🌷Kokam🌷
🌻Sometimes in crowd of widely advertised yet not proven nutrients we miss nature’s precious gifts.
🌻You will not see any advertisement of kokam sharbat on tv but that doesn’t make it less useful.
🌻Many in our country not even heard name of this fruit but avacado is common name now.
🌻 This neglected and underused yet tasty, flavourful and sour fruit is full of health benefits.
🤔What is kokam??
👉It is a plant which generally grows in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and South India.
👉Its fruit, leaves, stem is used as food and medicine, its ripened fruit is red in color.
👉 It is known as vrikshamla in Ayurveda.
👉It is sour sweet in taste and heavy to digest.
🤔In which conditions kokam is useful??
✅It is an excellent cardiac tonic, it protect heart and maintains cholesterol level in blood. 💓
✅ It prevents infection. 😍
✅ It is very useful in diarrhoea, dysentery , IBS and colicky pain. 🌺
✅ It relieves acidity. 🌻
✅It heals stomach ulcer. 💐
✅It is useful in throat infection and sore throat, have its juice with ginger juice and honey,hold its water in mouth for 5 minutes. 🌷🌷
✅ It improves digestion. Useful in flatulence, bloating and burping. 🌵
✅It has antioxidant, antibacterial and anti inflammatory properties . 🌼
✅ Useful in Anemia. 🌺
✅ It Relieves excessive thirst, include it in food, have it as sharbat or hold it water in mouth 🥵
✅ Use in worm infestation. 🐛
✅ It protects liver. 🦋
✅ Its sharbat is used in summer as it rehydrate the body and prevent heat related headache. 🌹
✅ Use its water in case of absent period. 🌼
✅ It pacifies vata dosha so it is useful in vata disorders and vatic pains. 🌀
✅ It helps in weight loss. 🌼🌷
✅Its seed oil is used in cosmetic industry. 🌷
🤔How to use it??
👉Kokam is used both externally and internally.
👉 It’s water or juice can be applied in skin rashes, headache and burning sensations .
👉For Internal use
Juice 5-10ml can be taken
Syrup 10-20 ml
Tab or capsules
Leaves chutney
Sharbat or soup.
🌻Kokam sharbat – soak its dried fruit overnight add jaggery or sugar, roasted cumin seeds and salt in it.
🌻Kokam soup for winters – soak it overnight, filter and boil this water for few minutes, add sugar, salt and seasoning it with ghee, cumin seeds and curry leaves.
In Sindhi community dried kokam has been used in Sindhi kadhi,sambhar etc.