The Spicy Spices -The Unnatural Taste

God hasn’t created spices as food for man. Spices are intended to serve as
medicine. But we have made them as part of our food! Our body needs food not
medicines!
Instead of using spices as medicines we are using artificial medicines made out of
chemicals. The spices that we enjoy as food are used as medicine in Ayurveda
system of medicine.
Mother Nature has given you two gifts for your wellbeing - good food to enjoy and
herbs to cure yourself of any disorder. Man has been getting along happily by using
the herbs with medicinal value in emergency. But to satisfy our weakness for taste
spices with their rich aroma and flavor we are using them in making our daily food.
Did you ever see any other creature using spices as food?
Many allopathic medicines are made out of spices. For example consider the tonics
for digestion, medicines for gas trouble, medicines for appetite etc! They are created
out of spices by adding a little taste, color, preservatives etc. assuring us of more
than the natural medicine!
Try this. Drink for four days early in the morning a juice made out of ginger and
coriander seeds, and add honey to it. This natural juice raises your appetite so much
that no medicine can be compared to it. That is the difference between natural and
artificial.
Can you enlist the spices that we use daily? Coriander seeds, ginger, garlic, cloves,
cardamom, and many more! They are all helpful for our health as medicines.
Should we use them as part of our food every day? We have become slaves to the
food of their smell and taste. The sight of a dead body automatically makes us close
our eyes and nose, but we eat and enjoy non-vegetarian food just because the
spices made it tasty. What a paradox!
Spices may be used in cooking non-vegetarian food for two reasons – to get rid of
bad odor from meat and to digest it easily. Spices produce digestive juices to digest
heavy food. You need a good thought to drive out a bad thought! You need a good
thing to drive out a bad thing! So the use of spices is acceptable with regards to
meat! But why do we need it for vegetables and every other food item?
People suffer from amoebiasis, diabetes, heart problems, BP because of
indiscriminate use of spices in the food.
Is it not good to use spices once in a while and save the body from falling sick? Don’t
you want to lead a happy, peaceful life? How long will you make your poor body
suffer? One who cannot resist temptation will not have a healthy body.