Food/Health & Wellness

5 Top Foods That Naturally Have Healing Properties

These are foods with either bacteria or virus-resistance properties

Turmeric is one of the under appreciated spice with natural healing property. Photo by Dyah Miller on Unsplash.com

It was the Greek physician, Hippocrates, who was attributed to the quote, ‘Let medicine be thy food and food thy medicine.’’ he already knew the importance of the therapeutic effect of food on health.

Today, in modern nutrition science, food not only sustain us, but can serve as preventative tool against diseases as well. So it is actually a proactive call to better health through what we eat.

A healthy whole nutritious diet can prevent illness, by boosting our immunity or vice versa, that is, a poor diet can actually make us sick, including some serious illness like cancer and some chronic diseases like diabetic.

Lets us look at these top five food items individually:

Turmeric

This is about the most medically investigated spice in food science, confirming to have about 800 preventative and healing properties. The active ingredient Curcumin has been tested on human, and confirm to have anti-inflammatory properties, against osteoarthritis, depression…