Ingredients:
- Remedies for Gas problem.
Method:
- Gas- Bake ‘vasambu’ on the flame and cover it with a big vessel. Remove and powder it. It looks like ‘black powder/kari powder’ . Have ½ spoon of it with sugar and drink with warm water. ‘Gas problem pooya poochu’ But be careful while baking the vasambu on the flame. It must become red hot after that only you can remove it from the flame. If is ‘raw’ you cannot powder it and also it will give Sevier stomach pain.
- Gums (bleeding)-Massage the gums lightly with coconut oil.
- Squeeze a half lemon into a cup of water and drink.
- Headache -Dilute a paste of ginger powder (half teaspoon) with water & apply to the Forehead. You may feel burning sensation but its not harmful.
- Lack of Sleep -Gently massage the soles of the feet with sesame oil. Rub oil into the scalp.
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- Drink a cup of piping hot cow milk with rock candy or honey.
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- Keep your feet in a tub filled with warm water and salt. It will give you freshness. Even you can try this when your legs are paining.
- Swelling-Drink barley water
- Toothache-Apply 3 drops of clove oil to the affected teeth.
Ingredients:
- Remedies for Ear ache and body heat.
Method:
- Ear ache- Use 3 drops of garlic oil in your affected ear.
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- Just hear ‘seasame’ oil and while it is warm use 3 drops.
- Exhaustion (heat)- Consume a glass of coconut water or grape juice.
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- Take a tabsp full of fenugreek seeds and soak them over night. Eat them as it is in the morning.
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- have a oil bath or you can use Hibiscus /‘Chemparuthy leaves’ to take hair bath.
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- you can use ‘Vadi kanji’ instead of Hibiscus leaves. It will make you head very cool and shine your hair.
- Overeating -Rroast 2 sp fennel seeds in ghee and pour 2 to3 cups of water. Allow it to reduce by ½. Filter it and add Palm candy or Palm Jaggery and drink.
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- Take a cup of warm water and pour one sp ghee on it. Just drink it.
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- use ‘dabur amla oil’ for hair in summer season, so that your body will not affect by heat.
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- just eat fennel seeds, fried in ghee with sugar, whenever it is possible.
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- drink un boiled ‘cow milk’
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- The best one is make banana milk shake and drink. This is the best one to reduce our body heat.
- Eyes burning-Apply Castor oil to the soles of the feet.
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- put 3 drops of pure rose water into the affected eye.
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- keep one piece of cucumber on each eye and lay down for a while.
Ingredients:
- Some home remedies for bad breath and boils.
Method:
- Bad Breath-Wash your mouth with lime juice mixed with water. This will prevent bad breath.
- Bleeding external-Apply ice cube.
- Boils-Betel leaves are a valuable remedy for boils. Just show a leaf on flame and apply a coate of castor oil on that. Just place the leaf on the affected area.
- Burns-Add coconut oil to the paste of fresh gel of ‘aloe vera’ (In Tamil we used to say ‘Kattrazhi’) blended with a pinch of turmeric Powder and apply.
Ingredients:
- In this I gave some home remedies for Asthma and Backache etc.,
Method:
- Acne-Grated cucumber applied over the face ,eyes and neck for fifteen minutes are very much beneficial for acne and blackheads.
- Asthma-Take a teaspoon of fresh ginger juice mixed with a cup of fenugreek decoction and honey to taste. This mixture acts as an excellent treatment of asthma.
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- if you don’t like this you can take a cup of hot coffee.
- Backache- Garlic is the most important home remedy for backache. Oil prepared form garlic and rubbed on the back will give a good result in backache.
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- if you can you can hear the dusk of wheat in a kadai and put it in a cloth and ask somebody to give you ‘othadam’ by that. That is ask them to tie the cloth; keep it on the back where you have more pain in equal intervals. This will give you a good relief.
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- otherwise use a hot water bag and lay down on the bed and keep the bag on your back.
Ingredients:
- Remedies for cold and caugh
Method:
- Cold-Boil teaspoonful of ginger powder or eucalyptus leaves in one quart of water & inhale the steam.
- Congested nose- Inhale eucalyptus oil or Vicks!
- Constipation-Dont forget to take in a glass of hot milk with a teaspoon of clarified butter at bedtime.
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- Drink a glass of boiled water with one teaspoon of flax seed.
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- The best to take one apple or any fruit in the night, before going to bed.
- Cough-Add a pinch of salt with two pinches of turmeric powder to one glass of warm water and gurgle.
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- chew a clove with a piece of Sugar Candy/‘misry’ (KalKandu)
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- Keep a piece of ‘Chita rathai’ in your mouth.
- If your cough has been troubling you for long, try this: Take a half teaspoonful of ginger powder, a pinch of clove with a pinch of cinnamon powder and honey in a cup of boiled water and drink it as tea.
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- you can take 1 cup of hot milk with a pinch of turmeric powder and add a spoon of crushed cumin and black pepper fried in ghee.
Ingredients:
- For this you can use manatha kaali keerai, agathi keerai and coconut.
Method:
- 1. Take one hand full of manatha kaali keerai and just wash and put it in your mouth.
- Just chew them for a while. This will give you a good relief from the mouth sour.
- 2. You can prepare kootu with manatha kaali keerai and eat with rice or chappati.
- That will also heal mouth sour, toung sour and also stmoach sour.
- 3. You can make soup of manatha kali or agathi keerai and drink.
- 4. Take 2 sp of fresh coconut and chew them. Just swallow the milk and not the balance coconut.
- 5 Or you can drink coconut milk with out sugar. Just keep the milk in your mouth for a while and then swallow it.
Ingredients:
- These are some tips for pregnant ladies.
Method:
- If you feel swelling on your legs and hand, put barley water and drink. You can drink this water instead of normal drinking water.
- Daily apply coconut oil on your stomach and hip before taking bath.
- After 8 months, you can pour hot water on your hips, stomach and legs before you go to sleep.
Ingredients:
- Remedies for babys constipation.
Method:
- We use dried grapes with seeds and those are big in size to avoid constipation.
- Take 2 of them and put them in water in the night.
- Next day morning remove the seed from that and make like a paste by your hand and feed to your baby.
- If you are having small baby which is below 6 months use 1 grape per day.
- If it is more than 6 months you can use 2.
- For small babies, remove the seeds and add some more water with the soaked grapes.
- And take just water from that and feed them.
- You can eat the rest.
- Another one is, Take one teaspoon of honey and add it in warm water and mix well.
- Feed this to your baby in the morning in empty stomach.
- This is one of the best ways to avoid constipation.
- You can start this for your baby from 10th day itself.
- I used to give this my son Krishna.
Ingredients:
- Some remedies for itching problem.
Method:
- Reduce in take of Egg plant that is Brinjal, lemon, tomato and Tamarind.
- Before taking bath put hand full of fresh neem leaves in water and take bath.
- If you dont get neem leaves change your bath soap. That is check and buy herbal soap.
- Check where you are drying cloths and also check your shelf where you keep dresses.
- You can pour 10 to 15 ml Udicolen in a bucket water and take bath with that.
- If Itching is caused due to dryness of the skin, you can apply the cream of milk or any moisturizer.
- If your body sweats more, you may have itching more due to salt in sweat. So take more quantity of water to dilute your sweat.
- Temporarily you can apply vibudi / விபூதி.
Ingredients:
- For running nose, you have to find out is it because of over cold or over heat.
- Then only it is possible to tell some remedies.
- Any how here Let me give some.
- You try one by one. ok?
Method:
- If it is because of over cool:
- 1. Peel a small piece of ginger and gently chew the root, swallowing the juice. Ginger warms the body and increases blood circulation and helps to drain the nose, relieving the symptoms of runny nose.
- 2. You can make ginger tea and drink.
- 3. Take honey with ginger in warm water will give you good relief from cold. Take this two three time in one day.
- 4. Take Tulasi tea.
Ingredients:
- For running nose, you have to find out is it because of over cold or over heat.
- Then only it is possible to tell some remedies.
- Any how here Let me give some.
- You try one by one. ok?
Method:
- If it is because of heat:
- 1. Take raw sonf frequently
- 2. Take one banana and make milk shake out of that. Drink. One time one day. This will make your body cool immediately.
- 3. Drink raw cows milk in the morning.
- 4. Take a spoon of fenugreek seeds and wash well. Put it in a cup of water in the night.Morning just eat with that water. This will also cool your body.
- 5. Take cucumber raw or raitha.
- 6. Add more milk and curd in your food.
- 7. Drink 2 to 3 times tea adding black pepper in it.
- 8. Drink mint tea.
- 9. Take 10 small onions and fry in oil and add some salt. take as it is.
- 10. If you dont want to fry them, you can MW it with salt and take.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 sp Asafetida
- 1/2 sp ghee
Method:
- In a pan just put 1/2 sp ghee and put 1/2 sp asafetida powder.
- Let it fry.
- Immediately pour 2 cups of water and allow it to boil.
- When it reduces 1/2 the quantity, remove and serve hot.
Notes:
- You can drink this when you feel pain.
- If it is false pain the pain will reduce and if it is a real pain the pain will increase.
- So that you can go to doctor.
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon Sonf
- 2 sp crushed palm jaggery/ palm kalkandu/sugar
- 2 cups of water
- 2 sp ghee
Method:
- Pour 1 sp ghee and fry sonf well.
- Once the auroma comes add the water and palm jaggery.
- Let it boil reduce to 1/2 cup.
- Switch off the stove and serve it warm bypouring 1 sp ghee on it.
Notes:
- This kashyam, you can drink when you feel more heat in your body.
- Normal people can drink this kashyam, when they feel stomach pain due to heat.
Ingredients:
- 1 teaspoon Jeera
- 2 sp crushed palm jaggery (karupatti in Tamil)
- 2 cups of water
Method:
- This you can prepare and drink twice a week.
- Dry roast the jeera in a pan.
- Once the auroma comes add water and palm jaggery.
- Allow it to boil and let it reduce to 1/2.
- Drink as it is or you can add a sp butter.
- You can drink as per your wish.
- That is you can drink this kashyam very hot or hot.
Notes:
- You can add normal jaggery if you dont like pam jaggery; but best is palm jaggery.
- Even you can add sugar.
