Many scholars have spoken
about easy herbal collagen. I've shared a video on collagen before as well, but
let me share the simplest method here too, so that anyone who found the
previous method a bit difficult can now make it easily - herbal, homemade, with
their own hands.
Why
Homemade Is Better Than Store-Bought
When you buy ready-made
products from the market, you never really know what the next person is telling
you or what's actually inside. The packaging looks great, the video looks
great, but often what's inside is junk. It's better to make things yourself -
that way, it's far more trustworthy.
What Is
Collagen, Really?
Think of your body like a
car. A car needs engine oil and grease so it doesn't grind, overheat, or create
resistance between moving parts. That greasing is essentially what collagen
does in the human body - it's the same concept applied to us.
Method 1:
Aloe Vera Ghee
One of the best and
simplest methods: take 1 kg of aloe vera gel and cook it on low heat with 1 kg
of desi cow ghee. Once this ghee is prepared, use it to make sooji (semolina)
halwa - once or twice - and eat it. This makes excellent collagen.
This benefits the body
significantly. In earlier times, this was traditionally given to women after
childbirth, known as "panjeeri" - sometimes with some nuts and
seeds added, but the base preparation was the same. If this method makes sense
to you, it's genuinely simple, with nothing complicated about it.
Method 2:
Whole Psyllium Husk (Ispaghol)
There's been a lot of
confusion around psyllium husk (ispaghol). People were told about the
benefits of psyllium husk peel, and the whole community rushed to it -
discarding the seed and eating only the husk. But that's not right.
Whole psyllium seed offers
more benefits than the husk alone. On top of that, husk is often adulterated
with radish husk, and it costs more too - whole psyllium is around ₹400/kg,
while the husk goes for ₹1200/kg. So people end up buying an inferior product,
deceiving themselves, and paying more for it. It's better to just use whole
psyllium.
Unfortunately, whenever I
share something with good intentions for the community's benefit, some people
raise the prices on that very item - that's on them, not the advice.
How to use it: Soak
whole psyllium in the morning and drink it by afternoon - just one teaspoon in
a glass of warm water. Or soak it midday and drink it by evening. Take it at
night only if you're dealing with constipation - in that case, don't soak it
beforehand; just add it to lukewarm water and drink it right away. This too
helps build collagen - a simple method.
Method 3:
Using Leftover Psyllium Husk
If you already have
psyllium husk sitting at home, don't waste it - finish it off first. Soak one
heaping spoon in a glass of warm water at night (no need to take it during the
day). Once the water is drinkable, drink it. A few days of consistent use like
this also helps build collagen. Simple, not difficult.
Method 4:
Coconut Powder Water
Coconut powder is easily
available at any general store. Soak one teaspoon of coconut powder in 4–5
liters of warm water at night. In the morning, you can strain it or leave it as
is, and drink this water throughout the day. Do this for a few days, or even a
month, and it eliminates dryness/dehydration in the body. This coconut water is
genuinely very beneficial.
A note on real coconut
water: In places like Bangladesh, getting genuine coconut water is easy - the
coconut has three natural dark spots where the shell is soft; puncturing all
three (not just one) lets air in properly while draining. But elsewhere, be
cautious - sometimes tap or contaminated water gets mixed in with what's sold
as coconut water. That's why the powder method (soaked in warm water, strained
before drinking) is a safer, simpler alternative. A month of this is enough to
generate natural collagen.
This addresses dehydration
throughout the entire body - whether it's the skin, bones, glands, nervous
system, or muscles - all of it improves.
Why You
Won't Find This Marketed
These are all simple,
easier methods - but none of them can be turned into a profitable business. You
understand what I mean? If someone wants to sell collagen as a packaged
supplement, these methods won't work for that purpose.
Method 5:
Dried Okra (Bhindi) Powder - The Best of All
For that, here's what's
used instead: take about 10 kg of okra (bhindi), spread it out in the sun to
dry. Once dried, there's no need to remove the seeds. A 4-inch piece of okra
will shrink to about 1.5 inches once fully dried.
Keep turning it while
drying. Once it makes a crisp, dry sound, grind it into powder. This dried okra
powder is, honestly, one of the best forms of collagen there is. Among all the
different ways collagen can be made, dried okra powder stands out as excellent.
Dosage:
- Take a 1-gram capsule at night with lukewarm
water.
- For severe dehydration/emergency cases:
It's fine to take one capsule after every meal, roughly half an hour
later, with lukewarm water - no harm in that.
- For regular, long-term use as a supplement:
Just one capsule at night before sleeping - the largest size, 1000mg,
sometimes called a "double-zero" capsule.
If capsules aren't
available: No problem. In the past, capsules used to be made from natural corn starch
powder, but nowadays many capsules are made from plastic. A herbalist or
traditional practitioner can tell the difference, but the average person
usually can't. So it's better to skip capsules altogether - just take half a
teaspoon directly in your mouth at night, followed by a sip of lukewarm water.
So the best, simplest, and
most affordable collagen can also be made from dried okra powder.
Final
Thoughts
Keep all these methods in
mind - whichever one you're able to prepare, use, or even share with others,
all of these genuinely work. This is the simplest and most authentic remedy
there is.
Otherwise, the world keeps
wrapping these very same things in shiny plastic packaging, flashing lights,
and selling them for thousands - fooling people. What you make yourself is
always better.
Keep me in your prayers.
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