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Explores mahua oil as a natural remedy for dry skin and its general health benefits.
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A resilient village woman nurtures her family and community through traditional farming, future planning, and the strength of women's voices in Sundargarh.
By cherishing and utilizing the traditional foods and herbs found in our forests and lands, we can sustain ourselves and combat malnutrition while preserving our natural heritage.
We ensure our children's well-being and cultural continuity by teaching them about the forest's bounty and the richness of our ancestral language and traditions.
After the main harvest, we harness the land's natural moisture to cultivate a vital second crop, ensuring food and oil for our families.
Consuming Mahua dolly fruit oil is beneficial for the body.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Mahua oil cures our dry skin.
— Kekti Tekam
Oil is extracted from moong seeds. That oil cures our dry skin.
— Kekti Tekam
Mahua seeds heal dry skin.
— Kekti Tekam
Regarding certain points, this is the good health one achieves by consuming Mahua oil.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Mahua oil has vitamins and if you make and eat Mahua ladoo, the body remains healthy and good.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
Mahua Dolly oil should be fed as fat.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Dali oil provides good nutrition.
— Sathimambalaka · Tado, Rayagada, Odisha
Oil is extracted from Mahua seeds. This oil is a little bitter.
— Kekti Tekam
Oil and Amla
— Manjusha Marko · Dudhi, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Mahua has good vitamins; it will be beneficial if eaten after cooking.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
Eating Mahua fruit is our medicine.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Eating boiled Mahul (mahua flowers) or ladoos made from them will keep your body healthy and cure anemia.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
There are vitamins in mahua. It tastes good if you make and eat idli from mahua.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
If Mahua is added to our food, it will provide vitamins.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We get our nutritious diet from the forest, such as Mahua fruit Doli oil in the form of fat, Kodo, Bhaddi, Kulthia, Mahua flowers, Jamun, Mahua kheer, Bhaji, etc.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Eating Mahua flowers kept health good.
— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua has many vitamins. We eat mahua by boiling it or by making cakes from it.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
The Mahua from our forest is very rich in vitamins and is given to children as food for their nourishment.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
The drumstick plant is beneficial for us.
— Sunita Kumari
Mahua is one of the most nutritious food items, which is very beneficial for our health. Along with this, coarse grains (millets) are also beneficial for health. They should be included. PDS.
— संगीता मीणा · Metali, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
Mahua was available in our area. We used to say that eating boiled mahua keeps the body healthy. Even now, if consumed after boiling, the body remains good.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua fruit/extract contains vitamins. It would be beneficial if given to school children to eat and if one also consumes it.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahula is available in our area. We have a lot of Mahula, even for pimples, Mahula is present. If we make cakes or chocolates and give them to children, they will be able to eat nutritious food.
— Benedik Dungdung · Sundargarh, Odisha
We have found Mahua. In ancient times, people used to boil and eat Lukra Mahua, and they used to get vitamins. In this era, if Mahua is eaten, the body remains healthy.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Ointment of drumstick plants
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Mahua is found in the forest, it is a very vitamin-rich food, it would be good to give this to children.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua flowers and other foods obtained from the forest are very nutritious. Therefore, it is appropriate to include these foods in PDS or mid-day meals.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua-made food
— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
News is that Mahua will be available, and Mahua has a lot of vitamins. If you make cake or ladoo from Mahua, eat it.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua is available in Amara. Previously, mahua cakes were cooked and eaten. It would be good to cook and eat them now too. Your body will remain healthy.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
If mahua is provided in PDS as laddus made from Etia Chakuna, then nutritious food can be obtained, and it can be good for the elderly or like milk porridge.
— Laxmi
In the most powerful wild, Mahua Gubar ate from the word, and Mahua absorbed the rope's oil.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We used to eat Mahua before, all kinds of Mahua, Rama Mahua. Because we ate all that, our body used to stay well. If you eat that, you too will stay well again.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
In ancient times, people used to boil and eat Mahua. Mahua has many vitamins and is nutritious food. It would be good if it was given in schools.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
Among forest products, Mahua is also a nutritious food. It would be good if the government utilizes this Mahua in various ways and provides it in school mid-day meals.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahul is found in the forest. If pitha made from mahul is given to children, their mental and physical health will remain good.
— Laxmi Bagh · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
In the past, people used to boil and eat mahua from the village, which contained vitamins. Even now, if mahua is boiled and eaten, it will still be beneficial.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua has vitamins. People used to eat it boiled before, and it would be good to eat it boiled now.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Including ladoos made from Mahua, a food found in our forests, in the school's mid-day meal will be nutritious for children.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
