{"id":35,"date":"2007-07-25T06:32:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T13:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/beauty\/turmeric-is-good-for-you\/"},"modified":"2007-07-25T11:52:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T18:52:33","slug":"turmeric-is-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/turmeric-is-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Turmeric is good for you"},"content":{"rendered":"

To make your skin sexy smooth<\/u>:
<\/strong>Mix with besan and milk to make a paste
Turmeric makes a great body scrub, which is why desi brides have a haldi ceremony before their wedding.
A mix of haldi and besan leaves your skin soft, smooth and glowing.
Don\u2019t expect miracles in a single application, though. Make it a weekly routine.<\/p>\n

To help you digest food faster<\/u>:
<\/strong>Add liberally to your food.
Food cooked with turmeric is digested easily, since haldi helps improve the secretion of digestive juices.
It\u2019s also a great disinfectant, which is why we marinate raw fish and meat with haldi before cooking.<\/p>\n

To stop bleeding<\/u>:
<\/strong>Dab a pinch of it on cut. It\u2019s almost miraculous how easily and quickly haldi can stop heavy bleeding.
Before you run for that ointment or bandage, wash the wound under running water, and press a pinch of turmeric on the cut. It will stop the bleeding immediately. Being haemostatic in nature, it stops bleeding.
Haldi helps blood clot faster, thus controlling its flow. When used as a local applicant as part of emergency first aid, its antiseptic properties help wounds heal faster.<\/p>\n

To clear your skin of spots<\/u>:
<\/strong>Apply haldi and lime juice
If your face is plagued with pigmentation and spots, here\u2019s how you can even out your skin colour.
Apply a little turmeric mixed with cucumber juice or lemon, to the affected area. Leave on for 15 minutes, and wash off. Do this every day.<\/p>\n

To clear sore throat<\/u>:
<\/strong>Drink with milk. Add half a tsp of fresh turmeric powder to 30 ml warm milk and drink once or twice daily, in case of sore throat.
It\u2019s a great antiseptic drink that will kill germs and prevent inflammation of the throat.<\/p>\n

To soothe rheumatoid arthritis<\/u>:
<\/strong>Add liberally to food
Turmeric has been used historically to treat rheumatic conditions.
And according to animal research, it may reduce inflammation. <\/p>\n

To prevent gall bladder stones<\/u>:
<\/strong>Add to food
It has been found that few people in India have gallstones, this is sometimes credited to turmeric in our diet.
Early animal studies report that curcumin, a chemical in turmeric, may decrease the occurrence of gallstones. Limited human research suggests that curcumin may stimulate squeezing (contraction) of the gall bladder and stimulate bile flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To make your skin sexy smooth:Mix with besan and milk to make a pasteTurmeric makes a great body scrub, which is why desi brides have a haldi ceremony before their wedding. A mix of haldi and besan leaves your skin soft, smooth and glowing. Don\u2019t expect miracles in a single application, though. Make it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetalsethi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}