Sugarcane is one of the important crops of India. It is cultivated in warm areas. It has many varieties- red, white, black, pondrak and manogupta. Sugarcane health benefits make it valuable for both farmers and consumers.
Sugarcane is a common plant. Its stem is 6-12 ft tall, round and strong with knots. The leaves are flat, 3-4 ft long and 2-3 inch wide. The flowers grow in bunches that have many branches. Plant flowers in rainy season and fruits come in winter.
The sugarcane juice contains sucrose, bitumen, fat, water and guanine, which is a water soluble white crystalline, powder and calcium oxalate.It cures pitta, promotes physical strength, improves potency, and causes cough. It is sweet, smooth, cool, enhances production of urine.
Benefits of sugarcane
Sugarcane health benefits Stomach pain
Take 5 kg sugarcane juice in an earthen pot powder. Mix them all and give this to the patient every and cover the pot with cloth smeared in mud. After a week, open the pot and strain the juice. After a month, take 10 gm of this juice and mix 3 gm rock salt in it, warm it and give this to the patient. It immediately cures stomach pain.
SugarCane Health Benefits in Indigestion
Cook the juice on fire or under sun. When it starts boiling, remove it from fire, and store it in a glass container or bottle. Give this after a week. It is an excellent digestive medicine. It is tasty and thus enhances the taste and interest in the food. It can also be used for gargles as it clears the throat. It can be given in quantity of 10-20 0 gm.
SugarCane Health Benefits in Jaundice
Keep a piece of sugarcane outside the house in open overnight so that it gets covered with dew. Next day morning, after brushing the teeth, suck the sugarcane. It shows results within 4 days.
Tubercular cough
Cook 1 litre fresh juice with 250 gm gbee till only ghee is left. Give 10 gm of this ghee to the patient every morning and evening.
Medicated wine
Cook the fresh juice till it is reduced to half. Let it cool and then add half the amount of honey in it and then store it in an earthen pot. Or take 12 parts of fresh sugarcane juice, 1 part jaggery and 2 parts honey. Mix them all and keep in a glass container. Add sugar in it. Store it for 2 months to prepare the medicated wine.
Typhoid fever
Take 1 part vinegar and 3 parts water. Apply this mixture on the body. It is beneficial in chicken pox and typhoid fever.
Acute Rhinitis
Take 10 gm jaggery, 40 gm curd, 3 gm chilli Powder. Mix them all and give this to the patient every morning for 3 days. It cures dry cough, foul smell from nose and mouth, throat infection, sore throat, bronchial asthma and cold.
Headache
Take 10 gm jaggery and 6 gm sesame seeds. Grind them with milk and add 6 gm ghee in it. Warm it and give this to the patient.
Goitre
Give 2-4 gm hared powder to be taken orally followed by fresh juice of sugarcane. It cues goitre.
Bronchial Asthma
Take 3-6 gm jaggery and mix it with equal quantities of amount of mustard oil and give this to the patient. It cures bronchial asthma. Increases lactation: Grind 5-10 gm root of sugarcane and give this to the patient along with kanji. It enhances milk production.
Blood in stools
Mix equal quantities of sugarcane and pomegranate juices and give this to the patient. Dyspepsia: Mix cumin seeds with jaggery and give this to the patient. It enhances digestive power, cures cold and cough and gastric problems.
Miscellaneous disorders
Take 5 gm jaggery, 5 gm ginger root or harad or peepal powder. Take any of these and give 10 gm to the patient with hot milk every morning and evening, It cures swelling, oedema, acute throat problems, mouth problems, bronchitis and bronchial asthma, loss of interest in food, chronic rhinitis, indigestion, fever, piles, sprue and irritable bowel syndrome, and several other acidity related disorders.
Burning sensation
Dissolve jaggery in water and strain the solution through cloth over 25 times and give this strained solution to the patient. It cures burning sensation. It also controls the excessive high temperature in fever.
some other health benefits of sugar cane
- sugarcane juice controls nasal bleeding.
- Take sugarcane juice before meals. It cures pitta.
- Give its juice with honey mixed in it. It cures burning sensation due to pitta.
- Consuming its fresh juice with meals causes stiffness in the body.
- Old jaggery (sugarcane) with ginger root powder cures all gastric related disorders.
- Take a piece of sugarcane and a piece of catechu. Keep them in mouth and suck them slowly. It cures boils in mouth.
- Grind barley stem with fresh juice and give this to patient. It cures dermatoses.
