Health Benefits of Butter, An Ayurveda Perception

Dictionaries define butter as "a solid emulsion of fat globules, air, and water created by churning milk or cream and utilized as food". Butter is recognized as "Navaneeta" in Sanskrit. It is referred as navaneeta in texts of ayurveda too. Butter is generally produced from cow's or buffalo's milk. But it can be made from milk of other mammals like sheep, goats, camel and so on.

Butter prepared out of cow's milk contains saturated fats, monosaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, a lot of Vitamin A, Vtamin D, Vitamin D and Cholesterol.

Texts of ayurveda contemplate butter prepared from milk of cow, buffalo and sheep for medicinal use. The wellness advantages of butter are pretty well explained in ayurveda.

Butter prepared from cow's milk has the following medicinal properties.

• It acts as a body coolant.
  
• This butter nourishes physique tissues and increases physique power level.
  
• The complexion of skin and strength of body increases when butter is consumed.
  
• Butter increases appetite.
  
• It alleviates vata and pitta.
  
• Quite powerful in piles or hemorrhoids.
  
• Reduces cough.
  
• Elderly men and women and infants are benefited by butter. It acts like an elixir when administered to infants and elderly.

Butter prepared from buffalo's milk has the following medicinal properties

• It increases vata and kapha.
  
• Butter ready from buffalo's milk is heavy to digest.
  
• Consumption of this butter alleviates pitta, burning sensation and tiredness.
  
• It increases high quality and quantity of semen.
  
• Body fat or medho dhatu gets increased by consuming this frequently.

Butter ready from sheep's milk alleviates vata, pitta and kapha and is superior to all other types of butter.

Sheep milk is treasure of nutrients. It is richer in vitamins A, B, and E, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and magnesium than cow milk. The chains of fatty acids in sheep milk have a great number of wellness benefits. They have little effect on blood cholesterol level of humans. It is very easy to digest fat portion of sheep milk.

Pure turmeric powder blended evenly with butter can be utilised for physique massage. Massaging physique with this mixture aids to increase fairness and eases wrinkles.

Health Note:

If you have atherosclerosis, heart illness, high cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia) in the upper range 200-239 mg/dL or high triglycerides (hypertriglyceridemia), the American Heart Association recommends a maximum day-to-day limit of 200mg of dietary cholesterol, and advises no a lot more than 7 percent of calories be eaten in the form of saturated fat.

A new study shows that exposure to a chemical called diacetyl, a component of artificial butter flavoring, can be damaging.