It enhances the spirit and uplifts the soul. That’s the literal that means of the Persian phrases “Rooh Afza”. It’s in fact the century previous model title, 115 years-old to be exact, of the summer season sherbet or the focus used to make cool drinks. Claimed to have been made out of 22 substances that included watermelon, mint, carrot, spinach, water lilies, herbs and sandalwood coriander seed, it has survived the onslaught of aerated drinks like Coca Cola, Pepsi and even fruity juices over a century. Through the years it has come to be related to the holy month of Ramazan within the subcontinent.
Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed is credited to have concocted the syrup someday in 1907. A 12 months earlier he had arrange Hamdard Dawakhana within the Lal Kuan space of previous Delhi and the syrup was meant to beat the scorching warmth of Delhi and as a medicinal treatment to abdomen illnesses.
The Hakim sahib clearly was keen on poetry as each the names, Rooh Afza and Hamdard (actually a companion in ache) would recommend. The title of the syrup can be attributed to Pandit Daya Shankar Naseem’s Masnavi Gulzar -E- Naseem, through which Rooh Afza was the title of the daughter of King Firdaus.
The opposite substances are stated to be khurfaseeds, wine grape raisins, chicory, European white lily, lotus and coriander moreover citron, orange, apple, pineapple, berries, blackcurrant whereas the important floral essence is added by Damask rose, kewra or screw pine and flowers of orange, lemon all sure robust with roots of vetiver.
