Ajwain or vaamu lehyam -an excellent recipe for indigestion

Hindi-Ajwain

English-Thymol seeds,carom seeds

Tamil:Omam

Telugu:Vaamu

Malayalam:ayamodagam

Sanskrit:ajamodika.

 The recipe is similar to Kasyapa Lehyam as mentioned in this post

http://simpleayurvedichealthtips.blogspot.com/2010/10/simple-recipe-for-indigestion-problems.html

Ingredients needed

Ajwain -100 gms

Cow's ghee-100gm

Mishri-Rock candy sugar-100 gm

Powder the rock sugar.

Melt the ghee.

Dry roast the ajwain and powder well and sieve.Mix the powders and add the ghee.

The mixture sets into a lehyam.Store in a glass jar.

Eating one spoon of this lehyam an hour before dinner cures most of the stomach problems.It decreases flatulence,eliminates all kinds of gas problems .Children may be given a little more than half a spoon.

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A very simple way to prevent kapha based disorders...

Dry roast 100 gmof dry Ginger /sont/sonti/chukku and powder it.Mix equal quantity of old Jaggery to it and grind it to a thick paste and store in a glass jar.
Take 5 gm of this mixture and tuck it in the cheek and swallow the juice slowly till the paste dissolves.This should be done twice a day after food.Children may be give 2 gm.
This will ensure a good kapha balance in the body and reduces cough,cold,constipation problem,indigestion,gas,acidity problems and many other kapha based disorders and also decreases pains due to vata disorders.
--As told by Panditha Elchuri.

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For eliminating gas problems

Chew 3 pinches of ajwain/thymol seeds/vaamu/omam with the same amount of black salt and drink warm water.Belching and gas problem is solved.
Photo Source:wikimedia Commons,author:Sanjay Acharya.

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