If it is to be cooked, short boiling or steaming is best. Raw cabbage juice is highly effective in the healing of ulcers and acidosis. It is good carminative, stomachaches, stimulant, flavouring agent and aromatic. The value of dates from health point of view is superb. It is wholesome, easily digested and assimilated.
Dates contain a very high percentage of sugar in natural form, which is immediately absorbed.
They are rich in protein, lime, iron, vitamins and other essential food constituents, which are a wholesome substitute for cane sugar. Dates and milk form an important part of the diet of those suffering from an ulcerated stomach. Of its root rub or grind it with rice- washed water and drink it for 3 days in the mornings.