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Ponnac Unanka's Articles in Nutrition

  • Discover The Basic Uses Of Local Spices In Treatment Of Diseases As Well As Food Sauces
    Wild pepper {Piper umbellatum} is of plant family Piperacea. The roots, leaves and fruits are used to cure rheumatism; inflammatory tumours; stomach pains, ascites and anasarea. The fruits are used for diuretic and rubefacient purposes, and also against rheumatic pains. Leaves are boiled with palm kernel oil as a laxative for pregnant women. Leaf infusion is used as a remedy for stomach pains, anasarea and ascites in adults.
  • Discover The Use Of Local Cooking Spices And Its Functional Values As Alternative Medicine
    Red Onion {Allium cepa} is of plant family Liliaceae.The leaves and bulb are used for asthma, convulsion, hypotension, ulcers, cough, cold and skin infections. Onion bulb serves as a stimulant and expectorant. Generally antimicrobial, it is usually crushed and its juice used against skin infections and insect bites. The roasted onion or its compress is used as poultice for tumours, ulcers, earaches and piles.
  • Discover Some Hidden Secrets Of Local Spices And How It Fights Diseases As Well As Other Ailments
    Extracts of the pungent leaves are used as an emetic, carminative, purgative and revulsive against pains and rheumatism. The powder of the seeds is used to prepare special pepper food sauces given to lactating mothers. The fruit extract is also used to aid conception and as a vermifuge for round worms. Pergularia daemia of the plant family Asclepiadaceae. The leaves, stem and root barks are used for cough, fever, catarrh and diarrhoea in infants.
  • Discover How To Spice Up Your Life With Local Food Spices
    Discover how to Spice up your life with local spices, and how 23 local spices have been successfully used to beat cold-related ailments. AS the rains and winter gather momentum, the weather will become bitterly cold, giving rise to cold-related ailments like cough and catarrh, among others. However a total of 23 plant species and condiments are successfully used to beat the cold.
  • Discover How Processed Foods Or Junk Foods Has Been Proven To Cause Cancer
    Food is necessary not just only for energy, but for growth and development. But there are many dangers attached to the regular consumption of some certain foods like ''junk foods'' especially in women.

    Junk or processed foods are those foods that were neccessary for makers to preserve with artificial additives. “All those foods that are canned or bottled are preserved with some artificial additives.

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