Wild herbs were forgotten for a long time and were dismissed as weeds. They are now experiencing a renaissance: they are becoming easier and easier to find at markets and in organic food stores and are even being used in gourmet and award-winning kitchens.

Wild herbs bring spring into your kitchen and aromatic variety to your plate. They usually have a much more intensive taste than bred varieties and are rich in vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and secondary plant compounds.

You can cultivate them in your own wild herb garden without much effort or grow wild herbs in pots - this saves time and money. Wild plant gardens grow virtually by themselves, are low maintenance, and do not cost much. If you prefer collecting herbs in the wild, you should take a special course beforehand. Otherwise the risk of confusing edible wild herbs with poisonous ones is too great. Wild garlic is a well-known example: it can easily be mistaken for the poisonous lily of the valley. The safest way to tell the difference is that wild garlic has a garlic smell.

Did you know that wild herbs make great spring remedies? Wild herbs contain valuable active substances, such as essential oils, bitter compounds, and flavonoids, which help your body detoxify.

Spring remedy

In spring many wild plants grow that can have a detoxifying and strengthening effect. Wild garlic, nettle, and dandelion are good examples for a spring remedy and help you overcome spring tiredness.

Wild garlic is rich in minerals, trace elements, vitamin C, and flavonoids. It has an antiseptic, digestive, and anti-inflammatory effect.

Use: heat causes wild garlic to lose much of its characteristic taste, so it is usually eaten raw. Minced wild garlic goes well with salads, sauces, pesto, casseroles, and potato dishes.

Nettle contains high amounts of vitamin C (about three times the amount found in kale), potassium, phosphorous, silicon, magnesium, calcium, iron, and vitamins A and E. Nettles have a diuretic and blood-purifying effect.

Use: young, tender leaves make a wonderful spinach substitute. Finely chopped leaves compliment salads, soups, and sauces. Blanching the nettle destroys the nettle hair.

Dandelion contains high amounts of vitamin C and D, potassium, bitter compounds, and flavonoids. Bitter compounds stimulate the gall bladder and liver and support the body’s own detoxification function.

Use: young and slightly bitter tasting leaves can be prepared like spinach or eaten as salad.

Dr. Neelam Kler is an Indian neonatologist renowned for her groundbreaking work in neonatal intensive care and ventilation. She is well-known for her contributions to neonatal care, particularly for preterm babies, and is regarded as a pioneer in intensive care and ventilation. She is credited with transforming the neonatology department at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi into a cutting-edge facility equipped with modern high frequency ventilation, Nitric Oxide delivery, and bedside cerebral function monitoring.

In the latest interview with First Medical Diagnostics, she looks into the Healthy Gut. 

Dr. Neelam Kler- "Our gut is also an organ, and our body has those healthy microbiomes which help us in having a healthy life. There are certain things you can do. People who are obese, who are overweight, they have unhealthy microbiome, so they are more prone to develop diabetes. They are more prone to develop hypertension. Since I deal with pregnant women and their babies, so young girls should exercise, should eat healthy. They should not become obese or overweight because that will make them unhealthy and not only make them unhealthy, but also their babies also unhealthy because those women are more prone to have problems, complications related to pregnancy. And they can have problem with the childbirth, they can have premature babies, and those babies are at risk risk of disease. Babies who are born premature, they live in the NICUs for a longer time. They are more prone to have organ defects. They are more prone to have abnormal neurological development. They are more prone to have lifestyle diseases when they grow up. They are more prone to become obese. They are more prone to develop more weight gain. They can develop diabetes, hypertension. 

So what we call as the lifestyle diseases, they are actually It's really related to the healthy microbiota of our body, which lives mainly in the gut, in the intestine. So if you eat well, you think well, you exercise, you have a good lifestyle, you have healthy microbiome. If you're overweight, you are lazy, you eat all the wrong stuff, and you don't do the positive thinking, you get the deceased microbiome. We're trying to understand that what is the mantra of healthy life, basically. Since I deal with the babies, I'm saying that it should be right from the time a woman becomes pregnant, and a woman can have problems before even she becomes pregnant. Maybe the young girls, the young boys, should have healthy lifestyle in bracket. 

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Our flagship event “International Symposium on Gut Health and Lifestyle Disorders” themed ‘Millets and the Microbiome - Your Way to Wellness’ was held on 20th January 2024 at India Habitat Centre.

The founder of Celiac Society of India and Nutritionist, Ms. Ishi Khosla organised this event with Dr. Tom O’Bryan, Dr. Sarath Gopalan, Dr. Arjun Dang,Dr. Anupam Sibal and many more Healthcare professionals.

The Chief Guest of the event was Honourable Minister of External Affairs of India, Mrs. Meenakshi Lekhi

Miss Alka Vikash, a vocalist in the Hindustani Classical Music tradition inaugurated the event with Saraswati Vandana-the ‘Goddess of Art and Wisdom.’

The sponsors of this event were First Medical Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd., Yakult India, Agilus, Morepen, Viatris, Shakti Foundation, Illness to Wellness, etc.

Watch all the glimpses of the event at our YouTube channel and Website.

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