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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Home Remedies
All of us fall sick sometime or the other. It is only the ninety year and eighty year olds who are blessed with a wonderful constitution and did not face the need to go to a doctor off and on. However, we an easily resort to some age old home remedies for some minor ailments.
Cold-- you can easily battle a cold with steam inhalation at home. Keep gargling with warm saline water and this prevents infection in one’s throat. . Drinking soup with plenty of pepper, crushed garlic and salt also helps in diluting the phlegm in the chest and soothes the throat.
Stomach upsets- Make a decoction with ajwain and cumin seeds and drink this twice if there is a rumbling sound in your stomach. Swallowing fenugreek seeds or drinking buttermilk with fenugreek seed powder also helps in treating colic.
Take a cup of very hot rice, mash it and have it with buttermilk seasoned with dried ginger powder. This is an effective remedy against diarrhea. Sago powder made into a porridge using buttermilk also helps in this ailment. Keep drinking plenty of water ;add a pinch of salt and a teaspoonful of sugar to one litre of water and drink this every now and then.This will prevent dehydration.
Headache-- Boil water with two or three cloves in it and drink this hot. Steaming hot tea made with ginger also helps treat a headache. Powder half a teaspoonful of pepper, a pinch of dried ginger, a half an inch long cinnamon stick, one clove and add this to a large glass of boiling tea and have it hot. This also helps relieve headache.Make a paste of dried ginger and apply this on your forehead. It will burn severely but the headache will be gone.