Kashaya: A Boon to Health

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How many of you start your day with a cup of tea or coffee? Almost everyone, with few exceptions of course!!

Indian culture has wisely merged medicines in daily culinary practices. In this pandemic many ayurvedic immunity booster drinks (kashaya) are available in the market. Many people are consuming these kashayas without proper knowledge of ingredients. If you check these ingredients, you will find many of them are ushna gunatmak (hot in nature). So it cannot be consumed continuously for a long time. People with complaints like hyperacidity, piles, fissure or ulcers should consume these kashayas after consulting an expert as it may aggravate their problems.

Coming back to the point, let’s find out what has been advised by our elders to maintain good health and boost immunity, not only during any epidemic or pandemic but all the time.

You guessed it right. It’s from our kitchen again….our spices have already proved their worth worldwide. Though metro cities have adopted very different lifestyle, small cities and villages in India still follow old way of life. Here a kashaya is prepared with very simple and easily available spices in the kitchen to start a day. It’s very tasty and it takes only few minutes to prepare.

The ingredients are –

• Coriander seeds
• Cumin seeds
• Dried ginger (shunthi)
• Black pepper &
• Rock sugar (mishri)

Prepare kashaya with these ingredients and milk.

Here are the details of their nutritional and medicinal value:

Now you can understand why our elders used to start a day with this kashaya.

This kashaya is a healthy drink as well as an immunity booster. It prevents many diseases & also keeps us energized. if you read the detail information of these ingredients mentioned above you will come to know that all of them are full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Regular consumption can reduce the need of additional suppliments we take now a days, provided herbs used are of good quality.

So enjoy a cup of kashaya everyday. Other variants of kashaya are also available depending on the location and disease present. But this one is the best for all age groups except infants. This kashaya powder made using authentic ingredients by Dr Aditi is available at poornayurved.com. For any other queries or to check the availability of the kashaya contact Dr Aditi at poornayurved.com.