Immunity booster: 5 herbs to add to your drink to stay fit and healthy

Herbs to add to your drink to stay fit and healthy

Not only the food you eat but the beverages that you drink throughout the day form an essential part of a healthy and well-balanced diet. They help to keep you hydrated and transport minerals and vitamins to different parts of the body. Moreover, they can also help to boost your immunity and keep diseases at bay if you add some healthy and nutritious herbs and seeds to them. Sipping healthy drinks is even more important at this time due to two reasons- first the lingering for COVID-19 and second the scalding summer heat. Soft drinks and packaged juices do quench your thirst, but they are loaded with calories and do not provide any nutrients. Instead, make your drink using these ingredients to cool and healthy in summer.admore

​Ashwagandha

Ashwagandha is a powerful rejuvenating herb that is used to prepare medicines for treating different ailments in Ayurveda for centuries. The Ayurvedic herb is loaded with active compounds such as amino acids, peptides, lipids, and the bases of nucleic acids, which are mainly responsible for its immunity-boosting properties. Taking Ashwagandha regularly can help you cope up with the problems of stress, anxiety, depression and poor sleep.

​Brahmi

Just like Ashwagandha, Brahmi has also been used in Ayurvedic practises for treating anxiety and improving mental health conditions. This traditional ayurvedic herb can enhance immune function by increasing immunoglobulin production. Furthermore, these herbal medicines can also alleviate anxiety and stress. The powerful antioxidants present in it can be beneficial in treating other chronic conditions such as diabetes and cancer.

Basil seeds

The tiny round and black sabja seeds can be easily added to any drink for a refreshing flavour. Basil seeds contain nutrients like omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin A, B, E and K, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and iron. The tiny seeds contain flavonoids and phenolic which helps to boost immunity and prevents the damage caused by free radicals.

​Fennel seeds

The aromatic fennel seeds contain trans-anethole, a compound that can neutralise several kinds of virus. Drinking fennel seeds water can help to boost immunity and decrease inflammation in the body. It can also decrease the risk of infection and clear the respiratory passage. Fennel seeds are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C and Beta Carotene, these components are known for their immunity-boosting properties.

Khus

Having the refreshing and tasty khus drink in summer is the best option to keep yourself hydrated and boost your immune health. Prepared from khus or vetiver grass, khus roots are a rich source of antioxidants that can boost immunity by fighting free radicals in the body. It is also loaded with zinc that can support our natural defence system and heal your wounds quickly.

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COVID Vaccination: WHO says nasal vaccines for children could be 'game changers' | What it is and how effective could it be

World Health Organisation’s Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan said on Sunday that the nasal vaccines for children, whose second and third phase trial is currently ongoing, can be proven game changers in India’s and world’s fight against Covid-19 pandemic. WHO Chief Scientist, however, added that nasal vaccines may not be available by the end of this year amid rising fears of a third wave of Covid-19 hitting children and young adults in particular.

What are nasal vaccines?

A nasal vaccine is administered via nasal passage and does not require a syringe. In case of Covis-19, a nasal vaccine is reportedly capable of generating immune responses at the site of infection within respiratory passage starting from nasal airways. In case of children, this is deemed essential for blocking both infection and transmission of COVID-19.

Which nasal vaccines are being developed in India?

Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech apart from having developed the Covaxin Covid vaccine, is also developing BBV154 nasal vaccine for children in collaboration with Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM). The first phase trials were reported to have proven successful and the subsequent second and third phase of nasal vaccine’s trials are currently ongoing. Serum Institute of India (SII) is also testing the efficacy of intransal COVI-VAC Covid vaccine in collaboration with New York-based vaccine maker Codagenix.

‘Hopeful about vaccine for Children’: Dr Soumya Swaminathan

The top WHO scientist said that she is very hopeful that ultimately world will have the vaccine for children. “But that’s not going to happen this year, and we should open schools when community transmission is down,” Swaminathan was quoted as saying by CNN-News 18.

Meanwhile, the US Food and Drug Administration gave emergency approval to Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for youngsters aged 12-17. The chief vaccine developer in the US, Pfizer is reportedly planning to seek emergency approval by September for children between the ages of 2 and 11.

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