Kurinja Keerai - Gymnema sylvestre - Meshashringi aka Madhunaashini

Kurinja Keerai - Gymnema sylvestre - Madhunaashini

Yesterday, my train escort's mom came home. A very lean lady with a heavy bottom, a radiant face, sharp nose, pleasant appearance on the whole. I offered her kuppaimeni parantha and keelanelli parantha with paneer. She said kuppaimeni parantha was not bitter. After a while, i showed her other paranthas. She told, how much her daughter disliked my favourite mooli parantha. She also told, how she disliked mom's ration rice yellowish idlis. So much for the government hoopla over scheme distributing inferior rice freely. People feed hens with that rice. And mom makes yellow idlis with that rice. Whatever! That aunty, told mom that she gave her husband kurinja leaves everyday for his diabetes. After reading wiki, i wanted to test, if kurinja keerai, indeed suppressed the sweet taste. No suppression in sweet taste, that i could discern, for i had gulab jamuns, and semiya payasam along with kurinja keerai.

She also introduced saaranai and karkataan keerai. Need to explore this sometime later.

Jamuns, Semiya payasam, Nei paruppu, Kurinja Keerai kootu, Carrot poriyal, Kothavaranga paruppu usili, Kondai kadalai sundal, Ullundu vadai, appalam, Mulangi Sambar, Okra kaara kolambu, Rasam, Curd

Kurinja keerai is a bit bitter, but it is very much eatable as a paruppu kootu with a liberal dose of coconut cumin seed paste.

Medicinal Benefits
See this blog

A member asked guruji, westerners ask us to eat less, more frequently, while we talk about fasts, eating one or two meals, or nothing at all. How to lose weight?

Guruji replied stating, eating meshashringi with honey increases metabolism and thereby helps reduce weight.

2015 update:
Rains, and no one to clean the terrace top, and nature takes over with mango, tamarind leaves decompose providing a nice layer of soil.