முருங்கையின் பயன்கள் Moringa oleifera

 

Moringa oleifera is a tree whose name is derived from the Tamil word Murungai, otherwise popularly known as drumstick tree in India. The moringa tree is fast growing, drought resistant, native to the southern foothills of the Himalayas in northwestern India. Today moringa is widely cultivated throughout Africa, Central and South America and many parts of Asia. But the most amazing fact of this plant is its nutrient content: from the roots to the sap, every part of the plant yields some health benefits. It has 46 types of antioxidants, 36 kinds of anti-inflammatories and a wealth of other beneficial compounds.

Morigna oleifera has been used by the traditional Indian medical system of Ayurveda as early as 150 BC to treat a wide variety of health problems such as arthritis, heart disease, bacterial, fungal and viral infections. It is difficult to avoid superlatives when describing Moringa’s value as a food source. It is rich in protein, calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron vitamin A and vitamin C. The leaves of this plant have high levels of a compound called beta-sitosterol known to lower cholesterol. Further, researchers have found that leaves have 2009mg of calcium per 100gm which is more calcium that 6 cups of milk. It also has 28mg of iron per 100gm- that is more that 7 oz of chicken liver. The flowers contain antioxidant substances called flavonids, such as quercetin, kaempferol, rhametin, isoquercitrin, and kaempferitrin, The plant’s root is rich in moringinem alkaloids that appear to have cardiac stimulant and hypertensive effects. It also has antibacterial and antifungal properties. The seeds are anti-hypertensive and help protect the liver. Moringa gum is used as an abortifacient, to treat headaches, fever, dysentery, asthma and intestinal cancer.

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மேலும் வாசிக்க....

Advice from a Tree

Benefits of Dandelion and Dandelion Root

 

                 

  

 

Dandelion is most often thought of as a pesky weed that takes over in lawns, gardens, meadows, and even pops up in cracked sidewalks and pavement. It is invasive and pervasive. Lucky for us, it is also an excellent food and herbal medicine that anyone can find, grow, and put to use.

Dandelion is a very rich source of beta-carotene which we convert into vitamin A. This flowering plant is also rich in vitamin C, fiber, potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc, and phosphorus. It is a good place to get B complex vitamins, trace minerals, organic sodium, and even vitamin D. Dandelion contains protein too, more than spinach. It has been eaten for thousands of years and used to treat anemia, scurvy, skin problems, blood disorders, and depression.

Seeds grow readily in your garden, planter boxes, or pots. If you collect them wild, try to choose ones you know have not been subjected to pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals. The ones in your lawn are not the best. Pick them instead from a mountain meadow or abandoned lot. Seeds can be bought or you can gather them from the familiar puff balls you see each summer. Dandelion leaves can also be found fresh in some health food markets or as a freeze-dried herb. Dandelion tea, capsules, and tinctures are also available.

 

Digestive Aid – Dandelion acts as a mild laxative that promotes digestion, stimulates appetite, and balances the natural and beneficial bacteria in the intestines.

 

Kidney – This weed-like superfood is a diuretic that helps the kidneys clear out waste, salt, and excess water. This inhibits microbial growth in the urinary system too.

 

Liver – Dandelion has been shown to improve liver function by removing toxins and reestablishing hydration and electrolyte balance.

 

Antioxidants – Every part of the dandelion plant is rich in antioxidants that prevent free-radical damage to cells and DNA, slowing down the aging process in our cells.

 

Cancer – Dandelion acts against cancer to slow its growth and prevent its spread. The leaves are especially rich in the antioxidants and phytonutrients that combat cancer.

Diabetes – Recent animal studies show promise that dandelion helps regulate blood sugar and insulin levels.

High Blood Pressure – As a diuretic dandelion increases urination which then lowers blood pressure. The fiber and potassium in dandelion also regulate blood pressure.

Cholesterol – Animal studies have shown that dandelion lowers and control cholesterol levels.

Gallbladder – Dandelion increases bile production and reduces inflammation to help with gallbladder problems and blockages.

Inflammation – Dandelion contains essential fatty acids and phytonutrients that reduce inflammation throughout the body. This can relieve pain and swelling.

Immune System – Animal studies also show that dandelion boosts immune function and fights off microbes and fungi.

Dandelion leaves, flowers, and roots are all edible. They have a slightly bitter flavor that can be minimized by harvesting them in the fall or spring. Cooking cuts the bitter flavor as well though the leaves make a great addition to raw salads.

Dandelion is generally considered safe in food and medicinal levels. Some people may have allergic reactions to dandelion. Anyone with an allergy to ragweed, chrysanthemum, marigold, chamomile, yarrow, or daisy should avoid dandelion and anyone pregnant, nursing, or taking prescription drugs should talk to a health care professional before adding something new to their diet.

 

Remolacha - Red Beet, Amaranthaceae: Beta vulgaris

 

The beet belongs to the same family as chard and spinach and while the leaves have a bitter taste like chard, it is rich in chlorophyll and has a higher nutritional value than its roots. Both beet root and beet greens are very powerful cleansers and builders of the blood. Betacyanin is the phytochemical in beet that gives it its rich ‘amethyst’ color that significantly reduces homocysteine levels. Beets are loaded with vitamins A, B1, B2, B6 and C. The greens have a higher content of iron compared to spinach. They are also an excellent source of calcium, magnesium, copper, phosphorus, sodium and iron. Its iron content, though not high, is of the highest and finest quality that makes excellent food that is blood building. This renders it highly effective in treating many ailments caused by our toxic environment and surrounding.

Acidosis: Its alkalinity is essential and effective in combating acidosis.

Anemia: The high content of iron in beets regenerates and reactivates the red blood cells and supplies fresh oxygen to the body. The copper content in beets help make the iron more available to the body. A great blood builder.

Atherosclerosis: The juice is a powerful solvent for inorganic calcium deposits that cause the arteries to harden.

Blood pressure: All its healing and medicinal values effectively normalizes blood pressure, lowering high blood pressure or elevating low blood pressure.

Cancer: Betaine, an amino acid in beet root, has significant anti-cancer properties. Studies show that beet juice inhibits formation of cancer-causing compounds and is protective against colon or stomach cancer.

Constipation: The cellulose content helps to ease bowel movements. Drinking beet juice regularly will help relieve chronic constipation.

Dandruff: Mix a little vinegar in a small cup of beet juice. Massage it into the scalp with your fingertips and leave it on for about an hour, then rinse. Do this daily till dandruff clears up. Warning: you will smell awful during this hour!

Detoxification: The choline from the juice detoxifies not only the liver, but also the entire system of excessive alcohol abuse.

Gastric ulcer: Mix honey with your beet juice and drink two or three times a week on an empty stomach (more frequently if your body is familiar with beets juice). It helps speed up the healing process.

Gall bladder and kidney ailments: Coupled with carrot juice, the superb cleansing virtues are exceptional for curing ailments relating to these two organs.

Liver or bile: The cleansing virtues in beet juice is very healing for liver toxicity or bile ailments, like jaundice, hepatitis, food poisoning, diarrhea or vomiting. A squeeze of lime with beet juice heightens the efficacy in treating these ailments.

Varicose veins: In similar ways that it helps to keep the elasticity of arteries, regular consumption of beet juice also helps prevent varicose veins.

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IF - By Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Invictus

Why setting your goal is important?

Most things that you want to happen do not happen by chance. You have to make them happen. Setting goals will help you achieve your aims by giving you a purpose and a focus. The following guidelines written by Dr.Dingle will help you achieve your goals.

Make sure your goals are:

Precise : be as specific and as clear as possible
 

positive : you will always head in the direction of your goals. A negative goal will take you in a negative direction.
 

Present : when your mind think you are already there, it will do everything it can to

keep you there.

Purpose driven: find our what is really important to you and head in that direction. Make sure your goals are consistent with your values.
 

Personal : Make sure your goals are what you want and not other people's goals.
 

Short term : set goals you can achieve each days and each week build up your successes.
 

Long term : set long term goals that give you something to strive for. Challenging and significant : make your goals worth while. If they are too easy, your mind think “ why bother? “

measurable : this makes it easy to see how well you are doing, to measure your pace and success.

Flexible : this means that, if major things happen in your life and you are not on target, simply adjust your goals. Stuffs happens in our lives and we can't always plan for it.

Now write them down.

மேலும் வாசிக்க....

4 THE POWER OF VIRTUE - அறன் வலியுறுத்தல்

From virtue weal and wealth outflow:

What greater good can mankind know?


Virtue enhances joy and gain;

Forsaking it is fall and pain.


Perform food deeds as much you can

Always and everywhere, o man.


In spotless mind virtue is found

and not in show ans swelling sound.


Four ills eschew and virtue reach,

Lust, anger, envy, evil-speech.


Do good enow; defer it not

A deathless aid in death if sought.


Litter-bearer and rider say

Without a word, the fortune's way.


Like stones that block rebirth and pain

Are doing food and good again.


Weal flows only from virtue done

The rest is rue and renown gone.

Worthy act is virtue done

Vice is what we ought to shun.




சிறப்பு ஈனும் செல்வமும் ஈனும் அறத்தின் ஊங்கு

ஆக்கம் எவனோ உயிர்க்கு.


அறத்தின் ஊங்கு ஆக்கமும் இல்லை அதனை

மறத்தலின் ஊங்கு இல்லை கேடு.


ஒல்லும் வகையான் அறவினை ஓவாதே

செல்லும் வாய் எல்லாம் செயல்


மனத்துக்கண் மாசுஇலன் ஆதல் அனைத்துஅறன்

ஆகுல நீர பிற.


அழுக்காறு அவாவெகுளி இன்னாச்சொல் நான்கும்

இழுக்கா இயன்றது அறம்.


அன்று அறிவாம் என்னாது அறம் செய்க மற்றுஅது

பொன்றுங்கால் பொன்றாத் துணை.


அறத்துஆறு இது என வேண்டா சிவிகை

பொறுத்தானோடு ஊர்ந்தான் இடை.


வீழ்நாள் படாஅமை நன்று ஆற்றின் அது ஒருவன்

வாழ்நாள் வழி அடைக்கும் கல்.


அறத்தான் வருவதே இன்பம்மற்று எல்லாம்

புறத்த புகழும் இல.


செயற்பால் தோரும் அறனே ஒருவற்கு

உயற்பால தோரும் பழி.

Astonishment

I had the flu. It was a constant irritant and I was suffering lots of pain. I did not want to spread this terrible flu to others. My suffering was bad enough. So I decided to take the day off work. I sent an email to my office and went back to bed.

However, I found I could not stay in bed. I am, by nature, a workaholic. As I lay in bed, I looked around my room.
There were a few more clothes in the laundry basket, so I woke up properly, had some of the ginger tea which helps to relieve the flu symptoms and took the clothes to the launderette, which was 50 metres from my room.

No-one was there. As it was about 10am on a Friday, most of the usual customers were at work. But when I entered, I noticed a suitcase in the middle of the floor.

I loaded my clothes into the machine and turned it on. I had an hour to spend while my clothes were washing and drying, so I started to read the magazines I had brought along. But I found I could not concentrate on reading because of the suitcase in front of me.

No-one was there. All the machines were off except the one I was using. There were too many questions bubbling up in my mind about the suitcase. In the end, I decided to open the suitcase and see what was in it - but still I was scared. What was inside? Who had brought it there? Why had they placed it in the middle of the floor? If someone had forgotten it, it should have been near one of the seats or on top of one of the machines, but it was in the middle of the floor.

So it had been someone's deliberate plan to place it there in full view of anyone who entered the launderette. It might contain explosives.

There are lots of movies showing such incidents. An anonymous box is in a place where people gather. Someone tries to open it. The box explodes and the people are killed.

But, despite my fears, my mind kept insisting that I should open the suitcase and there would be money inside. Because it was my dream to adopt children who have lost their parents through the horrors war or other circumstances, those who are poor, are craving for food or are seeking to study.

I was thinking seriously about the suitcase and whether to open it or not. If it contained money, my dream would come true. If it contained explosives, my life would end with a big bang and it would hit the headlines the next day in all the newspapers in the country, perhaps even the world. I had spent 30 minutes in the launderette.

Still no-one came. I looked in the street. There was no-one there too. My mind, eaten up with curiosity, was pushing me forward to look inside the suitcase.

Christians have a saying, "Knock at the door and it will open for you. Do not think that it is locked. Sometimes it is just closed." So I prayed to God and took a coin and tossed it. Heads and I would call the police. Tails and I would open the suitcase.

மேலும் வாசிக்க....

THE BALD MAN AND THE FLY

A Fly settled on the head of a Bald Man and bit him.

In his eagerness to kill it, he hit himself a smart slap.

But the Fly escaped, and said to him in derision,

"You tried to kill me for just one little bite; what will you do to yourself now, for the heavy smack you have just given yourself?"

"Oh, for that blow I bear no grudge,"
he replied,

"for I never intended myself any harm; but as for you, you contemptible insect, who live by sucking human blood, I'd have borne a good deal more than that for the satisfaction of dashing the life out of you!"

From Aesop story

3. நீத்தார் பெருமை/THE MERIT OF ASCETICS

 

ஒழுக்கத்து நீத்தார் பெருமை விழுப்பத்து

வேண்டும் பனுவல் துணிவு.

No merit can be held so high

As theirs who sense and self deny.



துறந்தார் பெருமை துணைக்கூறின் வையத்து

இறந்தாரை எண்ணிக்கொண் டற்று.

To con ascetic glory here

Is to count the dead upon the sphere.



இருமை வகைதெரிந்து ஈண்டுஅறம் பூண்டார்

பெருமை பிறங்கிற்று உலகு.

No lustre can with theirs compare

Who know the right and virtue wear.



உரன்என்னும் தோட்டியான் ஓர்ஐந்தும் காப்பான்

வரன்என்னும் வைப்பிற்குஓர் வித்து

With hook of firmness to restrain

The senses five, is heaven to gain.



ஐந்துஅவித்தான் ஆற்றல் அகல்விசும்பு ளார்கோமான்

இந்திரனே சாலும் கரி

Indra himself has cause to say

How great the power ascetics, sway.



செயற்குஅரிய செய்வார் பெரியர்,சிறியர்

செயற்குஅரிய செய்கலா தார்.

The small the paths of ease pursue

The great achieve things rare to do.



சுவைஒளி ஊறுஓசை நாற்றம்என்று ஐந்தின்

வகைதெரிவான் கட்டே உலகு.

They gain the world, who grasp and tell

Of taste, sight, hearing, touch and smell.



நிறைமொழி மாந்தர் பெருமை நிலத்து

மறைமொழி காட்டி விடும்.

Full-worded men by what they say,

Their greatness to the world display.



குணம்என்னும் குன்றுஏறி நின்றார் வெகுளி

கணமேயும் காத்தல் அரிது.

Their wrath, who've climb'd the mount of good

Though transient, cannot be withstood.



அந்தணர் என்போர் அறவோர்மற்று எவ்வுயிர்க்கும்

செந்தண்மை பூண்டுஒழுக லான்

With gentle mercy towards all,

The sage fulfils the virtue's call.

வான்சிறப்பு/THE BLESSING OF RAIN

வான்நின்று உலகம் வழங்கி வருதலால்

தான் அமிழ்தம் என்று உணரற் பாற்று

The genial rain ambrosia call;
The world but lasts while rain shall fall.

 

துப்பார்க்குத் துப்புஆய துப்புஆக்கித் துப்பார்க்குத்

தப்புஆய தூஉம் மழை

The rain begets the food we eat;
And forms a food and drink concrete.



விண்இன்று பொய்ப்பின் விரிநீர் வியன்உலகத்து

உள்நின்று உடற்றும் பசி

Let clouds their visits stay, and dearth
Distresses all the sea-girt earth

ஏரின் உழாஅர் உழவர் புயல்என்னும்

வாரி வளம்குன்றிக் கால்

Unless the fruitful shower descend,
The ploughman's sacred toils must end.



கெடுப்பதூஉம் கெட்டார்க்குச் சார்வாய்மற்று ஆங்கே

எடுப்பதூஉம் எல்லாம் மழை.

Destruction it may sometimes pour,
But only rain can life restore.



விசும்பின் துளிவீழின் அல்லால்மற்று ஆங்கே

பசும்புல் தலைகாண்பு அரிது

No grassy blade its head will rear,
if from the cloud no drop appear.



நெடும்கடலும் தன்நீர்மை குன்றும் தடிந்து எழிலி

தான்நல்காது ஆகி விடின்

The ocean's wealth will wasre away,
Except the cloud its stores repay.



சிறப்பொடு பூசனை செல்லாது வானம்

வறக்குமேல் வானோர்க்கும் ஈண்டு

The earth, beneath a barren sky,
Would offerings for the gods deny.



தானம் தவம்இரண்டும் தங்கா வியன்உலகம்

வானம் வழங்காது எனின்.

Were heaven above to fail below,
Nor alms nor penance earth would show.



நிர்இன்று அமையாது உலகு எனின் யார்யார்க்கும்

வான்இன்று அமையாது ஒழுக்கு.  

Water is life that comes from rain
Sans rain our duties go in vain.

கடவுள் வாழ்த்து - THE PRAISE OF GOD

அகர முதல எழுத்துஎல்லாம் ஆதி

பகவன் முதற்றே உலகு

'A' leads letters; the Ancient lord
leads and lords the entire world


கற்றதனால் ஆய பயன்என்கொல் வாலறிவன்

நற்றாள் தொழாஅர் எனின்.


That lore is vain which does not fall
At His good feet who knoweth all


மலர்மிசை ஏகினான் மாணடி சேர்ந்தார்

நிலமிசை நீடுவாழ் வார்.

Long they live on earth who gain
The feet of God in florid brain


வேண்டுதல் வேண்டாமை இலான்எடி சேர்ந்தார்க்கு

யாண்டும் இடும்பை இல.


Who hold his feet who likes nor loathes
Are free from woes of human births.



இருள்சேர் இருவினையும் சேரா இறைவன்

பொருள்சேர் புகழ்புரிந்தார் மாட்டு.

God's praise who tell, are free from right
And wrong, the twins of dreaming night.



பொறிவாயில் ஐந்துஅவித்தான் பொய்தீர் ஒழுக்க

நெறிநின்றார் நீடுவாழ் வார்.

They prosper long who walk his way
who has the senses singed away.


தனக்குஉவமை இல்லாதான் தாள்சேர்ந்தார்க்கு அல்லால்

மனக்கவலை மாற்றல் அரிது.

His feer, whose likeness none can find
Alone can ease the anxious mind.


அறவாழி அந்தணன் தாள்சேர்ந்தார்க்கு அல்லால்

பிறவாழி நீத்தல் அரிது.

Who swims the see of vice is he
who clasps the feet of virtue's sea.


கோள்இல் பொறியில் குணம்இலவே எண்குணத்தான்

தாளை வணங்காத் தலை.

Like senses stale that head is vain
Which bows not to eight-virtued Divine.


பிறவிப்பெருங்கடல் நீந்துவார் நீந்தார்

இறைவன் அடிசேரா தார்.

The sea of births they alone swim,
who clench his feet and cleave to him.

Hail or Fail

The people are living civil!
To military, they have to hail!
If not they have to go to jail!
Therefore their life will be fail!
Ethnics were living together like as finger and nail!
But government have not treated them equal!
They sent to government about that many mail1
But all mails had gone to pail!
Therefore they had got wail!
Their tragedy all have been veil!
Then the people were sent to the world a rail!
But they also give people ail!
Therefore they have come to Aussy by sail!
If the people would exile,
They want to go again jail!
Their life will become again fail!