A friend of mine introduced me to this cool Indian herb called asafoetida (pronounced as-fi-TI-da). It’s cool because you can use it in food preparation in place of onion and garlic.
I avoid onion and garlic as much as I can because it gives me a funny belly, a yucky taste in my mouth that usually lasts about a day, and it increases the heat in my body so I often get redness and inflammation in my skin after eating it.
It’s unfortunate because I know how healing both onion and garlic can be to the body. I wrote an article about garlic over a year ago now and it’s an article that’s referred to a lot from the readers of this blog. Check it out if you want to learn more about why I don’t like to eat garlic - Is Garlic A Friend Or Foe For Your Skin?
Either way I’m going to keep avoiding it because it doesn’t feel right in my body and I don’t like how it makes my skin look.
So if you’re in the same boat as me and don’t like eating onion and garlic, then get your hands on some asafoetida. It’s an Indian herb so you’re most likely to find it at an Indian grocery store. If you can’t find it at any of your local grocery stores then you can buy it online.
Asafoetida comes in a powdered form so you use it just like any other powdered spice or herb. Apparently it has a really bad smell before it’s cooked which I actually didn’t notice at all when my friend was showing me so I can’t comment on that. We were making up some raw food together so we added it to a dip type thing that was uncooked and it didn’t have a strong flavor but still tasted good. You’re supposed to use it in cooking because it really brings out the flavor.
When I was researching asafoetida last night I came across a heap of information about the healing properties of the spice which is just awesome. I don’t particularly like using any food or flavoring that doesn’t provide any nutrients so this was like the icing on the cake.
Apparently asafoetida has been used as a medicine in India and China for a long time. In Indian it’s most commonly known to help reduce flatulence which is a bit weird but hey, at least you won’t have to worry about THAT problem. It’s also known to help heal respiratory disorders, influenza, toothache, impotency, and is great for women after child birth. It also helps balance out the vata dosha. I think I may have found one of my most favorite herbs of all time!!
I avoid onion and garlic as much as I can because it gives me a funny belly, a yucky taste in my mouth that usually lasts about a day, and it increases the heat in my body so I often get redness and inflammation in my skin after eating it.
It’s unfortunate because I know how healing both onion and garlic can be to the body. I wrote an article about garlic over a year ago now and it’s an article that’s referred to a lot from the readers of this blog. Check it out if you want to learn more about why I don’t like to eat garlic - Is Garlic A Friend Or Foe For Your Skin?
Either way I’m going to keep avoiding it because it doesn’t feel right in my body and I don’t like how it makes my skin look.
So if you’re in the same boat as me and don’t like eating onion and garlic, then get your hands on some asafoetida. It’s an Indian herb so you’re most likely to find it at an Indian grocery store. If you can’t find it at any of your local grocery stores then you can buy it online.
Asafoetida comes in a powdered form so you use it just like any other powdered spice or herb. Apparently it has a really bad smell before it’s cooked which I actually didn’t notice at all when my friend was showing me so I can’t comment on that. We were making up some raw food together so we added it to a dip type thing that was uncooked and it didn’t have a strong flavor but still tasted good. You’re supposed to use it in cooking because it really brings out the flavor.
When I was researching asafoetida last night I came across a heap of information about the healing properties of the spice which is just awesome. I don’t particularly like using any food or flavoring that doesn’t provide any nutrients so this was like the icing on the cake.
Apparently asafoetida has been used as a medicine in India and China for a long time. In Indian it’s most commonly known to help reduce flatulence which is a bit weird but hey, at least you won’t have to worry about THAT problem. It’s also known to help heal respiratory disorders, influenza, toothache, impotency, and is great for women after child birth. It also helps balance out the vata dosha. I think I may have found one of my most favorite herbs of all time!!