Ingredients: Organic Desi Groundnuts, Coconut water.
Storage Info: Keep in a cool, dry place.
Common Names: turmeric, turmeric root, Indian saffron
Binomial Name: Arachis hypogaea
Usage Info :
1. It has been used by Ayurvedic healers as medicine taken internally in the form of fresh juice, oiled tea, tinctures, or powder, and topically as creams, lotions, pastes, and ointments.
2. There are many ancient Ayurvedic formulas utilizing turmeric. Milk boiled with turmeric and sugar was a popular cold remedy and turmeric juice was used to help heal wounds, bruises, and leech bites.
3. A paste made from turmeric, lime, and salt was commonly applied to sprains and inflamed joints.
4. Smoke made by sprinkling turmeric over burnt charcoal was used to relieve scorpion stings within a few minutes that the affected area is exposed to smoke.
5. Inhaling the fumes of burning turmeric was also used commonly to release copious amounts of mucous and provide instant relief from congestion. The fumes also were believed to help in hysteric fits.
6. A pinch of turmeric was also used as an insect repellent in the kitchen.
7. A paste made of turmeric alone or with neem leaves was used for ringworm, itching, eczema, and any other parasitic skin condition.
8. The Charakra Samhita section on Therapeutics states that turmeric, black pepper, long pepper, and ox bile was a common remedy for consumed poison or snake bites, up until the last stage.
9. The Charakra Samhita also provides a traditional remedy for jaundice: turmeric, triphala, neem bark, bala, licorice cooked in milk and ghee of buffalo. If this did not work and there is “found residue of morbidity still lodged in the body”, inhalation therapy was indicated.
10. Cigars were made from turmeric paste, cinnamon, castor plant root, lac, red arsenic, deodar, yellow orpiment, and nardus, smeared with ghee and smoked.
11. Inhalation of the fumes of barley paste with ghee was also a treatment for jaundice.
12. Hemorrhoids (piles) were treated with an ointment of turmeric, hemp leaves, onions, and warm mustard oil or linseed oil, applied externally when the hemorrhoids are painful and protruding.
13. Pastes of turmeric were used for smallpox, chickenpox, shingles, ulcers, conjunctivitis, skin blemishes, malaria, and applied to the cut placenta after the birth of a child.