CCT for health! A Shameless Plug for 3 Staple Indian Curry Spices results in a 90% effective conversion rate!

CORIANDER : Coriander use has a medicinal plant has been reported since 1500 B.C. both as a spice and as a medicine. Used extensively as a base for nearly ALL curries in India. It aids digestion, reduce flatulence and improves appetite. It helps relieving spasms within the gut and counters the effects of nervous tension.

Other little known secret uses:
Coriander is also chewed to sweeten the breath, especially after consumption of garlic or onion.
It is applied externally as a lotion for rheumatic pain.
Coriander essential oil is used in the manufacture of perfumes, cosmetics and dentifrices.

CINNAMON --Who does not already love cinnamon ? In India cinnamon is an integral part of both hot spicy curries or sweet desserts. Garam masala worthy enough to get on the festival banquet must have cinnamon in it.

Other little known secret uses:
Whether in pumpkin pie, cinnamon rolls, raisin bread, and cinnamon sugar topping, but there are healthier ways to reap the benefits of this power spice: Add it to your coffee, sprinkle it on oatmeal, stir it into peanut butter for celery sticks, and dash on sweet potatoes or carrots.
While it brings out (and warms up) the flavors in the foods it is paired with, cinnamon will also help keep your arteries healthy, manage blood sugar levels, and lower cholesterol.

TURMERIC ROOT POWDER- Brightly-colored turmeric comes packaged from Mother Nature as "Made in India for the world". Ubiquitous as the reason for the yellow in curries, many a time this amazing medicinal spice is used in place of its rich cousin - saffron.

Coming from the same family of plants that are now proven to can inflammation in arthritis patients new research is now showing that the spice can and may block the formation of some cancers..

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Chicago - Winds of Hope Cit. My City!

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Lentils, India style - Red Black or Yellow, an easy CURRY for even sliced bread!

Even though not as famous globally "Tandoori Chicken", Dal and Roti are staple foods in every Indian household. And the good news: it is healthy beyond measure! Ease your soul with foods like dal that comes with all the goodness of protein rich lentils. Humble and comforting recipe to start your day or night! Dal and Rice or Dal and Roti even, Dal and Buns - eaten everyday to satisfy and satiate more than just hunger pangs, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner the humble lentil has become ubiquitous with Indian cuisine. Each family has their own recipe for the making of the 'dal -curry' and their own favorite main dish - either hot cooked soft white rice, or a fluffy 'chappati" ( a wheat based flat bread) or a hot baked bun! Growing up, mine was no different, and I've carried on the tradition with my own family. I love the ease of making this simple, rustic dish and eating it any time, by itself or making it an accompaniment to another dish an

Partake of the beautiful Lotus to inspire your mind. It sedates and seduces..

Lotus - Its God's favorite flower...Its mysticism may also be linked to the mild narcotic or sedative effects from flowers that are eaten, smoked or steeped in wine and drank. Also called the world's most beautiful flower, the lotus is the most sacred, and it seems there never was a time when man did not adore it.....Of all the myriad buds and blooms, the most revered and esteemed--by God and man--is the magnificent lotus in the sub continent and all across China and Japan. According to Buddhism and Hinduism, within each human inhabiting the earth is the spirit of the sacred lotus. It represents eternity, purity and divinity and is widely used as a symbol of life, fertility, ever-renewing youth and to describe feminine beauty, especially the eyes. One of the most common metaphysical analogies compares the lotus' perennial rise to faultless beauty from a miry environment to the evolution of man's consciousness--from instinctive impulses to spiritual liberation.

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