Importance of curry leaves in weight loss and other health related issues

Curry leaves, known as kadi patta in hindi, is one of the common seasoning ingredients and familiar in Indian cooking especially in south India. Curry leaves are added almost in all dishes not only to flavor up dishes but also for its amazing curative properties. It is loaded with some vital nutrients such as carbohydrates, fiber, calcium, phosphorous, irons and vitamins like vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin E. Curry leaves help in your heart functioning better and fight against infections. It is also beneficial for your hair and skin. Also, it has the ability to control or maintain your blood sugar that helpful for diabetics too.

The Nutritional Value of 100grams Curry Leaves

Benefit for weight loss

Curry leaf is one of the best ayurvedic remedies from which we can get rid of accumulated fat in the body. It eliminates harmful toxins and fats from the body and helps to improve digestion. People who wish to reduce their weight successfully, need to consume 12-15 fresh curry leaves in the morning and drink warm water after that.

Improved Digestion

If we talk about digestion, we see that most of people often complaint for poor digestion. Curry leaves bring a benefit to the digestion, it definitely helps to fix the indigestion problems very effectively once we start to take it regularly. The curry leaves contain the carbazole alkaloids which plays the key role in treatment of diarrhea. For this treatment we can make paste or juice of curry leaves. It has the herbal flavor helps to ease the irritation in the intestinal walls which indirectly helps to get an easy digestion. These leaves are good for pregnancy stage too as during this stage a woman faces a lot of discomforts like morning sickness, vomiting tendency etc. to reduce this discomforts, you can consume the water that has boiled curry leaves.

Body Detoxification

The curry leaves are natural detoxifier have the ability to cleanse the body and remove the harmful toxins. So if you consume curry leaves on a daily basis it will help you to reduce your body fat or abnormal body weight as detoxification prevents your body from bloating, helps you in deep breathing. The use of the curry leaves in the form of juice, soup and beverage daily helps to detox your body faster. The wastes will be made to come out in the form of the excretory wastes along with the forms of urine and the feces. Curry leaves also reduce the risk of allergies and reactions to any food in your body.

Reduce the risk of heart diseases

Obesity has directly relation with fat and cholesterol and Risk factors like high cholesterol and triglyceride levels may increase your risk of developing heart disease. Consuming curry leaves helps to burn the bad cholesterol and the excessive body fats. It prevents the formation of bad cholesterol i.e. LDL by preventing cholesterol oxidation. This helps in an increase in the levels of good cholesterol or HDL. The real secret lies in how do we consume it.

How do we prepare curry leaves tea for losing weight?

Curry leaves are one of the best remedies in losing weight as discussed above. You must have curry leave tea on an empty stomach in the morning. It is one of the simplest and benefiting way to get rid of unwanted weight. Few ingredients are required and the method of preparation is quite simple.

Required ingredients

• 30- 40 green curry leaves
• Water
• Lemon (optional)
• Honey (optional)

Technique

• Boil around 300- 350 ml of water and transfer this boiled water in a glass
• Add 30 to 40 curry leaves in the hot water and let them soak for some time.
• After a few hours, strain the tea to remove the curry leaves.
• You can add honey/ cinnamon and lemon to improve the taste.(Adding cinnamon increases your metabolic rate of the body and helps in burning fat.)
• The curry leaves tea is ready to be consumed.

"If you consume it on an empty stomach then it works more effectively."