Homemade Recipe For Lactating Mothers

Learn the ancient technique to increase lactations from ingredients available in kitchen.

On the occasion of breastfeeding week, I am happy to share an age old recipe taught by ancestors.

Ingredients

Adi maduram ( licorice) 10 gms
Ajwain 1 cup
Chitirattai (lesser galangal / kulanjan / blue ginger) 15 gms
Cloves 15 gms
Dal chinni 15 gms
Dry ginger 200 gms
Elachi 15 gms
Ghee 300 gms
Hing 10 gms
Honey 100 gms
Javitri (mace) 10 gms
Jaiphal 1 small piece
Jeera 15 gms
Khus khus 15 gms
Mustard seeds 15 gms
Palm jaggery – ¾ kg
Pepper 15 gms
Saboot dhaniya 25 gms
Tippili (long pepper) 50 gms
Turmeric 10 gms
Val milage (cubeb / kabab chinni) 15 gms

Method

Dry roast all the ingredients separately and allow it to cool
Then grind it into a powder. I make in chakki
Then seive it so that the powder is evenly mixed
In a khadai add half liter of water and add the palm jaggery
Boil it till the jaggery is fully melted
Then strain it twice to take out the impurities
Wash the khadai and put the strained jaggery syrup in it and allow it to boil for five minutes
Add ghee and once the ghee starts melting, add the powder little by little and mix it, stirring continuously. Keep the flame low.
Now mix it nicely till all the lumps is gone and cook for ten minutes
Now add little ghee again if necessary.
You can see one shine in the ready mixture.
It should be in pouring consistency.
Now add honey and mix well.
Switch off the gas
Transfer the ready mix in a steel container and allow it to cool down
Once its cold it will becomes little thick

Lactating mothers should have twice a day along with hot milk.
It helps in increasing the milk supply and also helps in digestion.

Author: Lakshmi Bharadwaj

Lakshmi Bharadwaj, known as OJAS in whatsapp group, is a home-maker and mother of three lovely kids. She comes with a rich tradition that follows home-remedies, which makes her a passionate towards ancient knowledge in Ayurveda naturopathy and herbs. She is one of the sincere and senior member of swarnaprashana Whatsapp parenting community. She has been constantly guiding new parents and with her continuous selfless efforts on various social and educative platforms. In 2015, She was the Parent of the month for her exceptional guidance in home-remedies to many parents in our whatsapp community. View all posts by Lakshmi Bharadwaj

War Against White Food

Thanks for amazing response about the reviving food we eat. Now, we are aware of the fact that, we just need 20% of food (including water) twice a day to stay healthy. Let us explore further…

Today, we are bombarded with plenty of artificial and chemically processed food. It is a great myth that, healthy food is not in market or expensive, such as organic or natural farming food. With this false assumption, people consume processed food or fall victim to marketing campaign. They hardly know a fact that, they are opening doors towards non-communicable disease such as, diabetes, heart attack, cancer and so on.

Now, Rather than getting to the various food that is good to eat, let us explore the food, that we should completely avoid. The reason is, it does not makes sense to eat the good food, and we also consume the food that is harming us. It is like taking pure milk and a drop of poison.

Many parents in our whatsapp group constantly ask, what are the remedies to regain or live a healthy lifestyle. The answer is not found in those rare or expensive food, but rather avoiding certain food, does the magic. You will be surprised to see there are plenty of food options that is econimical and healthy.

To lead a holistic healthy lifestyle, we need to avoid 5 white food ingredients. They are:

Refined Sugar – Replace with Palm Jaggery, Brown Sugar
Table Salt – Replace with Rock salt and Pink Salt
Milk – Sukku Malli Water or coconut milk.
Polished Rice / – Unpolished, traditional Rice. Say no to hybrid rice.
Maida – There is no replacement for this, you can use Millets powder to some extent.

Just by switching these simple five elements, you will notice tremendous health benefits in short time. It is very important, to adopt these lifestyle changes ASAP, to our children. It is a big topic to discuss on each “White” items which I will blog later…

We got this wisdom from members in our group who has dedicated his life to revive ancient food of India. In case if you like to switch to a healthy lifestyle, do check here and encourage them.

Author: Velu Jayaprakash

Velu Jayaprakash is a social entrepreneur, product manager, techy, photographer, meditator, father of two angels, ancient wisdom seeker, holistic adviser and Soul coach. You can reach him at velu.jayaprakash AT gmail DOT com View all posts by Velu Jayaprakash

Newsletter July, 2016

The parenting community with roots in holistic living has witnessed organic shaping into a versatile multifaceted platform with all the wonderful and priceless contribution and participation of passionate parents. We are extremely delighted to share our growth with each of you. This newsletter is a sneak peek into our journey. Looking forward for many such self sustained milestones!!

Small acts when multiplied by millions of people can transform the world – Howard Zinn

Swarnaprashana is a collective of parents with a dynamic platform for holistic living and approaches. The group’s aspirations are central to authentic holistic practices and revival of ancient wisdom to this time of living. It calls for an efficient integration of these principles into daily lives across the country.

It is amazing to see how a simple parenting community, connected virtually, can contribute so much in their free time.

This season has been amazing and alive with new learnings , Webinars , Meetups , launch of new Indigenous spin offs, growing into new groups and many more parents joining the Whatsapp community and into core team sharing their knowledge and expertise and the ripple effect continues…

SPOTLIGHTS

Swarnaprashana Sangam
Swarnaprashana logo on Packaging kit
Subhashithas by Roopa
Touch Therapy by Anandji
Webinars : Immunity redefined (Uploaded YouTube version )
Dinacharya by Velu Jayaprakash
Specialised yoga with Yogacharya by Sri.B.Shankaranarayana Shastri
Stargazing with Shiva
Ancient Indigenous produce
Homepreneurs time-honored remedies
Sanjeevani holistic group ( a dedicated blessings platform )

First Parenting – MEETUPS

Swarnaprashana SANGAM witnessed coming together of parents and whole team of swarnaprashana together for the first time for two interesting talks on ancient wisdom and how this group evolved from inception to the present stage by Velu Jayaprakash. He exuberantly unlocked the science behind the ancient practices and traditional home remedies while Manikandan gave a wise talk on Ancient food and passionate revival of the rice and millet varieties. Watch Video

Stargazing

Shiva, a passionate life coach, helped many embark on an ancient practice of Stargazing, Tree Hugging, Gamification of ancient lifestyle. He gave a glimpse on healing trees as per your birth nakshatra. Read more about this here.

A must read: Cosmic healing with birth stars and trees.

Swarnapashana kit gets an upgrade.

When community joined hands, various parents from the whatsapp group stepped outside the virtual world and explored various ways to upgrade the packing. From July, the swp is now shipped in the form of storage vials that is leak proof. Tamper Proof Packaging with branding is worth mentioning.

WEBINARS

Immunity Redefined

First webinar by our parenting community where knowledge sharing desk was decked by healer and acupuncture expert Healer Anand , Ayurveda specialist Dr.lakshmy , Homeopath Dr. sheetal and holistic advisor Mr.Velu Jayaprakash. The same has been uploaded on YouTube. Watch the video here.

Dinacharya

A webinar by Velu jayaprakash. A streamlined smooth transition from Bramhamuhurtham to Rathricharya where the best daily practices and procedures that is advocated by Ayurveda and siddhas which can be followed by one and all were revealed. Video will be uploaded later.

Specialized Yoga with Yogacharya Sri. B. Shankaranarayana Shastri

It was indeed a great privilege to air the latest webinar featuring Yogacharya Sri.B.Shankaranarayana Shastri. It is a humbling experience to have Yoga specialist among us with over 50 years of experience. Special thanks to Roopa of Subhashita fame, a parent from our core team for roping in such an eminent personality.

Ancient Indigenous Food of India

HLP Store provides the best from natures basket with ancient rice, millet varieties, and various organic supplies along with coldpressed oils, pure desi ghee and other ancient products. The new entrees are Kichali Samba (replacement for regular rice), and Purest world-famous Udankudi palmsugar and palm jaggery.

Parents contribution has scaled up by providing the best and rare HONEY varieties like Jamun honey, Chestnut honey, Himalayan honey by Velu, who collects honey from various sources as a hobby.

ParentPreneurs Krithika, Srinandhini and Ojas home-made remedies are on the shelf with raving reviews. And lot more parents are in the line to share their age old home remedies that are learnt from their grandmothers and other elders. We never knew this will be a platform for sharing the home remedy supplies made by parents with love to others.

A moment of pride was when Vaccha Band was launched literally in a span of few hours. A parent shares how Vaccha band is a life saviour for kids, a few share their experiences and a parent comes forward to provide it to all of our parent community. Within few hours, everything is conceptualized and implemented…rest is history.

Subhashitha

YouTube is blessed with Subhashithas by Roopa, a parent from our core team who offers her knowledge selflessly with a melodious voice narrating the fables and explaining the Subhashithas. They are epigrammatic poems and their message is an aphorism, maxim, advice, fact, truth, riddle. Long-lived practices came to life again in lives of our kids.

Indian Classical Acupuncture popularly known as Touch Therapy

We are blessed to have Anandhji in our group who has come up to offer his free time to conduct a weekly webcast on “Mind-Body Wisdom, Path to Well-being” Watch the video here.

Events

Touch Therapy Session for Bangalore parents.

Anandhji practices Indian Classical Acupuncture popularly known as Touch Therapy every 1st and 3rd Saturdays at Indira Nagar, Bangalore. You can reach him with prior appointment.

Satkriya Foundation

Satkriya foundation has organised a fundraising event, Satswara by Sri Shivaranjivi, for and by a group of Visually challenged people. Few parents partially contributed to this event. We were happy to take part in this initiative. Do follow their page for participation in future activities.

In Media

NEWSBYTES – It was a day filled with pride as newsbytes has covered Swarnaprashana helping Greenhands.in. Agricultural sector with a share of 10% in nation’s export can be a fertile field for innovative startups.

newsbites media cover While all these are rolling, the whatsapp community has grown big and two new groups namely Chandan group and Amla group are revived to join our Bramhi Holistic group and Aloevera Holistic group. Each group is named after a herb. To maintain the objective of the group and yet sail through the ebb and flow of the lives of our parents, Sanjeevani group is created as a dedicated group for blessings and prayers. With interesting posts and discussions on spirituality and enlightment.

Whatsapp – Important Discussions

Naming with sounds not with letters
Stem cell and ancient umbilical cord preservation
How we can sync with nature
Ekadesi significance
Chaturmas..seasonal foods
Thirumaloor’s Thirumandhiram.
Storing ghee for years for medicinal usage
Real truth about cholesterol, gluten sensitivities and myths
Chandranamaskar
Various Goshala products and importance of Ghee
Panchagavya treatment
Ancient practices on Vibudhi and its significance
Ecofriendly products and practices, terrace gardening
Alternate therapies n treatments
Schools and holistic education
Parenting

The beauty of this parent community is felt when many parents respond in wee hours, pray n follow up too. What better way to use this platform.

Screening through these talks n concerns, many blogs have been added in areas of Health¸Healing, long lived traditional remedies and recipes, Parenting.

In case, if you are not part of this amazing group. Do join us here.

Recent Blogs

Ashtavarga Chywanprash
Ancient way to test the Mother’s milk
Dos and Donts during Summer, Grishmaritu
Garbhinicharya paricharya – The ancient art of Conceiving, pregnancy and Post delivery
liquid food madness
Tharpanam/ Tilodakam
Reviving the food we eat
Black rice idli
Ancient ways to cleanse colon safely
Vaccha bracelet
Art of Parenting
Parenting workshops
Specialized yoga with Yogacharya Sri.B.Shankaranarayana Shastri
5 simple home remedies to arrest Vomiting
Remedies for cough with simple herbs
Indian classical Acupuncture (TOUCH THERAPY)
Subhashitas
Cosmic healing with Birth stars and trees
7 amazing benefits of clapping

Wrapping up this season here, we venture into more learnings and growing together as a parenting community. We the swarnaprashana team, sincerely thank each and every member who are part of this new momentum of HOLISTIC LIVING.

Miles to go before we sleep…the journey continues…

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Meet the like minded parents to learn and share the ancient wisdom.

Our NGO partner

Thanks to all those lovely parents who generously contributed swarna prashan for kids at Kritagyata

Our Organic Partner

A dedicated group that is fostered by parents to revive the ancient food of India back to life.

Author: yamini

I am Yamini, a Science and Education graduate, currently a work from home Mom as Subject Matter Expert - SME at e- learning solutions. Being a learner at heart in a voyage of self discovery for me, Motherhood is a calling and Parenting my passion. Belief in sharing and giving is my faith. Exercising the same faith, would blog on topics of interest like Parenting and education to learn, reflect and grow together. You can teach me at yamini2523 AT gmail DOT com. View all posts by yamini

Immunity Flattened Rice (Aval) – Sweet version

Ingredients

Immunity Aval_1cup
Grated coconut_ 2 Tblspoons
Cardamom powder_ 1pinch
Jaggery powder_2 tbl spoon

Instructions

Wash the Aval once, just to clean it.
Then soak it in warm water for 10 to 15 mins.
Add pinch of salt,powdered jaggery,cardamom powder and grated coconut.

Healthy Sweet Snack is ready to feast our kids coming from the school.

Immunity Aval can be substituted with other Aval varieties like Black rice(Karuppu Kavuni), Diabetic/Arthirites ( Kattuyanam), Normal Aval or Poha

Thanks to Seethalakshmi (a parent from our group) for sharing the recipe.

Author: Seetha Lakshmi

I'm a homemaker and a mother of 7yrs old son.I strongly believe in Thirumoolar's word"Food is medicine". My quest regarding ancient food recipes started a year back. I'm very happy to share and learn through this initiative from Swarna prashana. View all posts by Seetha Lakshmi

Subhashita #7 – Kayana Vaacha

कायेन वाचा मनसेन्द्रियैर्वा
बुद्ध्यात्मना वा प्रकृतेः स्वभावात् ।
करोमि यद्यत्सकलं परस्मै
गुरुवरायेति समर्पयामि ॥

Kaayena Vaacaa Manase[a-I]ndriyairvaa
Buddhy[i]-Aatmanaa Vaa Prakrteh Svabhaavaat |
Karomi Yad-Yat-Sakalam Parasmai
Guru-Varaayeti Samarpayaami ||

Meaning:
1: (Whatever I do) with my Body, Speech, Mind or Sense Organs,
2: (Whatever I do) using my Intellect, Feelings of Heart or (unconsciously) through the natural tendencies of my Mind,
3: Whatever I do, I do all for others (i.e. without the sense of attachment to the results),
4: (And) I Surrender them all at the Lotus Feet of the Supreme Guru.

Author: Roopa

By Roopa Prasanna I am a homemaker with two kids a son and a daughter aged 9 and 6 yrs respectively. I love telling stories to my kids. It has helped them to grow up better and they are more relaxed at the end of the day. My other hobbies are listening to music and reading. I have always believed our ancient wisdom holds the key to many of our questions. You can reach me at roopa.hebbar AT gmail.com View all posts by Roopa

Indriya Nigraha – A journey towards spiritual path.

We have ears, tongue and eyes among gnanendriyas, the most powerful knowledge providers, at the same time, we do not know how to use it, then we are opening doors for internal disturbances.

We should not listen through “EARS”, which is not related to us or for which we are neither responsible nor answerable. Unnecessary inflow of information from this indriya generates unwarranted garbage in our astral body. This should therefore be controlled.

Next gnanendriya is “TONGUE”. Through this we become slave to taste and take unnecessary food. This in one way results in indigestion and also other diseases like diabetics. So we should have control on tongue.

Next powerful and dangerous gnanendriya is “EYES”. No doubt through this indriya we see world around us, but we also see unwanted items and create unwarranted desires. So friends eyes, tongue and ear are most dangerous gnanendriyas which require control.

Now there is another karmendriya which is also equally dangerous. It is speech generated through tongue. Through “TALK” we either to good deeds or bad deeds. So we should be careful with this karmendriya also.

We have a commander-in-chief of indriyas. He is “MIND” . If one can control this, he can even become Almighty. Entire spiritual practices are basically aimed at controlling mind. People generally think that “indriya nigraha” (control of indriyas) is important sadhana. But it is not so. What is required is realisation oriented attitude towards subject matter of indriyas.

In Bhagavad Geeta in second chapter, Lord emphasized that any interest on subject matter of five elements (sound, touch, form, taste and smell are subject matters) converts interest as desire. If desire is fulfilled then thought for repetition is generated. If desire is not fulfilled angry will raise. With angry, person looses senses and losses control on himself. So realization oriented knowledge referred above should help us in removing interest on subject matter of five elements. To do this, we should divert our interest on some better aspects. Like doing “NAMA SMARANA ” or uttering “MANTRA” or doing meditation. Let our sadhana start on any of these points.
Pranamams.

Author: Lakshmi Bharadwaj

Remedies for Cough with simple herbs.

Learn the ancient ways to cure and prevent cough.

Root of Athimathuram, by KoS – Own work, Public Domain,

There are various way to cure Cough. At our whatsapp group, we have plenty of parents sharing their age old home remedies to each other. We have made an attempt to collect all those and share it for anyone. Apart from the information we share from our group, We have gone little deeper into ancient siddha, ayurveda and unai script and shared few remedies.

When you try these do share your feedback and or if you have any more tips so share it at comments.

Continue reading “Remedies for Cough with simple herbs.”

Author: Velu Jayaprakash

5 Simple home remedies to arrest Vomiting

By SriniG - Photograph taken by SriniG, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1026082 — By SriniG – Photograph taken by SriniG, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1026082

There are various way to arrest vomiting. At our whatsapp group, we have plenty of parents sharing their age old home remedies to each other. We have made an attempt to collect all those and share it for anyone. Apart from the information we share from our group, We have gone little deeper into ancient siddha script and shared few remedies.

When you try these do share your feedback and or if you have any more tips so share it at our comments.

Continue reading “5 Simple home remedies to arrest Vomiting”

Author: Velu Jayaprakash

Home Remedies To Cure Indigestion Problems

There are various way to cure Bronchitis. At our whatsapp group, we have plenty of parents sharing their age old home remedies to each other. We have made an attempt to collect all those and share it for anyone. Apart from the information we share from our group, We have gone little deeper into ancient siddha, ayurveda and unani script and shared few remedies.

When you try these do share your feedback and or if you have any more tips so share it at comments.

Carom seeds (Ajwain) one tsp + Black salt taken with hot water
Drinking salted Buttermilk everyday helps to reduce indigestion
Eating a piece of Ginger after every meals helps to prevent indigestion problem
Lemon juice with Black salt taken with Luck warm water also helps to cure indigestion problem
Using Garlic or Asafoetida (Hing) meals also helps to to reduce indigestion
Eating a Banana after every meals helps to overcome indigestion problem
Eating White grapes regularly helps to overcome indigestion problem
Eating papaya (papita) everyday also helps to improve digestion and prevents indigestion problems
Eating Radish with Salt and Black pepper (kali mirch) along with meals also helps in curing indigestion problem.
Equal quantities of Cinnamon (Dalchini), Dry Ginger ( Sonth), Cardamom (Elaichi) powdered, Eating a pinch of this powder helps in curing indigestion.
Eating Orange with Black salt after meals helps to get relief from indigestion problem.
When you are facing indigestion due to drinking plain milk, add a Long pepper (pipple) or Ginger piece (Adrak) or few Cumin seeds (Jeera) while boiling milk.er, sardamom,
Drinking Mint (Pudina) juice with Honey every morning helps to overcome indigestion problem.
Eating Drumstick (Muranka Bhaji) in any form helps to reduce indigestion problem.
Drinking a spoon of Honey helps to reduce indigestion.
Makoi leaves and fruits are very good for digestion. Eat them regularly to overcome indigestion problem.
Brinjal (Baingan) especially long one is good for curing indigestion problem.
Eating a Gooseberry (Amla) everyday helps to prevent indigestion problem.

Vaccha bracelet

Learn the age old practice from our ancestors to protect infants from various illness.

IMG_20160620_204026 Today was an unusual day. At whatsapp, I shared Vaccha Bracelet to let parents know about this life saving herb for just born kids. In short time, say less than 6 hours, the parenting community jumped in and we ended up launching a product.

Vaccha, or popularly known as Vasambu in Tamil or sweet flag (English name) is one of the nine sacred herbs along with honey and gold ash that was administered to children in ancient times. In Siddha text, they call it as, “Pillai marunthu” means Pediatric medicine.

In olden days, after 11th to 16th day naming ceremony, they tie this bracelet in babies both hands. Along with this, they also, tie a special rope around neck and hip, which we will blog later. In olden days, a gold string was beaten with vaccha. Daily mother would rub this vaccha gold stick on a sandalwood base and take the paste and apply a mark on babies top of the head, palm, and feet. Those are the osmotic areas. Our body absorbs the properties of the paste. This is practiced in some parts of Kerala even now.

IMG_20160624_150000 They tie this bracelet as a natural insecticide. When kids lick it, a small amount of medicine is taken into the body to protect it. This is an amazing herb that is known for its preventive and curative actions.

There is no age limit to use it, usually it can be used till the age of 5 and more. As kids at this age won’t lick their fingers.

This is also one form of swarnaprashana called as Swarnavaccha, popularly sold in many ayurvedic shops. In case, if you are following swarnaprashana, Vaccha is already in the suvarnaprashan that your doctor has provided. In that case, you do not have to follow Swarnavaccha.

In olden days, they even used to make kajal out of it to apply on forehead, top of palm, foot of the child to protect from evil eyes. Since these areas are osmotic areas, it helps them from filtering impurities to get into the body. (imagine like the water filter using carbon to filter water) It is just not about the evil eyes, it has medical and spiritual reasons too. This improves their sleep and keep the mind calm for epilepsy kids.

Siddha and Ayurveda texts provides list of various benefits. To mention a few:

Epilepsy – Vasambu powder + honey. With only mother milk as main diet, this is effective
Indigestion or gas or diarrhoea – powder of Ink Nut + Long pepper + pepper + dry ginger + Vaccha + Asafoetida + Indian Atees
Cold or fever or pain in abdomen – Vaccha + Liquorice

Its root has even higher benefits. To mention few:

Strong Nervous system – Vaccha root is taken in less quantity.
Gas – root of vaccha is burnt and its ash is mixed with coconut oil and applied below the navel.
Vaccha in general helps in proper brain development, speech ability, eyesight. It also acts as neutralizer to toxins in the body.

It is very easy to make one by yourself.

Start on a Pushya, Anuradha, Kettai Nakshatra day. Soak the vaccha up to 8 hours
Clean the skin
Cut it into small beads
With long needle use cotton thread and make it like a bracelet

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Some make with gold and precious stones. It is not a must. But if you can, nothing wrong as long as the stones, gold are pure and craftsmanship is good, so that it does not cut or prick the skin of the baby, then it is good. There is a parent in our group, who is a retail jeweller. In case if you like to touch base with him. Do ping him in our whatsapp group directly. Below is the sample he uses it for kids.