BENEFITS OF MINT JUICE

How To Make Mint Juice

Mint Juice is a health drink which can be prepared quickly any time. The recipe involves Lemon Juice and seasonings like Pepper, Cumin/Jeera Powder and Dry Mango powder. These seasonings provide additional taste and carry their own health benefits when used moderately.

• Mint Leaves or Pudina Leaves – 2 tsp
• Lemon Juice – 1 tsp
• Sugar powder – 3 tsp
• Cumin / Jeera powder – 1/4 tsp
• Pepper powder – 1/4 tsp
• Dry Mango Powder or Amchur powder – 2 pinches
• Salt

Method

1. Take handful of Mint/Pudina leaves and grind in mixer grinder with enough water. If you prefer, you may use a filter to filter out the ground leaves to obtain Mint juice.
2. Take a vessel, add all the ingredients including the Pudina liquid/paste. Add suitable quantity of water and mix all ingredients well. Stir with a spoon.
3. Keep the Pudina/Mint Juice in the refrigerator for an hour.

Serve Pudina Juice or Mint Juice chilled.

Mint Juice Health Benefits

Mint Juice with Lemon Juice acts as an appetizer. Mint helps control acidity, indigestion and vomiting.
Concentrated Mint Juice, when applied on skin, controls blackheads and pimples, reduces acne and itching. Application of mashed Mint leaves on skin also helps reduce dryness of skin and rejuvenates it. Drinking Mint Juice during summer promotes healthy skin and helps beat summer heat.

Health Benefits of Mint

• Mint stimulates digestion and is an anti spasmodic, relieves gas, menstrual spasms, reduces nausea and morning sickness in pregnancy.
• Mint relieves cough, cold, fever, rheumatic pains, earaches, sinus and throat ailments, food poisoning and travel sickness.
• Mint boosts immunity, reduces the growth of fungus and bacteria.
• Mint cleanses the blood, relieves sprains and muscle cramps.
• Mint has shown anti cancer properties in animal studies though its benefit on cancer in humans is yet to be fully established.

Uses In Health Conditions

For The Face

Grind mint leaves and apply on the face at night. It removes pimples, boils and makes the face glow.

For Stomachache

Take dry mint and sugar in equal quantities. Grind. Take 2 tsp of this with water.

For Cold, Cough And Fever

Take 10 leaves of mint, 5 black peppercorns and salt to taste. Add to water. Boil and steep for 5 minutes. Drink when tepid. Do this 3 times a day.

For Cold, Asthmatic Cough & Weak Digestive Power

Take 1/4 cup mint juice with 1/4 cup water three times a day.

In Vomiting, Diarrhoea And Cholera

Drink 1/2 cup of mint juice every 2 hours.

In Gas

• Early morning drink a glass of water to which 25 ml of mint juice & 30 ml of honey has been added.
• Boil 60 gms mint, 10 gms ginger cut in small pieces and 8 gms ajwain in 250 ml of water. After boiling add 1/2 cup milk and jaggery to taste. This relieves gas and strengthens digestive power.
• Take 1/4 cup mint juice in 1/2 cup water. Add juice of 1/2 a lemon. Mix well and drink.

For Worms

Drink mint juice.

For Scorpion Bite

Apply a poultice of crushed mint leaves. Also drink mint juice with added water.

In Hiccups

• Suck on some mint leaves or lemon.
• Mint leaves and sugar can be chewed too for relief

For Removing Body Heat

To 10 gms mint add 20 gms jaggery and 200 ml water. Boil and strain. Cool before drinking.

For Glowing Skin

Take 1 tsp curd and 1 tsp crushed mint leaves. Mix a few drops of lemon juice. Mix all these well and apply on the face. Wash off after 20 minutes with cold water.

In Morning Sickness

Mix 1 tsp mint juice and 1 tsp ginger juice and 2 tsp honey. Take 2 times a day.

As A Mouth & Breath Freshener

Boil mint leaves in water. and cool. Gargle with this water.

For Abdominal Pain

To a glass of milk add few mint leaves. Boil. Drink when cool enough.