The drumstick is a commonly eaten vegetable in south Asian countries like India and Pakistan

Health Benefits of Drumstick :

• Drum stick juice when mixed with milk and given to the children helps to strengthen bones as they are a great source of Calcium. Drumstick are said to be a great blood purifier.they help to fight skin disease and also good for cancer.Pregnant women should often eat drumsticks as it helps to ease any kind of pre and post delivery complications to them.

• Nutritionally, drumstick pods and leaves carry great nutritive value as it a great sources of acrotene, phosphorus, calcium and vitamin "C" in them .They are eaten for the treatment of ascites, rheumatism and venomous bites as an antiseptic and also as a cardiac and circulatory stimulants.Inhaling the steam of water in which drumstick has been boiled helps to relife asthma and other various lung problem. Drumstick soup helps to ease any kind of chest congestions, coughs and sore throats.In the case of mouth
• ulcers - If drumstick leaves are taken liberally It helps to cure mouth ulcers, cranker's sores.

• Nutritional value of drumstick leaves:--Drumstick leaves have Seven times more vitamin C than oranges to fight against many illnesses including cold and flu as it helps in congestion. and four times more vitamin A than in carrots to protect against our eye diseases, skin diseases, and heart diseases. It has four times more calcium than present in milk to build strong bones and teeth. It is three times more rich in potassium than bananas,which is essential for the functioning of the brain and nerves.

• It has twice the amount of the protein than in milk and almost equal amounts of proteipresent in eggs
• Medicinal uses
• The seeds are generally used to clean and purify dirty or hazy drinking water. It is pounded and wrapped in a muslin cloth, and dipped in jars or containers that has water in it.

• The bark of the drumstick plant contains a gum that is used for the treatment of various stomach ailments such as :---

• seeds are found to be highly beneficialas it helps a person when there is loss of appetite, colic pain and flatulence ,it removes gas from our stomatch,The pounded seeds acts as flocculent, taking impurities out of water solution.

Home remedies

• The decoction of the drumstick seeds is found to be helpful in dysmenorrhea or scanty menstruation in women. Papaya fruit and aloe vera juice are also useful in such cases.
• A hot infusion of the leaves provides relief in the case of skin diseases.The same kind of infusion can be bought to use in fevers to reduce temperature.
• The paste of the roots of drumstick plant can be used in swellings and abscesses(applied externally).
• Application of the oil obtained from the seeds of the drumstick reduces arthritic and rheumatic pain and swellings.Grind drumstick seeds or leaves to make a paste and mix lemon juice and appy on pimples to cure them as well as the scars left behind them.

we can make drumstick curry and eat it with our meals it provides over all health to us .