Gooseberry: Uses, Benefits - Impressive Health Benefits of Amla

Gooseberry (family Grossulariaceae), it is a small green fruit and edible fruits, a ayurvedic medicine. In India, we can see light green colour. The berries of those in the genus Ribes (sometimes placed in the genus Grossularia). gooseberries are available mainly green, others red, orange, yellow, white, purple. They thrive in moist heavy clay soil in cool humid climates.

Indian gooseberry is known by two scientific names Phyllanthus emblica and Emblica officinalis. It’s also commonly called amla.

The fruits are about the size of a small tomato with a pit and soft peel. Their taste has been mixed sour, bitter astringent. Gooseberries are loaded with fiber and vitamin c making them highly antioxidant content. It's been used in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years.

A small Amla Tree

It is a small Nutrition fruit it offer lot's of health benefits. Gooseberries are mainly used for medicine properties and cooking purpose.

Just 1 cup (150 grams) of gooseberries contains.

• Calories: 66
• Protein: 1 gram
• Fat: less than 1gram
• Carbs: 15gram
• Fiber: 7gram
• Vitamin c: 46%daily value( DV)
• Vitamin B5: 9% of the DV
• Vitamin B6: 7%of the DV
• Copper: 12%of the DV
• Manganese: 9%of the DV
• Pottasium: 6%of the DV

Health benefits of Gooseberry

1. Prevent cancer
2. Loaded vitamin c
3. Good for your heart

• Prevent Cancer

It is a rich source of antioxidants content. It helps to prevent some cancer. Gooseberries contain several phytochemicals with anticancer properties.

• Loaded vitamin c

Goosberries loaded with vitamin c. one person need vitamin c get in goosberries. goosberries large portion include vitamin c. vitamin c is a powerful antioxidant. vitamin c helps to maintain good body and helps to wound healing.

• Good for your heart

Goosberries contain large amount of fiber and pottasium content. it is strongly helpfull reduce risk for heart disease. Heart related other diseases can prevent through goosberries because, it is a excellent source of fiber and pottasium.

Gooseberries have large amount of health benefits. it helps to skin and hair condition. contain antioxidant content it can prevent more diseases. it easy to add our diet and good for our brain. over dose of all medicine lead to other problems.

Home remedies

In ayurveda goosberries have more important. it is  a remedy for more diseases. it loaded with Vitamin c and antioxidant content. goosberries use do more home remedies.

• For Body flourish

Drinking gooseberry juice and honey on a daily basis will make the body flourish.

• Cure diabetes

Add turmeric powder to green gooseberry juice daily Consuming one ounce twice a day will cure diabetes.

• Relive shortness of breath

Consuming gooseberry juice and long pepper(thippalli) powder will relieve shortness of breath.

 

• Relive sourness, peptic ulcer

Take 15 grams of gooseberry pulp and add it to 100 ml of milk and consume it daily to relieve acidity, sourness and peptic ulcer.

• Helps to overcome cancer

If turmeric powder is added to gooseberry juice and consumed daily, even the cells destroyed by cancer will get revival.

• Cure mouth ulcer

Black cumin powder mixed with green gooseberry juice can cure mouth ulcers.

• For long life and boost immunity power

Sesame seeds and crushed gooseberry and eaten daily is good for long life and boost immunity power. 

• Helps to cure allergies

Goosberries powder mixed  in ghee and eaten daily. It Helps to cure allergies.

• Good for urinery obstruction

Grind gooseberry and applied on the abdomen is good for urinary obstruction.

• For dhathu pushti and intelligence

Gooseberry steamed and boiled in jaggery and eaten four goosberry a day is special for Dhatupushti and intelligence.

• Get good sleep

remove gooseberry seed and grind it like butter in pagananjhi and place it on your forehead, you will get good sleep.

Gooseberries In food preparation

It use made into jellies, pickle and add in fish curry other desserts like honey gooseberries combination. Today available like powders, dried berries and other styles. Goosberries use in kitchen have more varieties. it can give super taste to food and it have lots of health benefits.

How to prepare:

Then Nellikka / Honey gooseberries 

It is mouth watering and give more health benefits item. It can prevent some diseases.

Ingredients

• Gooseberries  - 1/2kg
• Honey - 200 gram
• Jaggery - 1/2
• Cardamom - 4 nos
• Cloves - 4 nos
• Cinnamon - small piece
• lemon - half portion 

Method of preparation

1. wash and strain then change to a dry place
2. take steamer and gooseberries all are put into this
3. Flame on steamer place into stove top. wait for 5 minute steaming
4. this time take pot and put Jaggery. stir until dissolve
5. Add cardamom, cinnamon, cloves mixed powder
6. add our main ingredient goosberry into this pot and stir well, flame off
7. Kepp asaid for cool. after change to glass bottle and add honey then mix. must sure glass bottle tightly close

Taste enjoyed after 3 or 4 days.