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Guava is heavy and cold. Do not eat guava at night. Vitamin ‘C’ is found in guava more than in apple and orange. Vitamin B-l and nicotine are also found in guava, minerals like calcium, iron, phosphorous and minerals are found in it, it provides fiber, which is essential for our body. Guava is also useful in digesting food. Eating raw guava causes stomach pain. Eating sweet, ripe guava is beneficial in dysentery. Its nature is neither cold nor hot.

Intoxication-
By eating guava, the intoxication of opium, ganja, charas is removed. To get rid of the habit of chewing pan all the time, take guava leaves chew them like pan three times daily and suck the juice, spit three leaves of guava, and the powder of the leaves.

Healthy children-
Guava is a nutritious food. Eat guava regularly during pregnancy. The child will be born strong.

Weak Bones-
By eating guava regularly, the bones become strong and remain strong.

Hernia- 5 leaves of eucalyptus, 5 leaves of jamun, 5 leaves of guava and 5 leaves of mango – Wash them and boil them in one kg of water by cutting them. Boil 250 grams. Filter it afterwards (fourth part) and cool it. Drink it once daily. Try it for two weeks. There will be benefits in hernia.

Mania- (1) Eat Allahabadi sweet guava pav in the morning and again in the evening at five o’clock every six weeks. If you want, you can put lemon, black pepper, salt on the guava for taste. This will give strength to the muscles of the brain, heat will go out, frenzy will go away. Mental worries are also removed by eating guava. Put two guavas in a pot filled with water at night and eat them on an empty stomach in the morning. It cures mania, the heat of the brain. (2) By eating guava, the nerves of the brain get a lot of power. It calms the mind. By eating guava regularly, the balance of the brain remains fine. If there is ringworm, itching, boils, pimple and blood disorders then eat one loaf of guava in the afternoon daily for four weeks. This will clear the stomach, remove the increased heat, purify the blood and cure boils, pimples and itching.

Chronic diarrhea – (1) Boil 20 soft leaves of guava in a glass of water, filter it and drink, it cures chronic diarrhea.
(2) If there is diarrhea in the intestines, if there is swelling in the intestines, then eating 250 grams of guava continuously for 23- months cures diarrhea. Guava contains tannic acid, whose main function is to heal wounds, it heals the intestines by healing wounds.

Diarrhea-
By eating two ripe guavas and sugar candy thrice daily, diarrhea is stopped. Filter it after (fourth part) and cool it. Drink once daily. Try it for two weeks. There will be benefits in hernia.

Dry cough-
Chewing ripe guava in it and eating it is beneficial.

Cough-
Boil ten fresh, tender, green leaves of guava like tea in a glass of water, filter it, add milk, sugar and drink it daily in the morning and evening. The cough will be fine. There is a benefit in cough.
In case of cold and flu, eat guava without seeds and drink a glass of water. Do this thrice a day, while drinking water, do not breathe through the nose and do not exhale. Close your nose and drink water and exhale through your mouth. This will cause a runny nose. Stop eating guava as soon as the nose starts running. If the cold subsides a lot in a day or two, then eat fifty grams of jaggery while sleeping at night without drinking water, just rinse it and go to sleep. The cold will be cured.
Fry a guava, cut it and add salt and eat it, it cures cold.

Gout-
Grind the green leaves of guava and apply it on the joints where there is swelling of gout, boil the leaves in water and give it water. Wash it. The intoxication of the fracture goes away by eating guava or by drinking the juice of its leaves.
Toothache- Chewing guava leaves ends toothache. In the case of gum pain, swelling, toothache, boil guava leaves and rinse them.

If there is diarrhea, constipation, eat 250 grams of guava regularly.
Intestinal swelling, abdominal pain, dysentery, cut seven leaves of guava into small pieces and boil it by squeezing half a lemon in two cups of water. After filtering, add sugar according to taste and drink it in the morning and evening, if half the water remains in boiling water, it will be beneficial.

Constipation-
(1) By eating guava, there is a thinning of the intestines and constipation is removed. It should be eaten before meals as it causes constipation if eaten after meals. One should take guava for breakfast. Patients with chronic constipation should eat guava well in the morning and evening. This will clear diarrhea. Indigestion and gas will go away. Will be hungry and digestion power increases by eating
rock salt on guava.
(2) Eat guava in sufficient quantity and add rock salt. Then after eating it, after cutting guava, the dry and hard stool does not become dry and hard due to dry ginger, black pepper and due to easy defecation, constipation does not remain. It enhances the taste and relieves stomach ache, gas and indigestion. It should be eaten in the morning with fasting (empty stomach) or with food.
(3) Taking 250 grams of guava and drinking warm milk from above end constipation.

Diabetes-
Wash and crush the guava leaves, which turn yellow in autumn, dry in the shade. Boil two spoons of it in a glass of water. After boiling half the water remaining after boiling, filter it and drink it once daily. It is beneficial in diabetes.

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  • Mihir Gupta

    Do you know a punjabi who is not a foodie... well I would call
    Myself a health aficionado . Food has an enthusiastic effect on me . Being the younger sibling with various health conditions, I was nurtured in an environment of overprotectiveness. Their concern was rooted in my lower immunity and frequent illnesses and my mother always emphasized a healthy diet, instilling in me the belief that "you are what you eat”.
    This belief was put to the test when I was the only one in my family to contract COVID-19. The isolation was challenging but became a pivotal moment for self-care and introspection. During this period, I leaned heavily on the wisdom imparted by my mother, who shared recipes for nutritious green juices and herbal teas, all sourced from our kitchen garden. I meticulously journaled this experience, recording each meal and its impact on my health.

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    Even now, I can recall the harrowing memory from when I was 4: 3 AM, my chest tightening faster than I could explain. My parents rushing to find the nebuliser.
    For most kids, a medicine cabinet is usually a background object. Not for me, though. Ours had a schedule. Steroids. Inhalers. Steam. Nebulisers.
    My missed school days were no longer measured by absences, but by how long it took for my lungs to recuperate. This illness exiled me from the very body my childhood self had once taken for granted.
    But alongside the treatment, I began to notice smaller rituals. Rituals that made the illness feel a little less consuming. The nushkas (home remedies) were endless: adrak wali chai, honey stirred into turmeric or the steam inhalation my mom transformed into a myriad of herbs. My mother never called it nutritional science, but she knew what to make and when.
    When “healthy food” came to my mind, I pictured imported products, expensive superfoods and products in a vocabulary my childhood self could not decode.
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    Lentils simmering, ginger crushing, yoghurt culturing. Ingredients so familiar, yet so valuable. The more I googled, the more I realised health shouldn’t be hidden behind imported deliveries. Sometimes, it can begin with what’s already waiting on the kitchen counter.
    This realisation became the foundation of Food Thy Medicine for me.
    I met my co- founder in the waiting room of a pulmonologist's clinic, where our shared routines of inhalers and nebulisers made the idea feel less like a project but a conversation we had to continue. Thus, I began contributing to this project during the summers after Grades 9 and 10. What began as an interest in food and health became deeply personal: a way to turn years of dependence on doctors, prescriptions and steroids into a desire to understand the body better. As a co-author, I helped build a platform that makes nutrition information practical, not glamorous.
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    The point was never to make food mythical but to make useful information feel less daunting and more reliable. It does not replace doctors or medicine: and it shouldn’t. I still take my prescribed medicine. I still live with asthma. But the illness taught me that care doesn’t begin and end at a clinic door and may be found in the ordinary decisions at home. What we cook, what we keep in the fridge and how we care for ourselves between appointments.
    I can’t control every flare up. But I can keep asking better questions, and help more people see possibility in the food around them.

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