Spinach

Arai keerai
Nutrients: Copper strength(Thamira ??) , Iron, Calcium, Mineral salts.
Good for: Everybody at all ages. Breastfeeding mothers, if eaten everyday

with dal and ghee will increast breastmilk
production.
Benefits: Cools the body and strengthens the body. Improves Thathu balam

(sperm production ??)

Drumstick leaves(murunga keerai)
Nutrients: Vitamin A, B1, C, necessary amount of Iron
Avoid for: Indigestion patients. Heart patients should not eat at night.

Vathanoi??(Paralytic patients) should not eat it.
Benefits: Improves vision and thathu balam ??

POnnangani keerai ??
Nutrients: Vitamin A, thamiram, Iron
Good for: Vision problems. Good for maalai kan patients ( cannot see in

the night)
Benefits: Very good if eaten daily. Cools the body and improves skin

color.

pasalai keerai???
Nutrients: Iron
Good for: Stomach ailments, Piles, mandai varatchi?? people
Avoid for: Should not eat if you have Cold or headache,
Benefits: Cools the body

sirukeerai
Nutrients: high amounts of pachayam?? calcium
Good for: Diabetes patients
Avoid for: When you are taking other medicines.
Benefits: Increases heat of the body. Reduces/Cancels the effect of

poison(toxic).

Venthaya keerai
Nutrients: Iron, Vitamin A, Calcium.
Good for: Growing children, rectum infections (moola??), White

discharge??, Diabetes patients
Benefits: Cools the body. (thanikkum?) Strengthens the body

Agathikeerai
Nutrients: Vitamin A, Lots of calcium
Good for: Mouth, Stomach infections -- eat one week continously to get

immediate releief.
Avoid for: When eating other medication. Elderly people should only eat it

as soup.
Benefits: Cools teh body.

Manathakaali keerai
Nutrients: Vitamin B1, B2, A, Riboflavin
Good for: Mouth infections, stomach infections
Benefits: Reduces body heat. Heals the wounds, Prevents worms in the

stomach.

mudakKathan(pg 109)
Nutrients: Calcium
Good for: gout (Joint problems), rheumatism, joint ache, for people whose

bones are weak or starting to erode
Benefits: Helps in bone and tissue growth. Reduces Gas, Swelling, Itchy

(kudaichal), paralytic(vaathavali??)

Vallarai
Nutrients: Ceratonium
Good for: Kids, Old people, Office going people(aluvalaga paniyil??)
Avoid for: Mentally affected people should consult with doctor before

eating
Benefits: Strengthens brain, improves memory

thoothuvallai
Nutrients: Iron, Minerals, Vitamin C
Good for: Ear swelling(water/pus formation), hearing problem, asthma
Avoid for: Heat body, piles patients(rectum infection patients)
Benefits: Strengthens nerves, protects lungs from getting cold.

pulichakeerai
Nutrients: Vitamin E
Good for: Men and pregnant women
Benefits: Generates hunger. Increases strength for men.

Karpuravalli
Nutrients: Vitamin C, Minerals
Good for: people suffering from cold
Benefits: Treats cold very well. Relieves congested/sore throat. Releives

cough. generates heat in the body. Generates hunger.

Kizhanalli
Nutrients: Vitamin B. B2. C
Good for: Jaundice
Benefits: Treats Jaundice, liver stone ??, swelling(hand, leg and face),

treats pittam. Increases bowel movements.

yellow karisalangani
Nutrients: Iron
Good for: Anaemia patients
Benefits: Cools the body. Increases haemoglobin production in body.

Improves functioning of liver and pancreas.
White karisalangani is very good for hairgrowth. Decreases bodyheat.

Betelnut leaves (vettrilai)
Nutrients: Filled with 23 vital nutrients. (amino acids??)
Good for: sthma patients, pregnant women
Avoid for: School going children
Benefits: Treats thick cold, Increases appetite

Aara keerai
Nutrients: Vitamin A
Good for: Sugar patients
Benefits: Increases appetite. Improves tastebuds, and digestion

Sozhikeerai
Nutrients: Mineral salts
Good for: Meat eating people
Benefits: Treats Constipation and helps in digestion.

Moolaikeerai
Nutrients: Mineral salts, Vitamin A
Good for: Increasing body weight, very thin people can eat often
Avoid for: Asthma patients, Sinus
Benefits: Cools the body and increases body weight