Hello Everyone,

I thought I will give you details of 5 important herbs that have been proven to have anti-viral / anti-bacterial properties. They are ginger, garlic, turmeric, cumin seeds, and black pepper. The Siddha medicine talks about incorporating these 5 in the food we prepare rather than making some kind of a concoction with everything. This is because each of these natural herbs works in a specific way and they might interfere with one another when mixed together. So the best way to go forward is to incorporate them into your food. Let me give you examples of how you can incorporate them.

Ginger

• Take care to peel the skin of the ginger before using them in your preparations

• Can be made into a paste

• It can be used along with garlic as a ginger-garlic paste. This paste works well with meat food

Garlic

• You can also crush them and use them as a whole.

• It can be used immediately after heating oil on a pan, crushed, whole or peeled along with onion or tomato or both.

• It can be used along with garlic as a ginger-garlic paste. This paste works well with meat food.

Turmeric

• A small teaspoon full of turmeric into your food while cooking should be sufficient.

• Can be used to disinfect meat before it can be cooked

Cumin seeds

• It can be used immediately after heating oil on a pan along with onion or tomato or both.

Black Pepper

• It works best if you can sprinkle them on top of any food.

• You can also completely replace hot chillis with black pepper if you love spices.

All the above have to be bought in its natural form. Ingredients in their processed forms should be avoided.

Disclaimer – These items do not provide any relief or remedy against coronavirus infection or CoVID-19. These have anti-viral properties and in general, they increase your body immunity. So the idea is to incorporate these into your food on a daily basis to make your body strong. The other idea is to make your body respond better and fight the infection.