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Eat sweets and become healthy
AT LAST some sweet news for those who cannot eat sweets! City?s ?sweet king? Ram Asrey has come out with a medicinal range of methais which even sugar patients can eat. Many of these sweets are aphrodisiacs, rejuvenators, toners, anti-acidity and digestive agents. The formulas have come from noted Ayurvedacharyas and father-son duo Dayaram Awasthi and SR Awasthi. Papita burfi works as an antacid and appetiser, laddoo for sexual strength, salam misri is pitta-kshamak and is the costliest of all.
AT LAST some sweet news for those who cannot eat sweets!
City’s ‘sweet king’ Ram Asrey has come out with a medicinal range of methais which even sugar patients can eat.
Many of these sweets are aphrodisiacs, rejuvenators, toners, anti-acidity and digestive agents. The formulas have come from noted Ayurvedacharyas and father-son duo Dayaram Awasthi and SR Awasthi. Papita burfi works as an antacid and appetiser, laddoo for sexual strength, salam misri is pitta-kshamak and is the costliest of all.
Vaidya Dayaram Awasthi of Ganga Aushdhalaya gives credit to Ram Asrey for maintaining the quality of sweets till date. “Actually it was my son Dr SR Awasthi who had come up with the idea of medicinal mithai. He developed Ayurvedic yog for laddoo which is a combination of 16 medicinal herbs and jadi bootis,” says he. Admiring the qualities of his laddoo, he says: “These herbs rejuvenate and tone the body. This laddoo is a better rejuvenator than capsules presently available in the market”.
The things like kaunch beej, salam mishri, kewanch ke beej, dal chini, gokhuru, chilgoza, badam, pista, praval bhasm, lauh (iron) bhasm, tamba (copper) and jasta (zinc) are used in other medicinal mithais. The combination and ratio of these products are Ram Asrey’s trade secret. Some of the sweets are sugar-free which could be used by diabetic patients too.
Fresh, soft and juicy papaya barfi, harihar bhog made of kamal gatta, Ayurvedic laddoo made using 26 herbs, pista barfi, kesar barfi, kaju barfi, salam mishri and safed musli are all selling like hot cakes in spite of the high cost.
Salam mishri is priced at Rs 1,600 per Kg, while pista barfi is at Rs 650 a kg. The Ayurvedic laddoo is Rs 10 a piece, while other medicinal sweets are in the range of Rs 200-1600 per kg.
“The medicinal sweets are a big hit,” says proprietor Ram Asrey Suman Behari (Chowk).
The popularity of medicinal sweets could be gauged from the fact that around 12 varieties of these special sweets, are fast disappearing from the shelves, adds Suman.
