Spinach

To let increase the health benefits of spinach, avoid freezing it. The best way to use it is consume it fresh the very day you buy it. Cooking spinach increase the nutrition three times the raw spinach. Because the nutrients in raw spinach cannot be easily broken down in our body. Oxalic Acid in spinach blocks the iron and calcium from getting absorbed in our bodies. This can be easily countered by using spinach with food high in Vitamin C, or simply boiling the spinach for two minutes will reduce the power of oxalic acid. It is a rich source of Vitamin C, A and K. The Flavonoid and Carotenoid in Spinach acts as anti-oxidant and anti-cancer agent.

• Helps prevent atherosclerosis i.e. thickening or hardening of arteries
• Anti-aging vegetable
• Anti-cancer and anti-oxidant; flush down toxins from colon
• Due to Vit K, helps in formation of blood substance required for blood clotting
• Nourishes eyes and build bones
• Help digestion, eases constipation and protects mucus lining of stomach. Prevents ulcers
• The vitamins and minerals help relieve dry itchy skin and benefits complexion
• Helps stabilize blood sugar in diabetics

For Blood Sugar Level

Take several handful of Spinach.

Add 3 cups of water.

Place over low heat for an hour.

Then strain.

Take twice a day.

Cumin Seeds/ Zeera

Cumin Seeds are largely used as spices and in culinary practice in Indian Subcontinent, and other Asian, Latin American and African countries. Even its aroma is enough to activate our salivary glands and aid digestion. Contains Essential Oils, Magnesium, Protein, Iron, Calcium, Vitamin E and C, dietary fiber and sodium content. 

• Aids in Digestion. Acts as Carminative. Relieves stomachache if taken with hot water.
• Help treat piles
• Helps increase metabolism
• Help relieve wounds and infection in digestive and excretory system
• Prevents Diabetes
• Help relieve stress and anxiety (which also leads to insomnia)
• Acts as expectorant i.e. eliminates phlegm and mucus
• Helps in respiratory disorders, like asthma, bronchitis, etc.
• Acts as disinfectant, and fights viral infections, like common cold. 
• The Vitamin C in cumin acts as antioxidant, and removes toxins from body and strengthen immune system
• Because of Iron content, it's good for lactating and pregnant mothers, or women undergoing menses. Moreover it help ease and increase milk production in lactating mothers
• It help build hemoglobin and hence fight anemia
• Increase cognitive function and help fight cognitive disorders
• It has antifungal and antibacterial properties; help keep skin healthy and prevents premature aging
• Regular users of cumin have less chance of boils, pimples, rashes, etc. 
• Help keep liver clean and kidney strong
• Decreases cholesterol
• Have chemopreventive properties; helps fight various kinds of cancer, especially colon cancer
• Helps in treating renal coli, weak memory, insect bites and stings

Drinks Remedies

For Healthy Skin:
2 Peeled Cucumber
Lemon Juice from 1 lemon squeezed out
1/2 inch ginger piece crushed
Blend all ingredients well until they become one. Mix it in half glass of water. Save it and consume as needed.

Flat Belly Infused Water
6 cups Filtered Water
1 Tbsp Grated Ginger
1 Cucumber, Sliced
1/3 cup Mint Leaves
Let the mixture infused overnight. Drink it the next day.

To Stabilize Blood Sugar Level:
1 Green Apple
1 Bitter Gourd
1/2 Cucumber
1/2 Lemon
1 Celery Branches
Blend all ingredients well until they become one. Save it and consume as needed.

Milk

Milk is an essential for bones. It contains Vitamin A & B, Calcium, Carbohydrates, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Zinc, Protein and Riboflavin. If you have no time left for breakfast, just one glass of fresh milk will keep you satisfied for 5 to 6 hours. Milk is best when it has been milked out and its value decreases by the passage of time thereafter. Freshly milked, it is less cold and more humid in nature. Milk is quite better 40 days after the animal has given birth. Best type of milk is most white in color, has good scent, delicious taste, mildly sweet, with less fat and light consistency, taken from young healthy animal.

• Strengthens immune system (balances WBCs)
• Relieve depression, obsession and black bile ailment
• Produces red blood and hydrates the body, rejuvenating the skin
• Cleanse the insisdes of septic materials, if taken with honey
• Milk taken with brown sugar, makes the skin color fair
• Helps body regain its strength after sexual activity
• Favorable for chest and lungs
• Prevents hypertension
• Reduces dental decay (but may get harmful for teeth and gums if drunk excessively without rinsing mouth after it)
• Prevents respiratory problems, obesity, osteoporosis, and some kinds of cancer

Although milk seems a simple food item, It is equipped with three major substances: Cheese, Fats and Water.

• Cheese is cold and wet in nature, and is very good for nutrition. 
• Ghee/ Fat contained in milk is mild regarding warmth and wetness, and is very beneficial for healthy bodies. 
• The water part of milk is wet and hot in nature. It softens the stomach and help provide body with beneficial moisture. 

For people who are not used to drinking milk; it is not favorable for those suffering from fever, headaches, weak head and brain, and stomach, liver and spleen ailments. Excessive drinking of milk also can cause sight impairment, gout, kidney clogs, stomach and intestines swelling. All these effects can be avoided and neutralized by using milk with honey and dry ginger. So everyone can enjoy milk regularly and benefit from the endless bounties in it.

Fish

Fish are of many kinds but the best quality is the most delicious, best scented, moderate in size, having fine scales and softest (not dry) meat, which lives in fresh water that flows on pebbles, and eat plants, not organic wastes. The best areas for such fish to be found are in freshest water hiding within rocks and sandy places, void of filth and waste, places with frequent waves and exposed to sun and wind.

Sea fish is delicious and easy to digest. Fresh water fish is cold and wet in food nature. It's difficult to digest, and produces phlegm, but river and pond fishes are exempted  from this, as they produce acceptable temperament, freshens the body, increase semen production and fertility, and suit hot conditions.

In salted fish, the best is the most recently salted. Salted fish is hot and dry in nature. The older it gets, the hotter and drier it becomes. Siluridae (similar to catfish) is very viscous. If taken fresh, it softens the stomach. When it is salted, kept for a few days before consumption, it clears the windpipe and makes the voice finer. If it is ground and used as external ointment, it will extract the wastes accumulated inside the body.

Sitting in the salty water left behind silurid, relieves the patient of intestinal ulcer and extracts the harmful substance to the skin surface. It also relieves sciatic nerve ailment, when injected.

The best part of fish meat is closer to its tail, and the soft and fatty fish meat produces freshness and flesh to the body.

Dates

Dates are rich in several Vitamins, minerals and fiber. It contains oil, calcium, sulfur, Iron, potassium, phosphorus, manganese, copper, sodium, copper, zinc and magnesium. It is easy to digest. Amber date is very large in size and one is enough for this purpose. Californian dates are twice the size of amber. The date from Medina is of dark color and contain more Vitamins than any other. This fruit has endless types. Even for sugar patients, there is a particular type called Sukri with naturally less sweet. Mabroom is a juicy date suitable for young people, because it is needed to chew properly. Ajwa date is also less sweet in taste, and can be taken by diabetics. Moreover, Ajwa is best for heart diseases.

• Dates contains 20 different types of Amino acids, that help in digestive process. 
• Energy booster and excellent for physical activity
• Breaking fast by eating dates help avoid over-eating of food. 
• Keeps nervous system healthy due to significant amount of potassium and best for muscle development
• Prevents abdominal cancer
• Reduces the risk of heart stroke and other heart diseases. Taken twice a week improves the health of heart. Use dates soaked for the night, crushed in the morning to strengthen weak hearts.
• Cure for anemia. Take 3 to 5 dates a day (depending upon its size
• Prevents night blindness
• Contains Florine, that helps prevent tooth decay and protects the teeth enamel
• Strengthen bones and fight off painful diseases like osteoporosis
• Reduces allergic reaction and seasonal allergies
• Dilates the muscles of uterus, that's why it's very helpful medicine in child delivery.
• Nutritious tonic for nursing mothers- doesn't let the mother feel tired and compensate the body needs
• Consumed with cucumber paste they help you gain balanced healthy weight, rather than over slimming.
• Laxative food- good for constipation and intestinal disorders and controls diarrhea. Its fiber help healthy bowel movement. Eat overnight soaked dates like a syrup for optimal results in constipation.

Sexual Activity
If taken with milk or made into a shake, it serves as a very helpful food and tonic  for sexual activity. Take 3 to 7 dates (depending upon the capacity of person and the size of dates) and remove their seed. Dip them in milk (preferably goat milk) overnight. Shake them in the morning. You can add cardamom powder or honey for taste and aroma. Cardamom is normally used to balance the hot nature of date fruit. Use this shake lukewarm in winters and cold in summers. It serves as a useful tonic in increasing sexual endurance and reducing sterility caused by sexual disorders. Dates are great natural aphrodisiac as well.

Basil (Tulsi/ Niazbo)

Tulsi or Niazbo, also called Basil, its botanical name Ocimum Tenuiflorum, is used for many culinary and medicinal purposes. It is also referred to as Raihan. It has strong aroma and astringent taste. It is consumed in different forms, i.e. herbal tea, dried powder, fresh leaves, raw form as a juice, or sometimes mixed with ghee.

• Tea of 1/2 teaspoon of dried or fresh leaves in water can help soothe indigestion and alleviate feeling of fullness. 
• Effective for stings and bites. Chew a few leaves and apply over the area and it'll help relieve pain and draw out the venom. 
• Help regulate blood sugar level
• Considered to be an adaptogen- balancing various body processes, reducing stress and facilitating relaxation.
•  It is also a mosquito repellent. Its leaves can also be mixed in stored grains to repel insects.
• Has cardio protective effects on our body
• Mitigate the impact of radiation exposure
• Help relieve problems arising out of headaches, inflammation, common cold, cough, malaria and heart diseases
• Carries anti bacterial properties and used as skin nourishing agent.
• Provides relief from effects of food poisoning

Banana

Banana is hot and wet food in nature. The best quality banana is ripe and sweet, with quite black spots over its peel. If it is eaten before meal, it can harm the stomach and aggravate bile and phlegm. This negative effect can be removed by having banana with honey or brown sugar at this particular time.

• It helps against roughness of chest and lungs
• It relieves cough
• Helps against prostrate and kidney ulcers
• Banana is diuretic (produces urine)
• It stimulates semen production and arouse sexual desire
• It softens the stomach

Banana Peel
The more black spots on your banana skin, the healthier it is for you. These black spots over banana peel generate an entity called TNF (Tumor Necrosis Factor) that carry incredible ability to fight cancer cells. Moreover Banana and its peel contains rich content of Potassium, Magnesium and Manganese, that has amazing ability to whiten your teeth and remove stains from them.
Take off the peel of a ripe banana. Rub the peel from inside section over your teeth gently. Keep going for 2 min. Rinse your mouth. You'll notice the difference instantly. Banana Peel also contains Calcium and Vit D, that will help your teeth be strong. You can also apply peel over your skin to get rid of dark coloring that appears over knuckles and around nails.

Figs

Figs are the best source of fiber. It is recommended to chew figs quite well. Its seeds contain oil that is of significant benefit, specially for cure of constipation and piles. It contains Calcium, Manganese, Potassium, Copper, Magnesium, and Vitamin K, being the one and only fruit in the world to be the richest source of vitamins, either fresh or dry. Best quantity in a day is 2-3 pieces of medium size a day. They are hot food in nature, but not hot enough to harm the body. 

• Best cure for piles and constipation
• Benefits in ailments like hemorrhoids, gout and low blood pressure
• Provides instant energy to body (far better than tea), can be used to get rid of tea addiction
• Increases the plasma anti-oxidant capacity, enabling the blood clotting and blood detoxifying

Remedy for constipation or piles:

Dip 3 pieces of fig in 1 cup water overnight. Drink the water and eat those figs in the morning.

Oats Porridge and Talbinah

How to make Oats Porridge/ Daliya:

For 100 gm of oats you'll take 1 or 1 and a 1/2 litre of water. Mix it and put it in stove. To avoid the porridge from boiling out of the pan, do not close the lid during cooking. After one boil, keep the burner low.
If you are a bit taste conscious, first roast the oats lightly in a pan without any grease. It should be to an extent that you can smell the whiff of roasted oats but do not let its color change. Meanwhile keep the water to boil, beforehand. Add the hot water to roasted grains and then cook as above. (Tip to Remember: Never ever add cold water or cold milk in oats.)
The indication of cooked oats is that when they have completely sucked the water, you'll see bubbles appearing in the porridge.

Recipe for Talbinah
To make this particular dish, you'll follow the above instructions as it is for oats porridge until we reach where we have left above i.e. when it gets completely ready. Add boiled (not cold) milk and cook it for 5 to 7 min. When you see bubbles appearing in it again, it is ready. Add one teaspoon honey in the bowl when it is served.

Above is the original recipe of talbinah, to ensure a whole meal/breakfast through oats, full of nutrients as well as a medicine for sick.

Oats

From headache to cancer, for every possible ailment, oats porridge is the best food cum medicine. Oat has high fiber content and that of excellent quality. It decreases cholesterol and heart fats (that cause heart blockages). It has cardio-protective mechanism. Ladies at menopause stage should add oat porridge/ talbina as their meal 6 days a week. It makes this physically and psychologically difficult period so calm and cool that no medicine can provide you with. For those who suffer from acidity or ulcer, oat is a bliss!
36000 ladies in UK were made a part of research about oats. They were given oats and fruits to eat in their diet. It not only provided protection in their bodies against breast cancer, but the patients of breast cancer also recovered.
A point to be noted is always to take oats lukewarm, in order to let it properly detoxify our body. Taking it cold will not only hurdle its pure benefits from reaching you but also may aggravate cough or flu, because oats is a cold food in its nature.

The oat water (water obtained when oats are boiled) is best medicine for all patients, like typhoid, heart diseases. Dip whole oats overnight in water, and boil it next day in that very same water. Water should be 1:10 or 1:20 to the quantity of oats. Boil until the grain is completely cooked. The water can now be served to the patient as a hot tea like in cold weather illness. In case of hot weather illness, like sun stroke, stomach acidity or ulcer, jaundice, serve the water at room temprature.

A Warning about Cereal Grains
Often the cereal grains you find in markets are not oat itself but merely the husk of oats. Researches prove that husk of any grain when mixed with milk and eaten, does not let calcium to absorb in our bodies. So how can you expect the ready-made packaged cereal grains to provide you with all the benefits above? A little effort in acquiring original oats and making their porridge or talbinah will make your life so much easier and healthier.

Nigella seeds/ Kalonji

Kalonji, that is the seeds of Nigella sativa, are also known as black seeds, black cumin, black caraway and roman coriander. These are the best anti bacterial medicine present in the world.

• It helps against fungal infections.
• Helps against diabetes
• Helps in eliminating tumors, cysts, fibroid, etc.
• Increase the antibodies against cancer
• Best medicine in all types allergies
• Control and fight against inflammation
• Best to use for bronchitis, asthma and poor digestion
• Due to being anti-bacterial, it provides as the best killer for lice

For the purpose of hair health, where you choose to use honey adding some oil into it, the best option for it is nigella seed oil. Of course it also goes the same for killing lice. You can also take kalonji oil and fruit vinegar equal in quantity (according to the volume of your hairs) for this purpose. Keep it that way for an hour. Then wash it away. For best results comb you hairs while washing them under the tap.

Olives

Olives- a food that provides energy at all ages. The myth about this fruit or its oil being hot in nature and harmful at certain stage/ age like children, menopause, menses, etc is wrong. It has no side effect at all. It contains Vitamin E, Iron, Copper and dietary fiber. It is the best food for diet conscious people. 150 gm (1 cup) of olives carry only 150 calories. When we talk about olive here, it refers to the fruit that has a seed in it. We commonly come across this fruit in markets like olives jars with carrots inserted in it, avoid those. If you want these benefits in your olive diet, prefer the olive with seeds. Green olives are better than black olives. Not so green that gives an impression of unripened olive, instead camel color is perfect! Perfectly ripe olive reaches camel color.

• It is an anti-oxidant-helps the body to release toxins. 
• Increase immunity special for heart diseases, protects against them.
• Helps in opening the blockages in heart
• Protects against inflammation, asthma, and arthritis
• Control hot flashes (it also clears the misconception that olives or olive oil is hot in nature)
• Decreases the frequency and intensity of hot flashes

Carrots

Best quality carrot is neither too small or thin, nor too big; It is medium sized. It is strong enough to crack, not flexible, instead breaks in two if you try to bend it. It is straight, not crooked. It is quite juicy and red in color. It does not have much hair on it. Its skin is shiny and smooth otherwise it's not fresh. If your carrot is contrary to what is explained above, or not fresh, you'll not find the below-mentioned minerals and vitamins in it.  

• Carrots contain anti-oxidants that are effective for blood purification and cleansing our body of all the toxins.
• It contains Vitamin A, C, K, B1, B3 and B6- Who needs multivitamin tablets after that!
• Contains dietary fiber, so doesn't cause weight gain and is perfect for those who want to lose weight. 
• Potassium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Magnesium and Ph
• Prevents heart diseases.
• A normal carrot contains 52 calories.
• Protect against cardiovascular and heart diseases. 
• Improves vision, especially night vision.
• Regulates blood sugar level
• Strengthen lungs; it is an antidote for cigarettes, as grapes are for alcohol.

There is a common misconception about the yellow stem in the mid of the carrot. Often people cut it out and throw it away in an impression that eating it might harm us. It is actually the basic fiber present in the carrot, and the whole carrot together with the midsection is truly beneficial for health.

Grapes

A Fruit with tremendous benefits that is eaten both fresh and dry- contains minerals, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, Vitamin C, carbohydrates, and many anti-oxidants, that purify our blood.

Its nature is wet and hot. Best quality grape is big in size, and white grape is better than black. It is categorized among the three fruits that are called ''The King of All Fruits''- Grapes, Dates and Figs.

• It increases the flexibility of heart muscles- preventing the cases where people may need pacemaker to pump their heart on average rate. 
• Fights against cancer specially prevents breast, liver, lungs and prostrate cancer (not a cure for a cancer patient i repeat, but a protection a prevention against it!)
• Decreases cholesterol
• Release toxins from our body
• Strengthen blood vessels in our body- very effective for hemophiliacs, or those who bleed profusely during menses.
• Prevents leakage of blood vessels and inflammation of tissues.
• Helps in controlling liver damage
• Improves vision weakening by old age
• Antidote for alcohol
• Helps against migraine
• Very beneficial for hairs- brings back their original shine and life due to the fatty acids present in grapes.
• Decrease the risk of death from high blood pressure- precisely preventing the brain hemorrhage from HBP

Pomegranates

Pomegranate is that valuable fruit that prevents estrogen from increasing in our body. Estrogen is the hormone that causes cancer, especially breast cancer. If your family has a cancer history, you should be using a lot of pomegranate. In prostrate cancer, daily a pomegranate is very helpful; not a cure but helpful indeed in healing! It is advised to eat pomegranate seeds with its white pulp, because it cleanse the stomach. It is very beneficial for skin; freshens it and mitigate the skin marks, facial acne and pimples.  Pomegranate and grapes are specially recommended for skin pigmentation.

Sweet Pomegranates are hot and wet in nature.

• It is strengthening for stomach because it is a mild constipating agent.
• It is very good for throat, chest and lungs, and relieves cough.
• If eaten with wheat bread (roti), it helps relieving any stomach problem.

Sour Pomegranate are cold and dry in nature. They are also mild constipating agents. 

• It is especially good for overheated stomach.
• Helps produce more urine than any other type of medicines for such purpose. 
• It helps the stomach get rid of its excrement.
• It softens bile, relieves diarrhea and stops the heat producing in liver.
• It strengthens the body organs, helps against bilious shaking, heart problems and ache of the tip of the stomach.

Pomegranate Juice softens the stomach and serves as a natural nutrient for the body. It digests very easily because of being light, and produces heat and air as it breaks down in the stomach. It increases semen production. It is not favorable for those with fever.

If pomegranate juice is extracted with the thin covering of its seed, and mixed with a little honey and cooked until it becomes like an ointment, and then used as eye drops, it will clear the yellow color of the eye and will dissipate the thick wetness. If it is applied on gingival (gums), it will help against the rashes on gums.

Pomegranate flowers help in healing wounds. It is said if one swallows three pomegranate flowers each year, he or she will be immune from ophthalmia (conjunctivitis) for the year.

Raisins

The best quality of raisins is the one with big size, fat in its pulp, with thin skin and small seeds. Raisins in nature are found to be hot and wet in first degree, and their seeds are cold and dry. It is said that their seeds are an ailment while their pulp is the cure.

Raisins are usually similar to the type of grape from which they are made of.  Sweet raisin pulp is more nutritious than grape. Contrary to sweet raisins (hot nature), the sour raisins are cold and mildly constipating. White raisins are even better constipating agent. 

• Raisin pulp possess maturing qualities and is good for windpipe.
• Relieves cough, liver and prostrate pain.
• Boosts the memory power.
• Benefits in throat, chest, lung, liver and prostrate pain. It is better to throw away the seed while eating in that case.
• Eating raisins with its seed strengthens the stomach, spleen and liver and soothes the intestinal cavity.
• Helps release the phlegm, and kills the mouth odor.
• Rich in Anti oxidants.
• Balances the sugar level in blood. 
• Contains various minerals to help strengthen bones and prevent eye diseases.
• Helps create RBC's
• Oleanolic acid in raisins help maintain the health of teeth

Watermelon

The nature of this fruit as a food is cold and wet. So in summers, this fruit keeps the moisture/ hydration of our body balanced. It is 92% of water. It contains Vitamin B, that provides instant energy. For a warm body, this fruit is highly beneficial. But for a body that is naturally cold in nature, it is better to use watermelon along with some ginger or dates to offset the potential harm and acquire its benefits. 
It is better to eat watermelon before meals. According to some doctors, this cleanse the stomach and relieve many ailments.

• It works as a cleanser for stomach and intestines. 
• It departs the stomach even quicker than cucumber and blends with the substances inside. 
• It helps control the blood pressure.
• In summers it helps greatly in regularizing blood circulation. 
• The Beta Carotene in watermelon helps relieve many ailments of eyes and prevents many infections.
• It balances the hormones in our body and strengthens the immune system. 
• It helps making bones strong, builds our defense against cancer and balances the sugar level.
• It helps in releasing the toxic content in our kidneys.

Fenugreek/ Methi

Ibn-al-Qayyim Al-Jawzziyah in his book The Prophetic Medicine says, the early doctors used to say if people come to know of the benefits of methi, they'll sell their jewelry to obtain this valuable food and use it.
The impact/ nature of this food is dry at first degree and hot at second degree.

• Only a few leaves with its stalk are sufficient in a day to relieve constipation. 
• Boiled in water, its tea softens the throat, chest and stomach. It dissolves the phlegm sticking in chest, and expel it.
• It relieves of cough, dryness, asthma and hard breathing.
• It is very beneficial in gastric ulcer and lungs diseases. It is even better to use it with ghee and fanith for intestines.
• It increases sexual drive.
• It relieves flatulence, piles, phlegm and other accumulations intestines.

Honey

The best quality of honey is the one that is white, clear, sweet and light; the one obtained from trees and mountains is better than that grown in cells. The reason for that is, the source of nectar in this case, is of good quality. Taking honey on empty stomach:
''Eat honey because it's good for memory.'' (Az-Zuhri)

• Releases the mucus from your throat
• Relieves the burdened stomach
• Cleans up the body toxics
• Balances the stomach temprature by creating a balanced heat ratio
• All its positive affects on stomach are equally for the liver, kidney and bladder

The people whose medical nature of the body is towards the hotter side or suffer from heart burn etc., may be affected by using honey empty stomach, because honey is hot in itself and may double the heat inside the person's liver. Such people should use honey together with fruit vinegar to mitigate the hot effect, and this will yield tremendous benefits for them. 

Using honey with water is also very beneficial. Take one portion honey and three portion water, and add this to surma (preferably athmad surma). Dip the surma pin first in honey-water and then through surma. Applying surma in this way to your eye relieves headache. However, please pay attention to what you're using is really pure surma, or pure honey to get the best benefits.