Category: Traditional Remedies

Read various blogs on our ancient home remedies, folk remedies, granny’s tip. Learn more about traditional indigenous food ingredients and their health benefits.

Curry Leaves Kheer – A healthy morning drink

Curry Leaves Kheer

Ingredients:

  1. Two handsful of Curry Leaves
  2. 2 -3 medium size pieces of Coconut (Or a bit less than half a crown)
  3. 5 – 6 spoons of powdered Jaggery/Country Sugar (Depending on how sweet you want it)
  4. A bunch of Coriander Leaves
  5. A piece or two of Ginger
  6. 4-5 Elachi
Curry Leaves Kheer (you may additionally add a carrot or beetroot piece as well)

Method:

  1. In a blender or mixie, grind all the ingredients listed together
  2. For children, filter the liquid and separate the fiber out
  3. For adults, you may consume the juice as-is with the fiber if possible else you may filter the fiber out as well. Feed the pulp to your plants/compost.
  4. Your super healthy Curry leaves kheer is ready. Pour into a re-usable glass and enjoy the innumerable health benefits.

Few Health Benefits:

  1. Extremely good for your hair and scalp; Promotes hair growth and controls hair fall
  2. Helps increase digestive power and heals stomach ulcers
  3. Good for dealing with women health related problems
  4. The Kheer is also a complete nutritionally balanced drink – Curry leaves provide Iron, Magnesium, and Calcium, Jaggery provides Carbohydrates and Iron, Coriander helps balance the heat generated by Iron (compensating excess pitta), and Coconut acts a natural source of rich Protein, and Ginger helps increase digestive power.

 

Author: Vaijayanthi

Vaijayanthi is a freelance business writer and full-time gardener. She coaches people on adopting a chemical-free lifestyle through her initiative called the Kaustubam for Sustainable Living Practices. She also conducts various physical workshops and training sessions on sustainable living and Gardening for children in Bengaluru through the initiative The Happy Child.

Ragi sweet kozhukattai / sweet dumplings

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Ingredients:

Ragi flour – 1 cup
Grated coconut – 1/4 cup
Jaggery – 1/2 cup
Elachi powder – 1/2 tsp
Salt – 1/4 tsp
Oil – 1 tblspoon

Method:

Dry roast ragi flour for 2 to 3 minutes on medium flame and set it aside.
Take jaggery in a pan and add water to it.
Once jaggery is completely melted filter it.
Now pour this jaggery syrup in a pan and bring it to boil . Add salt and oil.Then add ragi flour, grated coconut, and elachi powder.
Mix everything well until the water is completely absorbed. Then switch off the flame. Let it cool for 5 mins.
Now take small ball from the dough and press them into dumplings with hands.
Steam the dumplings in idli cooker for 15 mins.

Preparing dumplings this way will take less time and can be prepared in 15 mins.

All types of millets flour can be used. One point is water should be added according to the millets used.

P.S: Stuffed dumplings recipe will be shared soon.Keep watching.

Author: Saranya

I’m HomeMaker and a mother of 1 year old baby girl. I have 6 yrs of IT experience with Accenture and IGATE and currently taken break to take care of my little one. I have an interest towards home made ancient recipes which is very healthy for kids and adults and hence started preparing all those at home and thought of sharing the same with all parents.

Foxtail/Thinai paniyaram (sweet pancakes)

thinai-paniyaram

Ingredients:
Foxtail millet/Thinai – 1/2 cup
Rice flour – 1 tablespoon
Wheat flour – 1 1/2 tablespoon
Jaggery – 1/2/cup powdered
Grated coconut – 1/4 cup
Salt – as required
Cardamom – 1
Ghee/oil to fry

Method:
Wash and soak the millet for 2 hrs.
Add it to a blender with very little water and grind it to a smooth paste.

Transfer it to a bowl and add powdered jaggery, rice flour, wheat flour, coconut, salt and powdered cardamom seeds.

Mix everything well and set aside for 15 mins. Heat the paniyaram pan, pour oil/ghee in each mould and pour the batter. Cook well. Flip and add more oil/ghee and cook till it turns golden brown.

Author: Saranya

I’m HomeMaker and a mother of 1 year old baby girl. I have 6 yrs of IT experience with Accenture and IGATE and currently taken break to take care of my little one. I have an interest towards home made ancient recipes which is very healthy for kids and adults and hence started preparing all those at home and thought of sharing the same with all parents.

Foxtail Millet/Thinai Halwa

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Ingredients:

Foxtail Millet – 1 cup
Milk – 2 cup
Palm sugar – 3/4 cup
Ghee – 5 tablespoon
Elachi powder – a pinch
Water

Method:
Wash and soak millet in water for 2 hours.

Add drained millet with little water to a mixer and blend it to a smooth batter. Keep it aside.
Take a pan add ghee and melt it.
Add the ground batter and cook on a medium flame. Keep stirring continuously.
Cook till it becomes crumble. It takes around 10 mins. Then add milk to the cooked mixture and keep on mashing it.
When the milk evaporates, add palm sugar and mix well.Cook till the halwa begins to leave the sides of the pan.Add little ghee and mix everything well.
Stir and mash the halwa well to get a smooth halwa.
Heat ghee in a pan add cashew kismis fry it till golden color and pour it over the halwa. Serve warm.

Author: Saranya

I’m HomeMaker and a mother of 1 year old baby girl. I have 6 yrs of IT experience with Accenture and IGATE and currently taken break to take care of my little one. I have an interest towards home made ancient recipes which is very healthy for kids and adults and hence started preparing all those at home and thought of sharing the same with all parents.

Foxtail millet/Thinai Pongal

thinai-pongal

Ingredients:

Thinai – 3/4 cup
Moong dal – 1/4 cup
Jaggery – 1/2 cup
Ghee
Cashew Nut and kismis
Elachi powder

Method:
Dry roast the moong dal till nice aroma comes out. Set it aside and allow it to cool.
Dry roast the foxtail millet for 5 mins and allow it to cool.
Mix both and wash it for 2 to 3 times.then soak it for 15 mins.
Take a cooker add this mixture and pour 31/2 cup water and cook for 1 whistle.
Simmer it for 10 mins.

Meanwhile take jaggery in a pan add water and melt it. Then strain it.

Open the cooker add the jaggery syrup and little ghee mix everything well.Add elachi powder too.

Heat ghee in a small pan. Add cashew nuts and kismis. Saute till it becomes golden color. Then add it to the cooked pongal and mix well.

Transfer it to a bowl and serve hot.

Author: Priyadarshini Somasundar

Priyadarshini is an Engineering graduate in Electronics and Communication. She used work for Dell, Later shifted to Chennai after marriage and worked in Ericsson as system analyst. I have always been passionate about our tradition and curious to know about our ancient wisdom and practices, which made me join this group.

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

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

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

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