbs with the rich in Vitamin C. It is believed to have good rejuvenating power. The fruits of Amla is used to make the Chyawanprash (Herbal tonic) and best Rasayana. So daily intake of Amla and its products is good anti aging property.
Ginger Family: The rhizomes of the ginger family contain an array of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory ingredients. Ginger contains essential oils and spicy substances such as gingerol, shogaol, zingerone and capsaicin, all of which increase peripheral blood flow. It reduce cellular inflammation for anti-aging skin care benefits.
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) rhizomes contain curcumin and its derivatives (curcuminoids) that are bright yellow in color. Their hydrogenated derivatives, tetrahydrocurcuminoids, are nearly colorless materials. All of them possess antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity.
Galanga (Alpinia officinarum), also known as Galangal or Chinese ginger, contains essential oils, gingerols and a group of pungent substances, diarylheptanoids. Diarylheptanoids (and analogous phenyl alkyl ketones) possess excellent anti-arthritic properties due to their arrest of prostaglandin biosynthesis via inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase. Purified extracts of galanga, which are composed primarily of lower alkyl cinnamate esters, have UV absorbing, antioxidant and tyrosinase inhibiting properties.
Frankincense, Boswellia: Guggal (Boswellia serrata) has been used for centuries as an arthritis treatment. This biochemical mechanism provides a way to formulate skin anti-aging products via the incorporation of extracts or isolated pure compounds.
Clove Family: Clove oil and clove buds have applications as toothache and muscular pain remedies. A number of plants in this family, notably Syzygium aromaticum, Syzygium corynocarpum and Syzygium mallacense contain antioxidant and anti-inflammatory constituents.
Vitis: The grape family is well known for its potent antioxidant constituents, especially procyanidins, found mostly in seeds, and resveratrol, concentrated in skins of red and black grapes. suggests their application for skin anti-aging benefits.
Trace Metals: About 30 elements are recognized as essential to life. Some are required in macroscopic amounts in essentially all forms of life: H, Na, K, Mg, Ca, C, N, O, P, S and Cl. The others occur in trace or ultra-trace quantities. Fe, Cu and Zn are at the top end of this “trace” scale. The modulation of these metalloenzymes by appropriate trace metal topical therapies can lead to new skin anti-aging ingredients and their formulation methodologies.
Rosemary: It contains some of the most promising active agents, including rosmarinic acid, and diterpenes ursolic acid, carnosic acid, carnosol, oleanolic acid, hinokiol and seco-hinokiol, rofficerone, and amyrenones, which, due to their reported strong antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and tyrosinase inhibiting properties.
Licorice: Glycyrrhiza glabra contains some very exciting active agents Glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhetinic acid, glabrol, glabridins and various liquiritins are most interesting for skin care applications due to their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and skin color (melanin) reduction benefits.
Neem: Azadirachta indica has been recognized for its antibacterial, insecticidal, antimalarial, hypoglycemic, and would-healing benefits. Recent work has shown neem extracts to possess strong antioxidant and free radical scavenging properties.
Andrographis: Neoandrographolide, one of the principal diterpene lactones, isolated from a medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata actively inhibits suggests potential for skin anti-aging applications for both andrographolide and neoandrographolide.
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