Health Benefits of Turmeric According to Āyurveda!!

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welcome to healthy ayurveda.com i'm dr mike daly wall eric sage today we'll talk about haridira also known as haldi or simply as turmeric turmeric dates back nearly 4 000 years during the vedic culture where it was used as a culinary spice as well as having religious and spiritual significance turmeric is still a common spice found in almost every indian kitchen and turmeric is widely used in ayurveda for managing various conditions according to ayurveda turmeric has dry and light qualities with bitter and pungent taste turmeric is heating and turmeric converts into a pungent taste after digestion therefore turmeric helps to reduce all three doshas vata pitta and kapha dosha due to its heating quality turmeric reduces both bata and kapha dosha dry and light qualities along with pungent and bitter taste further reduces kapha dosha and pitta is reduced with bitter taste of turmeric turmeric having layken and deep on actions which is a scraping effect and that which helps to promote agni this helps with certain metabolic conditions such as diabetes it's explained that of all the herbs used for diabetes turmeric is the most beneficial now it's important to acknowledge that prameja or madumeja is not the exact equivalent of diabetes mellitus however there are some similarities but being a very large topic in the study of ayurveda kapha is often the predominant aggravated docia affecting various tattoos causing symptoms of diabetes such as excess urine both in frequency and quantity that be the case it's explained that turmeric is the management of choice which helps to reduce kapha with its light dry eating qualities etc turmeric is described as having laken actions having the ability to scrape excess kapha and fatty tissue which is the therapeutic action mentioned with diabetes also knowing the close association of rakta dhatu and pitadosha turmeric helps to expel excess pita from the body and acting as a blood purifier this helps to reduce atherosclerosis which essentially helps to remove vitiated kapha or oxidized cholesterol and plaque buildup within rectatu turmeric has natural anti-inflammatory properties and helps to boost immunity so ayurveda doesn't look upon a single herb as boosting immunity rather by helping to improve digestion on all levels improving the quality of russa and by providing nutrients to aldo with such optimal tissue digestion arises oges which is the premise of a healthy and robust immune response hence turmeric having the ability to boost immunity other benefits of turmeric include being useful in managing various skin conditions turmeric helps to improve skin complexion turmeric helps to alleviate itching that's caused by certain allergic reactions turmeric helps in wound healing turmeric is used in conditions of upper respiratory tract infection helping to manage congestion and runny nose turmeric helps in relieving intestinal worms and even helpful in certain liver conditions a lot of new research is centered on healing benefits of turmeric such as possibly helping to prevent colon cancer so in a simplistic way turmeric having the ability to improve digestion purify blood balance the doshas improve immunity helping to reduce metabolic syndromes naturally this will help to prevent many of our modern diseases to leave off with something fun one may want to consider turmeric milk also commonly called golden milk it's quite simple heat about one cup of milk into a saucepan add about a half a teaspoon of dried turmeric and you can consider other spices for various medicinal properties for example nutmeg to help promote sound sleep ginger to help promote anti-inflammatory properties by helping to improve digestion or even adding a pinch of cinnamon and or cardamom helps to improve the flavor okay guys this is just a basic video on some of the healing properties of turmeric hope you've enjoyed and until next time be well