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HERBAL PORRIDGES FOR IMMUNE ENHANCING

Immunity plays a vital role in the today’s contest .To protect your body from the diseases and to upgrade your body resistance against the diseases majorly from the communicable diseases is done by immunity .For that purpose, to boost your health today we are going to discuss about herbal porridges for immune enhancing that are using in Sri Lankan traditional medicine and also in the Ayurvedic system of medicine. For the preparation of immune enhancing herbal porridge you can use leaves of one / few types of the below mention herbs
  • · Indian pennywart- Centella asiatica
  • · Little iron weed - Vernonia cinerea
  • · Holy basil, Sacred basil -Ocimum tenuiflorum
  • · Egg plant- Solanum melongena
  • · Atalantia ceylanica
  • · Turkey berry- Solanum torvum
  • · Curry leaves-Murraya koenigii















Ingredients for the preparation of herbal porridge for 4 persons

Ø One/few types of above mentioned leaves
Ø 1-2 chips of fresh ginger
Ø 2-3 garlic cloves
Ø 100g of rice ( its better to use traditional rice variety to get more benefits )
Ø Salt to the taste
Ø Handful of scraped coconut

Method of preparation;

1. Cook rice by adding more water
2. Take juice from the leaves by crushing them, then add scraped coconut in to the residue
     of the ground leaves ,chop it by adding water and squeeze the juice in to another vessel
3. When rice is properly cooked and turn in to semi solid nature,you can add the above
    squeezed juice ,salt to the taste, ginger and garlic cloves to rice and keep stirring
4. Heat it under mild flame for few minutes and take it off

How to use

Ø You can use one cup of this herbal porridge early morning to the empty stomach

You may have variety of benefits in the consumption of these types of herbal porridges.
Benefits may vary depending upon the type of leaves that you use in the preparation .Here
are some of them,


Ø Centella asiatica- indian pennywart

Benefits- Antiulcer ,Antidiabetic ,Cardioprotective activity , Skin protective activity –
anti ageing property,Sliming effect ,Immuno-modulating effects ,Memory enhancing etc.

Ø Vernonia cinerea -Little iron weed

Benefits -It is used to control fever, inflammation, bleeding, swelling and detoxification . It is also seen to have therapeutic effects against certain gastrointestinal and skin disorders and also some
immunomodulatory effect ,Anti-hypergylcemic activity, Antioxidant activity ,Antitumour activity
Ameliorative activity ,Antidiarrhoeal activities ,Antimicrobial activity, Anti helmintic activity
etc.

Ø Ocimum tenuiflorum- Holy basil, Sacred basil

Benefits -Anxiety ,Dental plaque ,Diabetes,Obesity ,Stress,Common cold ,Influenza ("the
flu"),Asthma,Bronchitis ,Earache,Gingivitis,Headache,Heart disease,Fever,Insomnia.

Ø Solanum melongena – egg plant

Benefits -The plant is reported to have analgesic, antipyretic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory,
antiasthmatic, hypolipidemic, hypotensive, antiplatelet, intraocular pressure reducing, CNS depressant and anaphylactic reaction inhibitory activities, immune modulatory activity

Ø Solanum torvum-turkey berry

Benefits-exhibit Anti-oxidant activity, cardio vascular, immunomodulatory and nephroprotective activity supporting its traditional uses

Ø Atalantia ceylanica

Benefits-Fever , cough , digestive impairments , mainly for all types of phlegm conditions

Ø Aerva lanata- Mountain Knot Gras

Benefits-Urolithiasis activity, Diuretic activity ,Acute renal failure ,Antimicrobial activity ,
Antihyperglycemic activity ,Antihelmintic activity ,Antiulcer activity

Ø Murraya koenigii-curry leaves

Benefits- anti diabetic, for oral health, anti-oxidation activity,anti-cancer activity, effect on bronchial disorders, protect and improves the eye vision, anti-microbial activity , anti-diarrheal , immune modulatory activity, nephron protective activity etc.


All of the benefits mentioned above are supported by the research articles . If you interested you can go

through these to have further information.

References ;

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kulsoom_Zahara2/publication/274393672_Clinical_and_ therapeutic_benefits_of_Centella_asiatica/links/551fa3f20cf29dcabb08876f.pdf  https://www.jpsr.pharmainfo.in/Documents/Volumes/vol9Issue09/jpsr09091703.pdf  https://scinapse.io/papers/2505931702  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270016065_Pharmacological_activities_of_Solanum _melongena_Linn_Brinjal_plant  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16170979  http://impactfactor.org/PDF/IJPCR/7/IJPCR,Vol7,Issue4,Article17.pdf  https://medcraveonline.com/MOJBM/curry-leaf-murraya-koenigii-a-spice-with-medicinalproperty.html

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