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Food & You:Health Benefits of Asafoetida

2012-05-16

Name: Editor What are the health benefits of asafoetida? Can asafoetida be used in home remedies? What is the use of asafoetida essential oil?

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2016-09-20

Name: Kiaan
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RE:Health Benefits of Asafoetida

Asafoetida is a flavor enhancer. It is used in Indian cooking. Asafoetida is useful in curing breathing problems. It is used as a fragrance at home. It also helps to purify our skin and keeps it shiny and healthy as we age.

2016-03-03

Name: Saini
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RE:Health Benefits of Asafoetida

Asafoetida oil is a pale yellow or oranage coloured oil which is used in aromatherapy in place of garlic. The pungent oil can also be using to repel insects. It is used in the treatment of hysteria and for many symptoms associated with mood swings and depression.

2013-06-20

Name: Amber
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Uses of Asafoetida oil

Asafoetida oil is a pale yellow or oranage coloured oil. it is used in aromatherapy in place of garlic. The pungent oil can be using to repel insects. It is used in the treatment of hysteria and for many symptoms associated with mood swings and depression.is used to treat chronic bronchitis and asthma, whooping cough (pertussis), croup, and hoarseness. It has also been used for digestive problems notably gas, and irritable bowel syndrome, and irritable colon.

2016-02-16

Name: minal
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Asafetida’s medicinal uses are many, which include the treatment of influenza. Asafetida is beneficial in fighting the swine flu and H1N1 virus. It is also used in treating asthma and bronchitis and is effective is treating colds and the flu in children. In addition, it can also be used for reducing chronic bronchitis and whooping cough due to its anti-microbial action.
It is also considered to have contraceptive properties and is used for contraception in traditional medicine.
Asafetida is good protection against triglycerides and cholesterol formed due to excessive fat consumption. However, care needs to be taken when it is used along with blood pressure medication.
Asafetida helps in countering the effects of long-term alcohol intake, which can cause severe liver damage and even death. To fight the condition, phytochemicals present in dietary supplement like asafetida are beneficial in avoiding ethanol induced hepatotoxicity. This is enabled due to its anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects. my mother used to rub it on my stomach when i was baby when i uused to have gases. it really helps for that.

2013-06-20

Name: Sainath
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Health benefits of hing

It is a good anit-flatulence agent. when added to vegetables that cause bloating, it helps in releasing the wind. For colic pain, hing is a miracle cure. when applied on the umbilicus, it relieves colicky pain. it can treat many many viral infections. When having a tooth ache, dip a cotton in hing and apply to it, tooth ache will be gone.

2016-02-16

Name: somya
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Asafetida health benefits are many; it is an antiepileptic, antimicrobial, laxative, anti-inflammatory, expectorant, antispasmodic, and anti-flatulent agent.
Asafetida helps reduce flatulence, digestive disorders, prevents constipation and is an excellent laxative. A pinch of asafetida can be taken with butter milk to reduce flatulence and cleanse the digestive system.
Granules of asafetida can be dissolved in water and taken for relieving migraines and headaches. Asafetida is also a natural remedy for colic in babies by placing a small amount of warm asafetida on the baby’s stomach.
Asafetida also acts as an anti-coagulant and helps lower blood pressure.
Asafetida is favorable for women’s health as it helps counter leucorrhoea, dysmenorrhea, excessive and painful menstruation, and has positive benefits in treating candida infection.
i love smell of hing while cookinng and itt gives me satisfaction of cooking and eating that particular food

2013-06-20

Name: Srikrishna
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Health benefits of hing

There are many relatively unknown health benefits of hing also. it is used in many home remedies also. treatment of impotency. It is said that a mixture a few centigrams (6-7) of asafoetida, fried in ghee is mixed with a spoonful of fresh banyan tree latex and honey. The medicine is taken every day for 40 consecutive days before sunrise (empty stomach).It is useful to treat women problems such as sterility, leucorrhoea, difficult and painful menstruation, premature labor, unwanted abortion and sterility.It treats nervous disorders in children.

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