I have worked for Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad and gained rich experience in Dietetics and Hospital Food Services. Poppy seeds may affect the development of the unborn child, therefore pregnant women should not consume poppy seeds. A unique sweetmeat from South India that is offered to the deities every year, maa vilakku is essentially a rice flour lamp!

When one layer of a Bengali sweet is often enough to send you into foodie heaven, Raskadam is a sweet dish made of two decadent layers. They can be consumed in the form of tea or made into a paste and mixed with warm milk to enjoy a blessed slumber. He further asserts that post-Vedic Aryans were akin to Vedic Aryans in terms of language and culture. Actually the milk and khaskhas when cooked together imparts natural sweet taste to the seera and moreover chuhara and raisins serve as perfect sweet bites. the great mass of the Aryan speaking population of the lower Himalaya from Kashmir to Darjeeling is inhabited by tribes descended from the ancient Khasas of Mahabharata.

However, such cases have not got too much recognition and there remains a doubt whether poppy seeds are toxic or not.

Mix the seeds with white pepper and hung curd, and apply on the scalp for an hour, wash with lukewarm water. They had extensively populated the mountainous regions of Uttarakhand [31] and they had entirely dominated the inner Himalayan belt up to Nepal. Apart from the abovementioned benefits, poppy seeds are also known to help in improving immunity and reducing mouth ulcers, though there is no confirmatory evidence for either of these benefits.Khas is a perennial herb which is cultivated for the production of a commercially important essential oil used in perfumes.

Apart from meditation and other natural sleeping techniques, I was looking for some home remedies and foods to include in my diet. Historian Sir Marc Aurel Stein further identified the modern Khakha Rajput community as the Khas people in the Azad Kashmir state of Pakistan [16] and the modern Bomba clan in the Karnah region of Jammu and Kashmir. Khus Khus is a good source of the mineral magnesium which our body needs for many cellular processes. This ayurvedic medicine has been recommended by our doctors to lakhs of people for sex problems with good results.Poppies were welcomed even after knowing that they were weeds found on agricultural land because they ensure the fertility of the soil. It flushes the fallopian tube by dissolving debris or any mucus particles from it, helps in clearing the blockage, and thus increases the chance of fertility. T. Atkinson in his 1886 CE Kumaon gazetteer, mentions that there are 250 'septs among Khasiya Brahmins' [53] and 280 'septs among Khasiya Rajputs' who represent the Khasa tribe. If insomnia occurs due to emotional issues such as anger or distress, these can also be treated with Khus Khus.