Six Tastes of Food

1. The Sweet Taste - The sweet taste increases bodily tissues, nourishes and comforts the body and relieves hunger. Most grains, fruits are of sweet taste. Almost all foods contain some degree of sweetness. This is most dominant taste of all our forms of sustenance.
2. The Sour Taste - The sour taste is used in small quantities by everyone. It aids in digestion and the elimination of waste from the body. Many fruits like lemon, limes, grape fruit, berries are considered to be sour with some sweetness. All fermented foods like soya sauce, yogurt, pickles are sour foods.
3. The Pungent Taste - The pungent taste stimulates appetite, maintains the metabolism and balance of secretions in the body. Spices such as garlic, ginger, asafoetida (hing) , peppers and all volatile oils are considered pungent.
4. The Salty Taste - The salty taste cleanses bodily tissues, makes the system limber and activates digestion. This taste exist in all salts and seaweeds. Most watery vegetables like zucchini (tori type), cucumber and  green leafy vegetables are naturally high in salt.
5. The Bitter ( कडवा )Taste - The bitter taste is good for everyone in medicinal quantities. It detoxifies the body, tones the organs, cleanses the liver and control skin ailments. This taste exist in all bitter food like turmeric, aloe vera, neem leaves, bitter gourd (karela), lettuce. 
6. The Astringent ( स्तंभक )Taste - As with bitter, the astringent taste is to be used medicinally. Astringency heals the body by its constrictive nature. It reduces secretion and is the most stark of the six tastes. Some examples of astringent foods are tannin, teas made from barks of trees, legumes. 

Include all six tastes of food in daily diet.

‎7 Dangerous acts after a meal

I have seen many people following wrong practice after eating meal and has hazardous effect on body. 

1. Don’t smoke - Experiments from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher)

2. Don’t eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. There fore take fruits 1 -2 hours after meal or 1 hour before meal.

3. Don’t drink tea - Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the protein content in the food we consume to be hinder thus difficult to digest.

4. Don’t loosen your belt - Loosening the belt after meal will easily cause the intestine to 
be twisted and blocked.

5. Don’t bathe - Bathing after meal will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs and body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease, this will weaken the digestive system in our stomach.

6. Don’t walk about - People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you 

will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake.

7. Don’t sleep immediately - The food we intake will not be to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric and infection in our intestine.

Dhania

The Latin name for Coriander is Coriander Sativum.

Health benefits of coriander  (Home remedies) -

•          Coriander helps to prevent digestive disorders such as indigestion and flatulence.

•          Coriander leaves helps to increase appetite and helps to stimulate hunger in anorexic  patients.

•          Coriander leaves along with heeng, rock salt and cumin seed when mixed with buttermilk and taken after meals, helps to improve digestion and prevents abdominal distention.  

•          Regular intake of coriander tea also helps to lower the blood cholesterol levels.

•          Coriander seeds when soaked in water overnight and then taken along with buttermilk early in the morning helps in dysentry.

•          The juice of coriander is also used for treating nausea, and morning sickness.

•          Coriander is used in the treatment of colitis and some of the liver disorders. Coriander seeds also help to reduce acid peptic disease.

•          Coriander seeds also help to reduce body fever by inducing urination.

•          It is used in

•         improving appetite,
•         relieving constipation and flatulence.

·         Coriander seed oil is an aromatic stimulant, a carminative and an appetizer.

·         It helps in treating-

•         piles, headache and swellings.
•         colic, rheumatism and neuralgia;
•          mouth ulcers (when applied in the form of seed paste) and other ulcers.