Drinking a good amount of water along with these drinks/smoothies/beverages that are helpful for your skin health by making it a glowing, shiny, and beautiful skin. They will improve your skin quality tenfold. They are rich in Vitamins, minerals, other enzymes and antioxidants that heal your skin and make it glowing. Vitamin C present in these drinks works as an anti-inflammatory agent, which helps treat acne and dark spots.
What are the morning, afternoon/after food, and night drinks for a healthy and glowing skin?
- Water therapy – drinking 2 glasses of water in the morning and about 8 glasses of water throughout the day gives wonderful results.
- Lemon, water, and honey- consuming lemon and honey with lukewarm water can work wonders for your skin.
- Fruit juices – freshly squeezed fruit juices contain a lot of vitamins and micronutrients that boost your skin health.
- Green tea – has plant compounds that have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial properties, which can be helpful for people with acne-prone skin.
- Vegetable juices – the high water content in vegetable juices help to keep the skin hydrated and supple.
- Turmeric milk/tea- Turmeric is best known for treating acne, healing wounds, and calming skin irritation.
- Coconut Water – hydrates and moisturizes your skin. In addition, the Vitamin C found in coconut water is a natural skin brightener. Coconut water is more than just a drink since it is rich in electrolytes that can penetrate the skin and provide moisture to your skin.
- Pomegranate fruit or juice – pomegranates help to improve skin health by reducing wrinkles, preventing sun damage, detoxifying the skin, reducing acne, and promoting collagen production to reduce fine lines. It has antioxidant and anti-ageing properties. So, include it in your daily diet for optimal skin health.
- Watermelon and basil juice – watermelon has vitamin A, B, and C, that work together to nourish and protect your skin. These vitamins also help boost collagen production, make skin brighter, fade spots, and make your skin look healthy.
What are the special drinks that refresh and revitalize our skin
These drinks not only going to be effective for your skin but also in increasing hemoglobin and iron in your body. This will increase your overall health of your body and skin. Thisis the beauty of applying Ayurveda, holistic medical sciences and natural herbs in your life
How to make these drinks? In addition, explicate when and how long to drink them along with their benefits.
Carrot and Beetroot Smoothie/drink:
Take ½-cup carrot, ½-cup beetroot, a small size or 8 slices of cucumber, 2 teaspoon of lemon or lime juice, 1 cup of water and blend all these together.
Drink it once a day any time of the day as a breakfast or in between lunch and dinner. Drink it as a smoothie rather than juice because you get lots of fiber and much more vitamins and minerals.
Use this drink continuously for 3 months, then discontinue it for a month, and then continue it again.
Because lemon or lime juice is going to help the absorption of vitamins, minerals and iron from these vegetables. This remedy in turn is going to improve the level of hemoglobin and iron in your body.
Turmeric Tea:
Turmeric is a boon and the best spices for your skin, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-septic
Take two cups of water, add ½-teaspoon turmeric powder, ¼-teaspoon black pepper, 2 pinch of cinnamon powder or 2 small pieces of sticks, 2 inch of ginger crushed or grated. Boil all these together for 5 minutes.
The main component of turmeric Curcumin will be well absorbed by adding black pepper. Black pepper helps effect of ginger and cinnamon as well.
Take it after meals rather than empty stomach just to avoid feeling uncomfortable.
One to times in a day is more than enough. Drink it for 2 months and discontinue it for a month before continuing it gain.
Spinach Smoothie/drink:
Take 1-cup raw spinach, small size or 10 slices of cucumber, 1 inch of grated or crushed ginger, little bit of black pepper (1 to 5 pinches) according to taste or comfort, 2 teaspoon ofLimejuice and add 1 cup of water. Blend all these ingredients well and your smoothie is ready to be consumed.
Drink it for 2 months and discontinue it for a month before continuing it again.
Spinach boosts hydration, curbs appetite, helps prevent osteoporosis, cuts risk of iron deficiency, strengthens the immune and digestions systems and keeps eyes healthy.
Cucumber hydrates your body and it is important for your skin. It is going to help in detoxification of your intestine, improve metabolism. Without having good digestion and good intestine forget about having good skin.
Ginger helps in boosting metabolism and digestion of spinach and cucumber
Black pepper is going to help the absorption of vitamins, minerals and iron from this mixture.
If you want all these effects simultaneously, then use one dink in the morning, another one at lunchtime and the other one at the suppertime. You can also drink them on an alternative day or one drink for 2 months and then switch to another drink, as you feel comfortable.
These drinks are going to help you only if you are eating well and right foods and hydrating your body throughout the day, doing exercises, and having good sleep.
Geetha Patil and Dr. Kirankumar Rathod
Author: Geetha Patil, Drug Safety Director, Cambridge, MA and Dr. Kirankumar Rathod, Director, Edox Health care Pvt. Ltd, Homeopathic Consultant, Kalaburagi, Pune, India