Dates Health Benefits

Date is an effective home remedy for Constipation, Impotence, Excessive Bleeding and Nervous Disorders. The date tree is a tall palm and grown in many parts of the world, including the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Spain, Italy, Mexico and California. The dates are a fleshy, oval reddish or yellowish brown fruits with a hard single furrowed seeds. Dates maybe considered as an almost ideal food, providing a wide range of essential nutrients like sugar, protein, fat and mineral products like copper, sulphur, iron, magnesium and fluoric acid. Dates are rich in fiber and potassium.

The date leaves have hepato, protective and aphrodisiac properties. The date flowers have purgative, expectorant, hepatic and febrifuge properties. The fruits are cooling, aphrodisiac, and tonic diuretic properties.

Dates Home Remedies

It is used to treat the following conditions:

• Constipation

  Dates are highly beneficial in treating constipation as the roughage provided by them stimulate sluggish bowels. They should be immersed in water at night and consumed early in the morning. Read other Constipation Home Remedies.

• Impotence

  A handful of dates soaked in milk overnight can be ground into a paste. Add a pinch of cardamom and honey. This is a useful tonic to mitigate sterility.

• Excessive Bleeding

  Dates are cooling in nature. Consume a ground paste of dates and honey twice a day to stem excessive bleeding.

• Nervous disorders

  Consume a mixture of honey, dates and raisins to rejuvenate and cure nervous disorders.

Indian Language Glossary: