Benefits of Dates
June 16, 2009
Dates
Dates are one among the highly nutritive fruits and are very popular in Middle East. The delicious fruit is rich in natural sugar and the sugar is available as fructose and glucose and can be absorbed easily. The juicy fruits are rich in iron, potassium, calcium, sulphur, copper, manganese, magnesium, folic acid, vitamin-B6, volatile oils and fibers. Dates which are having good health benefits are used as remedy for many diseases.
Benefits of dates
1. Dates are used as a remedy for sexual weakness. In order to improve the sexual stamina you can soak the dates fruit in goat’s milk overnight and can drink the same milk in the morning after grinding the dates along with some cardamom seed and honey.
2. Dates can help you to improve the hemoglobin content of your blood as it contains lots of iron. It is also found to ideal to improve eye sight and also prevent night blindness.
3. Due to the presence of natural fibers and due to the richness of nutrients, dates can prevent abdominal cancer. Because of this fiber content dates are used as good laxative. Dates are also found to strengthen weak heart.
4. Dates are good remedy for preventing the decay of the teeth as they are rich in fluorine. Fluorine will help you to build the enamel for your teeth and thus gives you strong teeth.
5. Dates which are enriched with nicotine can be used to keep the intestine healthy. The nicotine content in dates will help you to get rid of the harmful bacteria and at the same time will allow the growth of a colony of beneficial bacteria.
6. Dates are a good remedy for obesity as they are rich in readily available sugars and nutrients and hence can quench the hunger easily. The sugars present in dates will stimulate the intestine and which in turn will reduce the hunger and then the food in take.
7. Dates are given to expecting mothers to strengthen their uterine wall and also to promote dilatation at the time of delivery. Dates also help to bring down the excessive bleeding at the time of delivery. In breast feeding mothers dates will make their milk rich in nutrients and thus makes the baby healthy and resistant to diseases.
8. Dates syrup is a good home remedy for alcoholic intoxication. It is also a revitalizing tonic for all age group.
9. Being rich in calcium dates can be given to patients who had fractures and also for them who had undergone surgery, as dates will help them to rebuild their structure.
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