Written By: Tavishi Dogra | Updated : June 1, 2024 12:13 PM IST
Ascorbic Acid, generally understood as Vitamin C, is an essential micronutrient our body requires. It helps to protect cells and keep them healthy, as well as bones and blood vessels. It also helps to make collagen, an essential protein the body uses to make cartilage, skin, tendons, and ligaments. It ultimately helps heal wounds while repairing and maintaining teeth and bones. That is why Vitamin C is a great immunity booster and helps the body fight against diseases.
Vitamin C is now being used as a critical ingredient in skincare. However, it can help hair growth as well. Even though a Vitamin C deficiency can lead to dry hair and split ends, supplying the body with more micronutrients can promote hair health. Amla, or Indian Gooseberry, is known for its impact on hair. For a long, it has been consumed raw as jam, and some mix it in henna to get the desired result for hair. Even today, not many know that amla is a potent ingredient in Ayurvedic medicine and can help deal with many hair-related problems.
It detoxifies the body and helps aid digestion, leading to better metabolism. When your body feels better from the inside, it also impacts hair health. For hair, amla juice can help strengthen roots, making hair silky and smooth while preventing premature greying, a problem that people of all ages face. Amla, commonly found in UP and Rajasthan in India, finds many ways to be consumed in the country. Thus, amla pulp can be ingested as it is, in pickle form, or as juice to gain maximum benefit.
The most beneficial way to consume amla would be in juice form, as one can get concentrated pulp and reap more benefits even with less quantity. Make sure you drink fresh, cold-pressed amla juice. And, of course, it should be preservative-free. As a consumer, how would you know that the juice is made of fresh amlas? It will be pulpy rather than liquid and will have less water content and more nutrient concentration. Sedimentation occurs naturally in such products and proves that you are consuming the natural product, where no thickening agent has been added. It must be consumed within one month of opening the bottle and stored in a cool place.
Consume 30 ml of amla juice mixed with a cup of warm water once in the morning immediately after you wake up and then once half an hour after dinner. Within a week, the impact will help hair health, give you clear skin, and help your digestive system. So, imbibe Vitamin C and Amla and lead a healthier life.
