Greens are miraculous panaceas that nourish our bodies and keep us alive. Realizing this, our forefathers have said that there is no food equal to spinach. Although we use many different types of greens, there are also lesser known types of greens in practice.
Very few know its uses and include it in their diet. One such vegetable is spinach. Celosia (Celosia argentea) is a plant that grows mostly in fields. There are many ways to do this. That is, there are many types of small farm, narum farm, grass farm, funnel farm etc.
Among these, except Narum farm, others belong to the same species. Same in quality and reaction. Farm spinach is available under many names like Peacock Spinach, Makhizhi Spinach, Maulik Spinach, Masilik Spinach.
This herb acts as an astringent and laxative and is rich in beta-carotene. Rich in vitamin E, folic acid, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron etc. It contains 4.7 percent protein and is rich in chemicals like amaranth, oxalic acid and phytic acid.
Benefits of spinach Agathiyar says the following in his book Gunavakadam. Relieves lethargy, cough, dysentery, urinary tract disease, constipation, rash, scabies, scabies, boils, sores etc. It softens the stools and gives firmness to the intestines.
Once a week, clean farm spinach, boil it with or without adding lentils and eat it with rice and add a little ghee to the body. To cure ulcers and skin diseases, boil this vegetable along with lentils, add ginger, coriander, curry leaves and fenugreek and mix it with ghee and eat it with rice to strengthen the digestive tract and rectum.
Also, skin diseases such as scabies, scabies, sores etc. will go away. Often, pick and clean the flowers of the spinach, boil them in 250 ml of water and make a decoction and drink it every morning to cure heavy bleeding during menstruation.
Let it soak and drink it next morning. Drinking this for seven days cures diarrhea and Sita Pedi. Cough can be cured by collecting well-grown field spinach seeds and squeezing the flowers found in them to obtain powdery seeds like spinach seeds.
Collect these seeds and when necessary, take a teaspoon and mix it with milk and drink twice in the morning and in the evening to cure cough. Take one teaspoon of the cleaned seeds and boil them in two cups of milk and eat them to cure dropsy and urine.
Add a little cumin along with spinach. Grind and eat to stop dribbling of urine. People with chronic constipation can eat this spinach twice a week with food to clean the rectum.