Simple Tips For Back Pain Relief

Lower back pain? Follow these tips.

These lifestyle habits can bring relief and help you avoid future problems. Living a healthy lifestyle that's full of exercise and taking some care to have a healthy back can help you live free of chronic back pain.

Lifestyle has the biggest influence on back pain, and healthy habits such as a good diet, exercising, stretching, and posture can give you back pain relief or help you prevent future problems.

Staying fit is one of the most important recommendations for avoiding back pain, Extra pounds stress your back and can cause pain. Eating a healthy diet filled with fruits and vegetables and low on processed foods can keep your weight in a healthy range and your back healthy.

The most common back problems happen because people who aren't in shape start doing heavy lifting or hard work and stress their back, Back pain usually happens when there's degeneration of the spine because the spine is working too hard. But when you build up enough muscle strength in your back with exercise, the muscles give your spine the support it needs to keep it healthy. That's why physical therapy is standard back pain treatment, but being in shape can help you avoid back pain to begin with.

In addition to exercise, stretching is important for staying flexible and avoiding back problems. It's also a key part of recovering from a back injury. Stretch before doing heavy lifting or exercise and make a habit of doing it before bed. Stretches can be as simple as bending forward, bending back, and bending side to side.


Poor posture is another major contributor of back pain. Standing up straight with your ears over your shoulders, your shoulders over your hip joints, and your hip joints over your ankles will help keep your healthy pain-free. When you're sitting, getting a chair that's designed to keep your back straight will help.

When you do pick up a heavy object, bend at the knees and keep the item close to your body. Also, take care not to twist your body when you lift, and wear a brace if you have a job that requires heavy lifting.

Stress tends to make back pain worse. That may be another good reason to practice yoga. Other ways to reduce stress include treating yourself well, avoiding over-scheduling your days, and taking time to enjoy life.

Sleep well, Soft mattresses push your back out of alignment, so it's best to choose a mattress that's in the range of medium to firm for back pain relief.

Mutton Biriyani

Biryani is an Urdu word derived from the Persian language, which was used as an official language in different parts of medieval India. Depending on the region and the condiments available and popular in that region, there are different varieties of biryani.


This is my mom's style of biriyani.

Ingredients:

Seeraga samba rice – ½ kg

Mutton – ½ kg

Oil – 2 tblspn

Ghee – 4 tblspn

Salt – as per taste

Water (rice)1:2 (water) (including coconut and mint, coriander juice and water)

Coconut milk – ½ cup

Mint and coriander leaves paste – ½ cup

Onion – sliced 1 big

Mint leaves – few

Coriander leaves – few

Green chilli – 2 split it into two

Bay leaf – 3

Cinnamon – 3

Cloves – 2

Cardamom – 2

Fennel seeds – ½ spn

Star anise – 2

Cashew nuts – 6

Ginger garlic paste – 3 tbl spns

Garlic – 5

Curd – 4 tbl spn

Lemon juice – ½ lemon

To marinate mutton:

Mutton

Curd – 2 tblspn

Chilli powder – 1 spn

Turmeric powder – ½ spn

Mix all well marinate for 1 hour.

To make biriyani fresh masala powder:

Heat pan dry roast,

Red chilli – 6

Poppy seeds – 1 tblspn

Coriander seeds – 2 tblspn

Fennel seeds – ½ spn

Cinnamon – 3

Cloves – 2

Star anise – 2

Black stone flower /kalpasi – 1

Nutmeg – ½

Cardamom – 2

Pepper corns – 4 to 5

Roast and grind into powder.

Preparation:

Heat cooker add oil n ghee 2 tbl spn, then temper with bay leaves, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and cashew nuts.

Then add onions, green chilli and garlic sauté well till onion turns golden brown.

Then add ginger garlic paste sauté till raw smell goes off. Then add biriyani powder 4 tblspn mix well then add curd into it mix well.

Add marinated mutton and mint coriander leaves mix and stir well, add ½ cup of water and close the lid leave it for 2 whistle and 5 mins in slow flame.

Open and add rice mix it then add salt , coconut milk and water let it boil. Add chilli powder if u want spice, Then add mint coriander juice ( grind mint and coriander then filter it). Mix well check the taste . add lemon juice n ghee 2tblspn , boil till the water reduce to rice level close the lid and pressure cook for 2 mins in full flame and 7 mins in slow flame. (Or) boil for 1 min ( don’t reduce water) then close the lid 1 whistle in full flame & 3 to 5 mins in slow flame.

Serve with onion raita or chicken gravy.

seeraga samba rice

marinate mutton

leave it for 1 hour

roast biriyani masala

biriyani masala powder

coconut milk

mint coriander juice

temper

Ginger garlic paste

add biriyani masala powder

adding curd

add water and cover and pressure cook

open cooked mutton

add water and coconut milk

boil it

chilli powder

mint coriander juice

add required water , lemon juice, ghee and coverand pressure cook

open and mix

mutton biriyani

serve with chicken gravy

Mochai Payaru Gravy / Field Beans Gravy ver 2

Field beans seeds contain 22% protein, 2% fat, 61% carbohydrate (includes 5% fiber) as well as adequate levels of all vitamins and minerals.

Ingredients:

Dry mochai payaru / field beans – 1 cup / 200gm

Tomato – 1 or 2

Salt – as per taste

Garlic – 5

Chilli powder / sambar powder – 2 tblspn

Tamarind water - ½ small cup or as per taste.

To grind masala paste:

Coconut pieces – ½ cup

Cumin seeds – 1 spn

Garlic – 1 piece

Shallots / small onion – 50 gm

Preparation:

Soak mochai payaru/field beans over night, then wash and add in cooker, add water till beans cover . Cook it for 1 whistle, then slow the flame and cook for 15 mins.

Heat oil add chopped shallots, and garlic sauté well. Then add tomato pieces, add and salt cook till tomatoes smash well.

Grind coconut, cumin, garlic first, then roast oions and grind it into fine paste.

Add chilli or sambar powder, tamarind water in, mix it well.

Then add mochai payaru / field beans into the gravy , add required water .boil it for 1 min close the lid and cook for 1 whistle in full flame and 2 mins in slow flame.

Open and serve it with hot rice.

Benefits Of Neem

The neem tree is believed to be originally native to Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, and Burma. All parts of neem are used for preparing many different medicines, especially for skin disease. Neem is both drought resistant and can grow in poor soil, and it is highly resistant to pests and diseases. For centuries, the neem tree has played a big part in Ayurvedic medicine and Indian folk medicine and it is still one of the most commonly used medicinal plant in India.

Uses of neem:

Say good bye to dandruff, boil a bunch of neem leaves till the water turns green, allow it to cool. After washing your hair with shampoo, cleanse it with this water.

To get rid of acne pimples make a paste and apply it daily till the acne dries out. The paste also helps any kind of eruptions, dark spots and chronic ulcers.

For other skin diseases try turmeric combined with a paste of neem leaves can also be used for itching, eczema, ring worms.

Crush some neem leaves and take them with a glass of water to increase your immunity.

Ayurveda suggests neem leaves are good for the eyes and useful in treating skin disease and headaches.

Neem oil that's extracted from neem seeds is rich in medicinal properties which are what makes it a great ingredient in cosmetics and other beauty products: soaps, hair oil, hand wash, soap etc.

It is an excellent mosquito repellent. You can mix it with coconut oil and apply it over your body as well.

Take 2-3 drops of neem oil, dilute it with water and apply this mix on your blackheads. Apply this regularly to get rid of blackheads and prevent them from coming back.

Take some neem oil and rub it into the scalp, leave it in for a while and wash. Neem oil can strengthen your hair, prevent hair fall and treat dandruff.

Neem leaf powder in vegetable capsules is taken as an herbal supplement to support the immune system and as part of a regime to support healthy blood sugar levels. Neem powder tea is used for antibiotic and antiviral treatments.

Neem leaves stimulates the immune system, improves liver functionality, detoxifies the blood and promotes a healthy respiratory and digestive system.

Neem leaves have often been used in India to treat viral diseases. Neem leaves extract, absorbs and eliminates virus.

Neem leaves for skin can also be used as a toner. Just dip a cotton ball in boiled neem water and wipe your face with it overnight. This will clear acne, scars, pigmentation and black heads.