-SATISH HANDA

States including Goa, Tripura, Laddakh, Nagaland, Manipur and Himachal Pradesh witnessed lesser cases of corona virus as compared to rest part of country. Whereas, Haryana state has been able to achieve record over 67% cure rate to arrest corona disease. International scenario reveals, Corona positive cases in India are much lesser than other corona virus affected major countries across the world.

According to famous naturopath and director of a reputed hospital at Hisar in Haryana state Dr Seema Goel claims that use of maximum quantity of spices in kitchens especially in Haryana state is one of the major reasons that the state was able to achieve record cure rate during present epidemic outbreak due to excessive use of spices possessing highest medical values. She said that spices possess highest medical properties to keep body healthy, disease-free since ancient centuries discovered spices from natural herbs by our saints, which is also admitted by allopathic technology as such it is because of use of spices people in some areas were able to face corona virus bravely.

Dr Seema told that some of spices widely used in our kitchen having valuable medicinal properties include Turmeric Powder (Haldi), Black Pepper (Kali Mirch), Garam Masala, Cinnamon (Dalchini), Nutmeg (Jaiphal), Mace (Zavitri), Long, Cardamon (Ilaychi), Dhania, Cassia (Tejpat), Cumin Seed (Zeera), Asafoetida (Hing) and Aniseed (Saunf). Dr Seema said that lifestyle of people residing in small towns is similar to those residing in rural areas thus had less ill-effect of corona virus.

Supporting his wife, Dr Anil Goel senior physician at a renowned hospital at Hisar continued that its because of use of our spices that recovery rate as well as deaths due to this dreaded disease in our country as well as in Haryana state is much better as compared to other countries because Indians, especially residents in Haryana and few other states use excessive quantity of spices in their kitchen. Dr Goel said, among those corona patients could not be saved include maximum number of old-age persons unable to face corona attack or those suffering from other chronic diseases having lesser immune power. He added, credit goes to our ancient saints did lot of research work on useful properties of plants and herbs to discover spices out of them in past capable to cure serious diseases.