Thread by @aayurarogyam

** Know your local herb : Devils back bone / Pirandai /Cissus quadrangularis/ viggravalli

- A potent creeper to be grown in every household

- Best medicine for curing joints aches and backache

- Strengthens your bones and cartilage tissues especially for post menopausal women

Per Ayurveda it's Vata Hara which cures the Vata imbalance in one's body

It's excellent herb for gastric disorders and aids healthy heart function

It's was a tradition in tamil Nadu to include the juice of this herb while making applams

It's natural preservative.. Plus applam is nutritious supplement for people with severe joint ailments

Black urad, dhall & this herb combination fried in Gingelly oil has ability to supplement essential good fats, enables flexibility to our joints

Applam was made hand pounded without carbonate & natural sun drying is a implicit healthy nutrient supplement to ancient Indian

This is beneficial for blood vessels and blood circulation too

This will first eliminate the gas formation in your digestive systems and there by reducing the inflammation at joints and back

This is must herb atleast once a week for menstruating women as joint aches, muscle cramps , hip and backache aka periods pain will be quite common

This herb will help to have painless menstruation especially those who are in menopausal or post menopausal stage

This herb has ability to join fractured bones and traditional herbal fracture treatment had this herb as key consituent where this is made as paste and applied over the fracture bone

The juice of this herb was applied to regain flexibility of the fractured region

Though this stem is key the leaf of this is medicinal too

Leaf is used for curing swollen joints, diabetic ulcers, regulating blood pressure

This can be used as

- Rasam
- Raw paste with dhall as ricemix
- SunDried powder (For rice mix)
- SunDried Fryums
- Chutney
- Processed dried Salt (This was ancient papad natural preservative )
- Leave and flowers were used in dhalls

- Juice with lemon was used as seasoning for salad

- Herbal pickle

- Condiments in buttermilk for weight loss

This contains rich contents of vitamin C and vitamin E and is also a rich source of natural plant based calcium

Most of vegetarian calcium supplement in the market are made from this herb

As those household women were bearing atleast four to five children it's quite natural their bones would lack calcium affecting the lactation

This is a divinely herbal gift to ancient women. This was accompanied with Gingelly oil another wonder supplement for women's health

The moment we lost these delicacies from kitchen associated with diary based milk consumption.. There was adverts supporting calcium supplement

What joint aches and arthritis was meant for octogenarian as per medical text has become disease of young mothers or some instances before marriage or childbirth in women

Let's try to follow these simple steps appreciating nature's gift and take back our control over health through our food rather medicine

Best medicine is at your kitchen and best doctor is your eating habit

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