(Representative image)Believe it or not, most medicines required for the treatment of those diseases and pains that taunt us in daily life can be prepared at home:
Throat pain
►Apply mustard oil externally
Have pearl onions along with jaggery or sugar
Ear pain
►Heat old horse gram and add in three or four drops of honey and pour in the ear
►To remove body pain after Chikungunya
►Drink water boiled by adding equal quantities of dried ginger, black pepper, basil, asafoetida, garlic, Malabar tamarind, Epsom salt and mint leaf.
►Have coffee added with Sudarsanam tablet
Fever
Drink water boiled by adding equal quantities of dried ginger, black pepper, basil, asafetida, garlic, Malabar tamarind, Epsom salt and mint leaf. This is also ideal for ailments like cough, throat pain and headache.
►Have crushed basil leaf added with honey
►Cold and nasal congestion
►Steam inhale one teaspoon rasnadi powder added to two glasses of water
Indigestion
►Drink water boiled with ayamodakam (Bishop’s weed), dried ginger and asafoetida
►Have a mix of garlic juice and ginger juice
Swelling triggered by excessive scratching
►Have some clear ginger juice added with sugar for swelling from scratching due to allergy
►Turmeric could also be used to prevent such problems
Gas trouble
►Take 10 gm each of fried stone apple root, popped rice, cumin, Bishop’s weed, add water and boil. Have it three times a day.
►Chew down fennel seeds
