GrandMa Remedies...(by kumar)

Sore Throat
With your constant speech and eating, right from birth, your mouth and throat is one of the most over worked organ. If you had chewed it properly, the antiseptic chemicals contained in your saliva would have killed the germs in the mouth itself before they entered your throat. But unfortunately, we eat without chewing. We gobble food along with the germs contained in it. Now that we have gobbled it, we have the germs in our throat.

Thus a sore throat simply communicates the fact that you have abused your throat either by its over use or by wrongful eating. Quite naturally, you would get cured if you simply keep your mouth shut for the next forty eight hours taking ample fruit juice which is a great cleaning agent. If that does not work, opt for any of the following Home Medicines:

1 On a mixture of 1 tsp each of cinnamon and cardamom
Pour 1 glass boiling water
Filter and use for gargling

2 Boil ½ tsp each of powdered cinnamon and black pepper in one cup water
Add honey and drink

3 Boil fenugreek leaves with ½ cup moong dal and 10 small onions
Eat regularly

4 Chew a small piece of fresh ginger

5 Take a handful of leaves of lime; pour over it 1 cup hot water and take the water

6 Chew or suck a small piece of raw athimadhuram

7 Add 1 tsp turmeric powder to boiling water and inhale the vapour

8 If sore throat is due to cold, make pepper powder, add it to a spoonful of hot ghee and take

9 Before going to bed, take milk added with pepper powder and a little of turmeric powder for three days

10 Gargle with salt and ajwain seeds in warm water

11 Add a few dried rose petals to honey and chew frequently

Throat irritation

1 Powder 1 tsp fried cloves; mix with 1 cup warm water and gargle frequently

2 If throat irritation is due to coughing, chew 3 cloves with a pinch of common salt

3 Make a kashayam of Palm candy + little pepper + jeera + virali turmeric small piece and drink with one tea spoon of butter. Pepper and jeera to be fried and powdered before putting in kashayam

4 In case of ulcer in the throat, take jeera and palm candy and chew them together. After a little time, take warm water

5 Before going to bed, take milk added with pepper powder and a little of turmeric powder for three days

6 Lick a small piece of vasambu

Swelling in throat

Fry a handful of jasmine leaves in 1 tbsp gingelly oil and tie around the throat when bearably hot

Throat pain

1 Miix 1 tbsp each of lime juice and honey
Swallow tiny amounts slowly

2 Crush neem leaves in water, remove fibre, warm it up, add little honey
Use it for gargling

Fever

You can facilitate your body lose its heat by taking any of the following measures:

In feverishness:

Take one cup of lemon juice, add it to tender coconut water and drink

In fever

To bring down the temperature, as an external application, apply leaf juice of agathikeerai all over the body or soak a handful of vettiver in a jug of water and apply the infusion over forehead.

1 Make tea by boiling fenugreek seeds
Take thrice a day, if necessary adding little honey or lemon juice for taste

2 Make a cup of fenugreek decoction
Add 1 tsp fresh juice of ginger and 1 tsp honey
Drink

3 Make decoction of neem leaves
Add pepper powder and take

4 Add in warm water ½ tsp ground pepper and palm candy
Take at bed time

5 Take Anar fruit juice frequently

6 Clean handful of mint leaves and crush
Make a paste of
½ tsp black pepper, ½ tsp long pepper and 1 tsp dry ginger powder
Put all of them in 2 cups of water and boil till reduced to one cup
Filter and divide in 3 doses; take one dose - for three times the day

7 Take a pinch of saffron two times a day

8 Apply chandan paste on forehead to bring temperature down

9 Mix 2 tbsp saunf in one cup of water
Boil it till reduced to half
Filter and take 1 tbsp every morning and evening

10 Take two cups of water
Add 10 tulsi leaves plus 1 tsp powdered cardamom and boil to 1 cup
Add to this decoction milk and sugar to taste and take 3 times a day

11 Drink tea made from fenugreek seeds twice a day

It is Malaria if the fever comes on alternate days with body shivering and head ache. Sometimes, the patient may also have stomach upset and too much perspiration.

For bone fever, one can take the prescription given under [1] of cancer. In chronic fever, mix ¼ leaf juice of pavazhamalli with 1 tsp honey and take with warm water

Fever, followed by head ache, vomiting, fits and unconsciousness means it could be brain fever. Instead of waiting till unconsciousness, better consult a doctor

Skin Problems

1 For any skin infections make paste of fresh neem leaves and apply

2 For ulcers on the skin, steam the leaves of agathikeerai and apply. Even a paste of the seeds of this plant would help

3 For chronic skin diseases, you can rub neem oil in the affected areas

4 In suitable cases, you can take neem bath
For this, soak neem leaves in water, keep it under sun through out the day. And use the water in the evening

5 Boil a few arali leaves in adequate quantity of sesame oil. Cool and bottle. Apply on any skin ailments

6 Use tooth brush to clear your nails, fingers, toes, etc.

7 Apply latex of erukku

8 For rashes, make a poultice of fresh leaves of kuppaimeni and apply on the affected parts

9 For all skin ailments, grind handful of fresh jasmine flowers to paste and apply. Use this as soap also

10 Soak some neem leaves in bathing water for some time. Then use that water to bathe