Properties of guava and its Ayurvedic treatment

(Introduction)

Guava trees are usually grown in all the states of India. Allahabadi guava of Uttar Pradesh is world famous. It is especially tasty. The height of its tree is 10 to 20 feet. The branches are thin and weak. The part of its stem is smooth, brown in color, covered with thin white bark. The wood under the bark is smooth. Its leaves are light green, rough, 3 to 4 inches long, and rectangular, and the stalk is short.

Guavas are red and yellowish green in color. Guavas with seeds and without seeds and very sweet and sweet-sour types are usually seen. Red guavas are more beneficial than white ones. Guavas with white pulp are sweeter. The weight of the fruit is usually 30 to 450 grams.

It is usually seen that when people go to buy fruits, they think that only fruits like bananas, apples, grapes, and mangoes are full of nutrients. They consider cheap and easily available fruits like guava as useless and fit only for the poor, but in reality it is not so. Guava contains more nutrients than an apple. That is why it is also called the 'apple of the poor.'. Guava is a sweet and laxative (cleanses the stomach by causing diarrhea) fruit and its regular use not only removes stool obstruction, but also destroys vata-pitta, mania (madness), fainting, epilepsy, stomach worms, typhoid and burning sensation etc. In Ayurveda, it is described as cool, sharp, astringent, acidic, and sperm-generating (sperm enhancer). Here the nutrients found in apple and guava are being compared, from which you can guess how much more nutritious guava is.

Properties

Guava contains a lot of vitamin C and sugar. Guava also contains a lot of pectin. Eating guava with its seeds is very useful, due to which the stomach remains clean. Guava is used to make chutneys, jelly, jam, and cheese from the fruit.

(Harmful effects)

Guava is harmful for people with cold natures and those with weak stomachs. In the rainy season, white, threadlike worms are produced inside guava, which can cause stomach pain, flatulence, cholera, and other such disorders in the person who eats it. Its seeds are not easily digested due to being hard, and if they go into the appendix, they can cause appendicitis. Therefore, consumption of its seeds should be avoided. It has two varieties: first, white garbhawali and second, red-pink garbhawali. White variety is sweeter. Grafted guava also has good-quality guavas. They are very big, and hardly 4-5 seeds come out in it. This type of guava is found in Banaras (Uttar Pradesh).

Treatment of various diseases

Dry cough: Roasting guava in hot sand and eating it provides relief in dry, phlegmatic, and whooping cough. Do this experiment three times a day. Take a big guava, take out its pulp, and make a small space inside the guava and fill it with 6-6 grams of ground carom seeds and ground black salt. After this, fill the guava with cloth and put soil on top of it and roast it in the ash of hot cow dung cake. After the guava is roasted, remove the soil and cloth and grind the guava and filter it. Mixing half a gram of it in honey and licking it in the morning and evening gives relief in dry cough.

Cold: To cure a stagnant cold, eat the seedless guava and then close your nose and drink 1 glass of water. When the discharge increases after 2-3 days of use, eat 50-100 grams of jaggery to stop it. Remember—do not drink water afterwards. Eating guava continuously for just 3 days cures chronic cold and cough. In case of a cold that has been stuck for a long time, remove the seeds from a big guava and feed it to the patient and then give fresh water to drink by closing the nose. The stuck cold will be cleared within 2-3 days. After 2-3 days, if you want to stop the nose from running, eat 50 grams of jaggery at night without drinking water.

Chronic Diarrhea: Boiling soft guava leaves and drinking it cures chronic diarrhea. If there is mucus in the diarrhea, the intestines are swollen, and there are wounds, then eating 250 grams of guava daily for 2-3 months continuously gives relief in diarrhea. Guava contains tannic acid, whose main function is to heal wounds. It heals the wounds of the intestines and makes the intestines healthy.

For knee pain: Grinding soft guava leaves and applying it on the painful areas of arthritis is beneficial.

Mouth ulcers: Consuming guava after meals daily gives relief from ulcers. Mouth ulcers are cured by mixing catechu in guava leaves and chewing them like betel leaves.

Arthritis: To cure arthritis pain, grind 5-6 new guava leaves, add a little black salt to it, and consume it daily. The patient gets relief.

Malaria: Consumption of guava is beneficial in malaria fever. Regular consumption also provides relief in Tijara and Chauthia fever. Drinking guava and apple juice reduces fever. Eating guava is beneficial in malaria.

Heart: Chutney made by removing seeds from guava fruits and chopping them finely and mixing it with sugar on low flame is very beneficial for the heart and also cures constipation.

Chronic cold: By eating only guava for 3 days, the complaint of chronic cold is cured.

Mouth disease: In mouth disease, barley, guava leaves, and acacia leaves. Burning all these and filling the smoke in the mouth cures the throat and eliminates the pimples in the mouth.

Diabetes: Put ripe guava on fire and take it out, make its bharta, add salt, black pepper, and cumin seeds as per requirement, and consume it. This gives relief from diabetes.