Health Benefits of Curry

Health Benefits of Curry

Being a seasoning ingredient, curry leaves are added to almost every dish for the enhancement of its taste as well as flavour too. Though we usually throw all of curry leaves instead of eating the same but everyone should know that curry leaves provide us different types of health benefits. In brief we can say that curry leaves are packed with different types of ingredients. 

Some of the health benefits which we can avail from the curry leaves are described in brief in the following:

·         Prevents anaemia: Anaemia is usually caused due to lack of iron as well as less absorption power of iron. Being rich in iron as well as folic acid curry leaves help us a lot to get recovered from anaemia. Curry leaves not only act as a rich source of iron but also the folic acid increases the absorption of the iron in our body. That’s why curry leaves can be treated as one of the best medicine to cure anaemia permanently.

·         Keeps liver healthy: It is recently published in AsianJournal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, that the curry leaves play an important role to maintain the health of our liver. A potent as well as powerful anti-oxidant named kaempferol is present in the curry leaves which protects our liver from oxidative stress as well as harmful toxins which produced in our body due to occurrence of different types of metabolic activities.

·         Controls blood sugar level: According to the published article in the journal, Journal of Plant food for Nutritionit can be said that curry leaves have an immense effect on the control of the blood sugar level in our body. This is caused due to the effect of curry leaves extract on insulin activity.Apart from this as curry leaves contains high amount of fibre it not only improves the digestion system but also alters the process of fat absorption. As a result of the above phenomenon it helps us to lose weight also.

·         Prevent cardiac disease: According to a study which was published in ‘Journal of Chinese Medicine’, being rich in several types of anti-oxidants the curry leaves help us to prevent the oxidation of cholesterol which finally result into the increase of the HDL (Good cholesterol) and thus protects us from cardiac disease as well as atherosclerosis.

·         Improves digestion process: Being carminative in nature, it acts as a highly effective medicine against indigestion. Apart from this it also facilitates the proper excretion which keeps our body healthy.

·         Reduces the symptoms of diarrhoea: As the curry leaves have mild laxative properties, it can be used as a great medicine to cure diarrhoea. Carbazole alkaloid which is present in the curry leaves has an anti-inflammatory as well as anti-bacterial property which helps us to cure upset stomachs. Apart from this according to the Ayurveda, curry leaves can be considered as a great remedy for all the three ‘doshas’ of our body and reduce the amount of ‘pitta’ in our stomach.