Chai / Tea / How to reduce head-ache?

Recipe: From my Husband

Health Tip:

From Eenadu Telugu News Paper. Carbohydrates, Protein, Fiber, Calcium, Phosphorous, Iron percentage are high in Cardamoms. Cardamoms play a vital role in increasing the digestion.

Cardamom reduces the burning sensation in heart (acidity), Gastric problem.

Cardamom reduces the bad breath.

If you have a tea made with cardamoms when you have head-ache especially which comes because of indigestion, it provides you a relief.
Here is the way of making cardamom chai / tea.

This is to make a strong tea which my husband likes very much. If you want a light tea, just the measurements.

Ingredients:

• Water --- ½ cup
• Milk --- 1 cup
• Tea Powder --- 1 ½ tsp (It may vary from brand to brand. Mine is Brook Bond’s ‘Red Label’.)
• Sugar --- 1 ½ tsp
• Cardamoms --- 4 crushed
• Cardamom Powder --- a small pinch (optional)

Process:

• Take a steel vessel. Pour ½ cup of water to it. Add 1 ½ tsp of tea powder, 4 crushed cardamoms along with the shelves and a small pinch of cardamom powder.
• Bring it to a boil on medium-high heat. Let the water reduce to half of the quantity. This is nothing but decoction.

• Add a cup of milk to it.

• Again bring it to a boil.
• Now reduce the heat to medium and boil it for another 5 minutes so that the rest of the water also evaporates. But be careful at this stage. If the vessel is not big enough the milk may spill.
• Turn off the flame. Filter it with a tea filter. Add sugar as you need. Mix well with a spoon.
• Serve hot.

Ginger Chai/Tea:

If you want to make a ginger tea, just clean 2” piece of ginger nicely. Don’t peel the skin off. Take a knife and cut the ginger along with the skin into big pieces and add to the water in the beginning along with the tea powder and I add cardamoms at this time too.

Earlier I used to peel the skin and used to chop the ginger into tiny pieces and used to crush them and squeeze the liquid and used to add that stuff too. Still my husband used to tell still he didn’t get that ginger flavor.

Later I used to grate. Still he is not satisfied. But finally, this way which my sister-in-law told me has clicked. Among all, this is the easiest way and he is satisfying too!!!

Masala Tea:

I neither add ginger nor cardamom to make a masala tea. I use ‘tea masala’ powder which we got from ouside.

I make tea first. Just a minute before, to turn off the heat I add a pinch of this masala powder. That’s it.

Kitchen Tip:

If you make decoction first and add milk later, cleaning the tea vessel becomes easy. Try it out and let me know.

God's Pharmacy

One of my friends Sunitha has sent this mail to me. I was amazed to see the resemblance between all our fruits and vegetables to our parts of the body. I thought of sharing to my blog viewers too.





Thank you sooo much for forwarding such a nice mail to me.



God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!!!





God's Pharmacy!!! Amazing!!!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (mo dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoeslook like the pancreas and actual ly bal ance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just l ike the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.