Thailand's Healthful

Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Spices

Long ago, Spices from Persia and the East Indies occupied the minds of the great civilizations of China, Greece and Rome. Longevity, health, fitness were the hallmarks of human interaction in classical worlds, much as they are in ours today. Health and physical fitness are not just a result of athletic workouts and vitamin pills. These help, but our basic physical health is determined by our diet. We all know the basic about nutrition and we do our best to eat well, but often we are at a loss when in comes to a well prescribed diet that could prevent a lot of the irritating minor illnesses and problems we have. In Thailand, people have always paid close attention to the little things in diet. This is why Thai food is filled with spices, herbs, fruits and vegetables such as chillis, garlic, ginger and coconut. These ingredients and others like them are more than just good taste, and traditional Thai cooking has always involved more practical knowledge of healthful foods than either decoration or flavor. Interestingly, medical professionals the world over are taking a closer look at the properties of basic herbal ingredients and finding that there is indeed some benefit to them. On this page, we offer a brief sketch of some of the most common human ailments and irritations along with lists of Thai fruits, vegetables, hers and spices that are known to have a potentially helpful effect on us when we eat them. This is no surefire cure, but it's nice to know that we can partially determine our own healthful diet based on some fundamental information. Let's take a look.

	Common Cold : Sweet basil seed Tamarind Banana Jackfruit Pomelo Langsart Margosa Lettuce Shallots Black Pepper Santol Plum Mango	Gastrointestial : Cloves Common Ginger White Tumeric Chillis Pine Apple Wild betel leaf Garlic Holy basil Black pepper Cardamon Zingiber cassumanar Coriander Thorny tree Onions
	Headache : Chillis Pomelo Gooseberry leaf Tea & Lemon	Backache : Lemon grass Eggplant Coconut
	Burn : Pumpkin Coconut Jasmine Cashew Aloe Tea Tobacco Asiatic Pennyworth	Urinary Tract : Celery Pandanus Palm Roselle Pineapple Lemon Grass Lettuce Siamese Cassia Corn Cashew nut
	Constipation : Tamarind Sweet basil seed Papaya Banana Golden shower Siamese cassia Senna	Diarrhea : Mango Tea Guava Langsart Siamese Ginger Gra shai Santol White Tumeric Coconut Mangosteen Jujube Mung Beans
	Worms : Punio Apple Pumpkin Betel-Nut Tamarind Garlic Langsart	Appetite : Common Ginger Siamese Cassia Celery Balsam Apple Corn
	Toothache : Lettuce Cloves Manila Tamarind Coconut Bodhi Tree Holy basil	Heart : Tea wild Lotus Pandanus Palm Lettuce Kaffir lime Longan Papaya Corn
	Skin Care : Garlic Siamese Ginger Durian Holy basil White Tumeric Swamp Cabbage	Cholesterol : Roselle Wild Tamarind Garlic Shallots Onions
	Diabetes : Balsam Apple Corn Banana Pandanus leaf Wild Tamarind	Hypertension : Celery Tea Tamarind Wild Tamarind
		Cough : Garlic Lemon Eucalyptus