Immunity booster homemade herbal drink | Butterfly pea flower tea | Aparajita flower blue and purple kashaya
The health benefits of Shanku Pushpa according to Ayurveda :
* Shankhpushpi is an Ayurvedic medicine and all the parts of the plants like leaves, flowers, roots have health benefits.
* It's tea is very effective to improve memory and intelligence.
* It is useful in cold, cough and headaches.
* It has anti-ageing properties and it improves life longevity.
* It will also help in improving the skin quality and the overall strength.
* It is very effective in getting good sleep and relieves anxiety and depression.
* In this tea, we are adding ginger, pepper and cinnamon powder along with honey.
Benefits of ginger in fighting covid 19 by building our Immunity :
* Ginger is supposed to cure lung infections including cold and cough and helps in boosting the immunity.
* Ginger has anti-inflammatory properties that helps in removing toxins from the respiratory tract.
Cinnamon powder :
* According to reports, one of the important components of Cinnamon i.e. Cinnamaldehyde may help fight various kinds of infection.This aromatic spice is a rich source of antioxidants which helps in giving a boost to your immunity system.
Pepper powder :
* Piperine, an alkaloid present in pepper, could bind to novel coronavirus proteins and stop it from entering human cells, says IIT (ISM) study.
Lemon :
* Lemons are rich in Vitamin C, a natural antioxidant that improves the immune system.
Honey :
* It has also been found that honey and its main ingredients can be effective against infectious diseases. There is strong evidence that honey with potential anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory activities can be effective in various ways against viral infectious diseases and also helps to strengthen the immune system.
Ingredients :
- Shanku Pushpa - Aparajita flowers 8-10
- Dry Ginger powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Pepper powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Cinnamon powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Honey 1 tablespoon
- Lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon
Recipe video :
Procedure :
- Pick and wash 8 to 10 fresh Shanku Pushpa flowers.
- Heat water in a vessel.
- When the water starts boiling put in the flowers and boil for five minutes.
- Next add cinnamon powder, pepper powder and dry ginger powder and boil for another five minutes.
- Switch off the heat and add the honey.
- Pour in the glass.
- You may drink it directly or to add some zest and also vitamin C, add half a teaspoon of lemon juice. Now the juice changes colour from blue to purple.
- If you add jaggery, the juice will change the colour to green.
