Does Jaggery help in Dengue: find out!

Covid is recent, dengue has been a mainstay for long. Come rains and humidity is high in the atmosphere; making it ideal to breed mosquitoes. About one in four people infected with dengue get sick. While it is easy to fall prey to the mosquito-borne viral disease, recovery can take its time. Home remedies to handle dengue have been a traditional practice in many countries for several years; whenever someone contracts the disease, friends and family share tales of how fluids can speed up recovery. However, natural home remedies can speed up your healing process and replenish the body by providing essential nutrients in time of need.

Home care for dengue fever is supportive, sensible, mindful, healthful care. You need to take something which helps you stay hydrated and builds your immunity naturally to fight the viral infection naturally.

While we are not health gurus, we do value what our customers share with us. One such home remedy, we have been told, is taking jaggery and raw onion (shallots), together. This has been found to alleviate  dengue fever. We do believe strongly, however, that jaggery is great to build your immunity naturally and so strengthens you internally. When you're strong inside, you tend to fight disease much better. With that in mind, we surely endorse using jaggery in your diet as a great way to combat viral infections- dengue, covid or any other.

The internet is loaded with news articles about ‘jaggery and onion as a cure for dengue’, so we'll leave you to your own research. However, we have pinned down some research articles that may help everyone interpret the information available.

https://www.esic.nic.in/attachments/publicationfile/7d11b02e5abb4717d53b4ce05efabd21.pdf

https://www.nhp.gov.in/pitha-suram-dengue-fever-_mtl

http://ipindia.gov.in/writereaddata/Portal/IPOJournal/1_114_1/official-journal-25-12-2015-part1.pdf

*DhampurGreen is not responsible, in any way, for the information available on the cited articles, nor does it endorse anything medically. This is solely to the reader’s interpretation and understanding.