Benefits of Haldi

"Haldi" the name should sound strange for many of you. But our country people finds it as a quite popular word being used in every household. "Haldi "meaning 'Turmeric". A commonly found product in every kitchen.

Peoples prefer to grow turmeric in their own garden. So that they get pest free turmeric from their own garden. Now if I had to talk about planting Turmeric - get this in lump some and soak it in water overnight. To make the bed for growing Turmeric first dig a little deep pit and put into it some dry leaves, dry cowdung and other manures which are available in your place and finally close them with mud. It is a good compost. After two days you can put the overnight soaked turmeric into the mud in a straight line or as you wish. Once completed cover it with more mud above the ground level. It has to be atleast 2 cm above the ground level. It has to be in the form of a raised platform. This part is very important.

Turmeric is called as Manjal or Kasturi Manjal in South India.

Switching on to the benefits. It is too good for sore throats. Just add half a tea spoon of turmeric powder into one glass of boiling water and make it to 3/4th and gargle by adding a little salt. This should be done early in the morning and in the evening before going to bed. You will get a good relief and pain will be relieved within two days.

Some peoples add half a spoon of turmeric to the boiling milk and drink it every night to avoid cough. If starting this process from a very young age, you can avoid medication life long for cold and cough. I know peoples carrying out this tradition until now.

Turmeric is one of the main spices in Indian foods without which the food is incomplete.

Another herbal product for improving your beauty related to glowing skin. Grind to powder, a piece of turmeric and make it a paste by adding little amount of water and apply in your face and hands just 10 minutes before going to bath. You definitely will get a glowing skin. But remember it should be done weekly once and probably on week days because the colour stick on to your face for atleast 2 days. It is better to use turmeric grown from our own garden for this purpose.

Lastly to remove pimple marks, take some turmeric and neem leaf sprouts and grind it to paste and apply it in the area where pimples have left marks. The marks will be vanished, but it will take atleast two weeks time. So be patient as this was my own experience while studying in college.

For safety purpose this turmeric powder is applied to areas in our body resulting in poison bites. This I heard people's saying because turmeric has strong medicinal effect.

I think, to the best of my knowledge, I have given you enough information about home grown turmeric.