Mint: A Natural Remedy for Summer Ailments
Mint is most commonly used during the summer season. It provides relief from stomach heat. Mint is not only useful as a food but also as a medicine. Its vitamins and minerals further enhance its medicinal properties.
- Drinking mint sherbet or lemonade can help prevent summer diseases.
- Mint increases the body’s immunity and is also beneficial for skin-related diseases like dryness, eczema, acne, and itching.
- Taking one teaspoon of mint juice with a cup of water can help prevent diarrhoea.
- Mixing one teaspoon of mint juice, one teaspoon of lemon juice, black pepper powder, and a pinch of rock salt and drinking it can help stop vomiting.
- Grind 20 green mint leaves, 5 grams of cumin seeds, a little asafoetida, 10 black peppercorns, and a pinch of salt into a chutney. Then boil it in a glass of water. When the water is reduced to half a glass, strain it and drink it. This can relieve indigestion and many stomach disorders.
- Grinding mint and applying it to the place where poisonous creatures like scorpions and bees have stung can provide relief.
- Grind 6 grams of mint, strain it, and mix it with 100 grams of lime water. Rubbing this mixture on your feet for a few days can help reduce swelling in the veins of the feet.
