Asafoetida Nutritional Ingredients And Health Benefits

Asafoetida Health Benefits

• Asafoetida is good for relieving flatulence and also cures spasmodic disorders.
• Asafoetida is also believed to be a cure for hysteria.
  
  
  
  If you inhale the gum, it can prevent attacks of hysteria. A mixture of gum and water is often administered through the rectum when giving oral dosages is not possible.
• Asafoetida is used to treat respiratory problems like bronchitis, asthma and whooping cough. The medicinal recipe for this medicinal concoction is – 3-6 cm of asafetida gum with 2 spoons of honey, a spoonful of betel leaf juice and a quarter spoon of white onion juice.
  
  
  
  If a person suffering from a respiratory disorder takes this concoction thrice a day, he/she will recover quickly.
• Asafoetida is also used to treat nervous disorders in children.
• Asafoetida is supposed to be useful in treating a host of problems in women, like leucorrhoea, difficult and painful menstruation, premature labor, unwanted abortion and sterility.
• Another of asafetida health benefits includes treating impotency. It is said that a mixture of 6 centigrams of asafetida, fried in ghee/clarified butter and mixed with a spoonful of fresh latex from a banyan tree and honey, should be taken every day for 40 consecutive days before sunrise.
• Asafoetida is also good for stomach disorders. It is a good cure for flatulence and excessive gas, and is also good for digestion.
• Asafoetida is prescribed to women after childbirth. Since it is good for digestion and has anti-flatulence properties, this herb is beneficial for women during the post-delivery period.
• Asafoetida can bring relief from a toothache. Pounced in lemon juice, asafetida becomes warm, a quality that brings relief to an aching tooth. Then a cotton swab dabbed in this mixture can be placed on the cavity to bring relief.
• This herb acts as an antidote to opium and often administered to opium addicts.
• Asafoetida is a sedative and it can also help in lowering blood pressure.
  
  
  
  It is also said to thin the blood. Thus, while asafetida is good for adults, it isn’t good for infants.
• Since asafetida has an unpleasant smell, it acts as a natural pesticide.
• According to mythology, asafetida can banish demons, evil spirits and negative energy. People also use this herb to invoke male gods – those of a phallic nature.