Peach: Benefits, Uses & Dosage

Peaches are sour and sweet, with a heating energy and a pungent vipak. They pacify vata and may promote pitta. Eating one peach may calm kapha, but more than one may stimulate mucous secretions in the lungs. Due to their heating energy and pungent vipak, peaches help kill worms in the colon.

• Intestinal worms: Eat 1–2 peaches on an empty stomach in the early morning. After ½ hour, drink 2 teaspoons castor oil mixed with 1 cup hot ginger tea. Do not eat or drink for at least 3 hours after.
• Kidney or bladder stones: Drink 1 cup peach juice mixed with ½ teaspoon coriander powder on an empty stomach, twice a day. Avoid tomatoes, spinach, salt or tamarind.
• High fever with burning urination (high pitta): Take 1 cup peach juice with ½ teaspoon cumin powder and 1 teaspoon rock candy or natural sugar.
• Constipation: Eat 1 peach an hour after meals.
• Vata aggravation (dry tongue, palpitation, fatigue, exhausted voice): Drink 1 cup peach juice with a pinch of rock salt, 10 drops lime juice and 1 teaspoon rock candy or natural sugar, 3–4 times a day.
• Sweating hands and feet: Eat 1 peach daily an hour after each meal.
• High blood pressure: Take 1 cup peach juice with a pinch of cardamom powder and 1 teaspoon coriander powder, 2–3 times a day.
• Bedwetting in children: Give 1 cup peach juice with 1 teaspoon vidanga powder, once a day for a few days. If vidanga is unavailable, substitute a pinch of ground black poppy seeds.