Mango

Description
  The mango enjoy a unique status among the fruits, it is the most popular fruit in the tropics and is called the king of Asiatic fruit. It is regarded as a valuable item of diet and a house hold remedy. The mango is a fleshy drupe, variable in size and shape, with varying mixture of green, yellow and red colour. inside the fruit is a stony endocarp, variable in size. Mango grow on a large, erect, branch, evergreen tree. The leaves, when fully grown, are stiff , pointed and deep glossy green. These are use in ceremonial decorations. the dry twigs are use to light sacred fires. The worst type of mango are very fibrous with turpentine flavour, but the best are juicy, sweet, with very little fibre and a deliciously piquant flavour.

Rice

                                                        Botanical name : Orya sativa
Description
   Rice is much-revered oriental food and the most important tropical cereal. It is a staple food of about half the human race and often the main source of calories and the principal food of many million of people.
    Rice from which only husk has been removed. But layers of bran and most of the germ retained, is known brown rice. Rice from which husk, germ and  bran layers as almost been removed completely by power machinery is known as a milled rice.
     Rice milled to a high degree is known as White rice. Rice from which husk, germ and bran as been partially remove without the use of machinery is known as hand-pounded rice.
     Rice milled to a high degree and then coated with some foreign substance such as glucose or talcum is known as polished rice.  Paddy specially produced by steaming or soaking in water, then heated and dried, is called parboiled paddy. It can then be milled to various degree or home pounded. parboiled milled or parboiled home pounded.

Food value "Tomato"

Natural Benefit and Curative Properties
   The tomato is one of the most powerful deobstruents of the material medica. It remove diseases particle and open natural channel of the body, it is gentle natural stimulant for kidney and help to wash away the toxin which causes diseases and contaminate our system. They are at their best when they are fully ripe, their vitamin C content increase as they ripen.  Tomato juice is probably one of the most widely used juice. Fresh, raw tomato is most beneficial and has a alkaline reaction, when digested, in concentrate form. Tomato has an external application can be used as a cosmetic. Its pulp should be applied liberally on the face and left there for an hour and then wash with worm water. Repeated daily, it will give good complexion and remove ugly-looking pimple in a short time.

Tomato

Description
The tomato is one of the most important vegetable in most region in the world. Its short-lived perennial plant, has vigorous tap root, extensive fibrous roots, solid, hairy stems and spirally arranged, meanly oval leaves. The fruit is a fleshy, round or lobed, smooth or furrowed, red, pink or yellow berry with numerous flat, slightly curved seeds.
    The tomato originally has a small, wrinkle thick-skinned and seedy vegetable, much more smaller in shape and size and irregular in form. Many scientific method to bring it to its present shape and quality. It has now hundred of varieties. many of which are smoothly and globular, with almost solid pulp.

Barley

Description
Barley is the forth important cereal crop in the world, it is very nutritious and an excellent body-builder.
Barley resemble wheat in composition although it is less palatable. The barley grain, also called pearl barley, is prepare by removing the outer husk.

Origin and Distribution
Barley was the first cereal food to be domesticated in the middle east at 9,000 years and was probably the most important of the early cereals. Hulled barley was grown the ancient Egyptians. IT is now widely grown in Europe and region near the Sahara and the high plateau of Tibet. The world largest producer are Soviet Union, Germany, China and the United State.

Food Value
Barley is very nutritious and a rich source of protein and vitamin B-complex. Its protein content is superior to the protein of corn and beans.
    Most of the world's Barley is converted into malt. it is the most important cereal use in brewing of beer. Barley cannot be used for  leavened bread because of low gluten content. Its is more used in soup.
   Barley is also widely used as feed for live stock.

Good Health Practices

"Your food shall be your medicine" , said Hippocrates, father of medicine, several hundred years ago.

Never before has man and woman better fed and so poorly nourished. The progress of civilization has led to increase of population in the cities, metropolis and megalopolis. As a consequence man as become divorce from nature and its rich, beautiful bounty. Innumerable, time-assuring, preserved, refrigerated, treated, embalmed, processed, chemicalized and pasteurized food items are being promoted with all push and vigour for merely making them commercialized. Such food can never substitute wholesome natural food items.

Natural Cure #Orange

                                          Natural Benefit and Curative properties of Orange

Dyspepsia
The orange is an effective food remedy in chronic Dyspepsia it give rest to the digestive organs and supplies nutrition in a most assimilable form. It also stabilize the flow of digestive juice thereby, improving digestion and increasing appetite.  It create suitable condition for development of friendly bacteria  in the intestine.

Constipation
The orange is beneficial in the treatment of constipation. Taking one or two oranges at bed time and again on rising in the morning is an excellent way of stimulating the bowels action. The general stimulating influence of the orange juice excites peristaltic activity and helps prevent the accumulation of food residue in the colon, which leads to putrefaction and auto-intoxication.

Orange

Botanical name : Citrus aurantium 

Description

The orange in one of the finest gift of nature, It is the most popular wide-spread of the citrus fruits. It is very delicious and very nourishing fruit which is up to 12 cm, in diameter, though most common one are 6-8 cm, in diameter. The fruit grow on a every green tree, up to 12 m tall, with dark green leaves and fragrant flowers.

  They are many varieties of oranges. The more important ones are loose-skinned orange and sour orange, the loose-skinned orange is very popular in Britain and the tight-skinned are popular in the other part of Europe.

Importance of Fruit

Fruit are one of the oldest form of food known by man. in fact, Adam the first man ate an apple, " the forbidding fruit" of heaven. Their are many references to fruit in ancient literature. Vedas state that the fruit form the base of the food of Gods. According to the Quran, the fruit like Date, Grape, Fig, Olive and pomegranate are the gift and heavenly fruit of God.

Natural Cure

Potato:
Scurvy
The potato is regarded as an excellent food remedy in scurvy. It has been noted that scurvy in Europe has become more and more uncommon with the progress of potato cultivation and it make it appearance only when the crop fails. Dr. G.F. Still used "potato cream" curing cases of infantile scurvy, while Dr. A.F. Hess used ordinary mashed potato for the same purpose.

Rheumatism
Raw potato juice is regarded    as an excellent food remedy for rheumatism. one or two teaspoonful of the juice press out of mashed potato should be taken before meals. This will help eliminate an acid conditions and relive rheumatism. In some rural area in Great Britain, it is custom for rheumatic suffer to carry potato in their pockets, in believe that potato will absorb in itself  some of the acids in the sufferer's body. The old potato is thrown away and replace with another one after few days.
  The skin of the potato is also an excellent food remedy for  rheumatism. The skin is exceptionally rich in vitamins and minerals salt and the water in which the peeling have been boiled is one of the best medicine for the ailment cause by excess of acids in the system. The potato peeling should be thoroughly washed and boil for few minutes. The decoration should then by strained and glassful of the same should be taken three or four times daily.