Lunch Ideas - Creating Balanced Vegetarian Meals

@Gauri03 long pepper and ginger is great for cold and cough. We have a chooran called thrikatu chooran( a mixed thri -3 katu -very hot) used for treating ashtma sinus and cold. They say a small pinch of the mixture of the powder and honey take. 40 days can help in keep respiratory infections at bay. Pregnant ladies don't try it.

So what are the three.

Dry ginger
Long pepper and
Pepper

Sundried well( pudam podarathu meaning they are dried naturally in sun and not artificially heated and the ones that are sun dried and crushed with a stone are best)

We use both the roots and the fruit of the long pepper/thipilli plant and even the fresh leaves.


The fruit ..looks like grains hence arisithippili


The roots-kandathippili

The rasam or let us say soup is great during recovery

Fresh leaves are used to make a mild tea for cold and bodyache.

A poultice if thippili is applied on the forehead for relieving of headache but these days they dont as we get balms otc.

 

@Iravati ..girl you rock.. and i know you will look the same as those very old pics i sAw

 

@Writera that would hurt a lot. Our pickles definitely have probiotics. Especially mavadu and amla and some pickles that are soaked in curds.
Our fermented idli, dosa should also get into the list.
The best i feel is this tip our english teacher asked us to do when we were i. 6th i believe. Cook rice by 4 in the evening allow it to cool. Add milk,culture and water , mix and allow it to rest . Eat it in the morning before coming to school. I think he did have a point

 

And yes saurkraut.. and wrap some cabbage leaf around the breast suppose to help. If you can handle jasmine they are age old remedies for helping reduce the swelling. Crush them baste them and tie a guaze to keep them on. And take some warm compress..

 

Yay congrats satchi @satchitanana have a mango barfi guilt free