Burns?
Small Burns: Flush your burns with lots and lots of cold water—15 to 20 minutes worth or until the burning stops. But don't use ice or ice water—they can make your burn worse.
Clean Turmeric powder can be used as an antiseptic to heal small burns.
Chapped Lips?
Apply melted unsalted
Butter (Ghee) on your lips. Yummy! Just doing this twice a day can prevent chapped lips. Applying
Vaseline is very effective too.
Cough?
Drink a cup of hot milk with 1 tsp of palm sugar (not Jaggery), 1/2 tsp of pepper powder and 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder added.
Cracked heels
Take lukewarm water and soak in the heels for 10 minutes and scrap mildly to reduce thickness.
Apply petroleum jelly or Vaseline or Paraffin oil after drying the area and put on socks. Do this just before bed. You will see a difference in the morning when you take off the socks. Try it for a week or so.
Dandruff
Soak Two tbsp of Fenugreek
seeds overnight in water. In the morning, grind the soaked soft seeds
into fine paste and apply all over the scalp and leave it for half
an hour. Then wash the hair thoroughly. Doing this twice a week will
get rid of Dandruff completely.
Diarrhea
Drink a cup of strong black tea. It is very effective in controlling diarrhea.
You can add 1/4 tsp of powdered cardamom sand sugar for taste.
Feet falling asleep?
This is definitely a strange sensation -- you get up out of your seat, and all you feel from one foot is an uncomfortable tingling. That's because the prolonged pressure cuts off nerve signals to your brain.
Change the position: Once you reposition your body the nerve impulses are reestablished, but it may take minutes for everything to normalize. When blood flow returns to normal and nerve connections are back in tact, your sleeping body part wakes up and the pins and needles sensation goes away.
Strange, but pressing the lobe of ear for a few second works for some people!
Finger Cuts?
Small finger Cuts:
How to stop the bleeding? The fastest way to stop bleeding is to apply direct pressure. Place a clean, absorbent cloth—a bandage or a towel or a wet cloth —over the cut, then press your hand against it firmly. If you don't have a cloth, use your fingers. This will usually stop the bleeding within a minute or two.
Clean Turmeric powder can be used as an antiseptic to heal a small cut.
Gas
Trouble?
Mix 1/2 tsp dry ginger powder with a pinch of
Asafoetida and a pinch of rock salt, in 1 cup of warm water. Drinking this will be very effective in controlling Gas.
Glowing Hands and legs?
Apply some oil
(coconut oil or any cooking oil) on legs and hands and then scrub in sugar
crystals on the applied area till it dissolves. You will feel the difference - soft
and silky skin.
Goodnight Sleep?
Avoid drinking coffee or any caffeinated beverages for several hours before bedtime. Drink a glass of warm milk before going to bed. An amino acid tryptophan, found in milk helps your brain to relax and makes your fall asleep.
Heart burn?
Eating Almonds gives immediate relief in heartburn and having it everyday will help you a
lot.
Chewing basil
leaves (Tulsi) every morning will prevent heart burn completely.
Hiccups
How to stop Hiccups? Place a tablespoon of sugar in mouth and suck slowly. In most cases, it is a sure remedy. A study found that this stopped hiccups immediately in 19 out of 20 people. Repeat up to three more times at 2-minute intervals if necessary.
For baby hiccups, wet your finger and dip it in sugar and let baby eat the sugar off your finger.
Low Memory
Forgetting easily? Eating 7-8 almonds daily can improve memory. Soak seven almonds in water overnight. Remove the skin and boil it with a glass of milk. Drink the milk daily and chew the almonds.
Mouth ulcer?
Drink warm coconut milk (you can add sugar or honey for taste), keep the milk in your mouth for a while before swallowing. Applying fresh coconut milk on ulcers frequently will also help.
Oily Skin?
Wash your face with Hot water. Hot water plus soap will dissolve skin oil better than cold water and soap. Also using dark colored Clay masks or mud masks are worthwhile.
On the up side, oily skin tends to age better and wrinkle less than dry or normal skin. Today's curse; tomorrow's blessing!
Piles?
Take 1 tbsp black cumin seeds (shah Jeera), roast and mix with 1 tbsp of
raw black
cumin seeds and powder both together. Take 1/2 a tsp with a glass of water once a day.
Drinking a cup of milk boiled with a mashed banana thrice daily will also
help a lot.
Skin
Beauty!
Smoother Beautiful Skin? Our body needs plenty of water, doesn't matter if its summer or winter. Drink as much water as you can take. Not all at once...throughout the day and with meals. It will make your skin feel soft and smooth.
Sore throat?
Gargling with warm salt water (1 tsp of salt per glass of water) 5 times day will give
you big relief. Keep the water in your mouth for a minute at least.
Stuffy Nose?
Take a Turmeric Stick (Cooking Turmeric - not the round one) and light it like a cigar in a candle. Inhale the fumes, this will clear the stuffy nose.
Teeth
Whitening
Believe it or
not, strawberries will whiten your teeth. Rub fresh strawberry on your teeth
daily and watch. A strawberry may also be mashed and applied with a tooth brush. But be sure to brush your teeth IMMEDIATELY afterwards with fluoride toothpaste.
Tooth
Ache?
Place a whole clove between the aching tooth and your cheek. It can be held in place by holding your finger on the outside of the cheek. Chew the cloves a little to release their juice, then leave them in place for half an hour or so or until the pain subsides.
Vomiting?
Chewing fresh Tulsi (Holy Basil) is an effective remedy. Drinking Tulsi juice is more
effective. Coriander paste in water is also an effective remedy for vomiting. |
