HOME REMEDIES IN AYURVEDA

ASTHMA : Powder the fruit of Peepal and Let it dry in shade. Take 5 grams of Powder with Luke warm water or warm milk.

CATARACT : The use of Garlic is effective home remedy for cataract. Two or three cloves should be eaten raw daily. They should be chewed slowly. Garlic helps to clean the crystalline lens of the eye.

CRACKLING OF BONES : Each time when you hear your bones crackling while you sit or stand ponder since it is a sign of bone degeneration. To avoid this take muli (raddish) juice. Grate muli and squeeze to extract juice out of it.

DRY COUGH : Lady fingers are highly valuable in treating irritation of the throat and a persistent dry cough. This vegetable is rich in mucilage and acts as a drug to allay irritation, swelling and pain. About 100 grams of lady’s fingers should be cut into pieces, and boiled down in half a litre of water to make a decoction. The steam issuing from this decoction may also be inhaled once or twice a day to relieve throat irritation and dry cough.

CHICKEN POX : Baking soda is a popular remedy to control the itching in chicken pox. Some baking soda should be put in a glass of water. The child should be sponged with this water, so that the soda dries on the skin. This will keep the child away from scratching the eruptions.

DANDRUFF : Apply multani mitti with lemon juice on scalp; let it dry and wash with water.

LOSS OF APPETITE : Take luke warm salted lemon water daily before meals for one month. This will increase appetite and improve digestion.

DIARRHEA : In case of watery stools, roast unripe bael (Bilv) directly in fire. Peel it and take half a teaspoon of pulp with water. Take it at least twice a day.

PRICKLY HEAT : Drink daily a glass full of shikanji or lemon water, salt and black pepper. Or else bath with dahi (curd) and for cooling effect take lassi empty stomach in the morning.

HAIR FALL : Boil 100 grams of neem leaves in water, allow to cool and use this for head bath. Neem is an antibiotic it prevents hair fall duet to any scalp infection.

PILES : Decoction of unripe fruit of bael prevents inflammation of piles.

ARTHRITIS : Make a paste of rai and salt and heat it. Place it hot in a cloth and apply on the inflames joint.

SCIATICA : Take 10 grams turmeric with 5 grams castor oil daily for 3 months to relieve pain and nerve inflammation.

CALCIUM DEFICIENCY : If white patches appear on face due to calcium deficiency then add onion in your food and salad. Take a glass of milk twice a day, add paneer to your meal, and eat lots of sprouts and onions and tomatoes.

CONSTIPATION : Sugar cane juice promotes action of intestinal flora and is helpful for those suffering from constipation.

DRY COUGH : Place lemon mixed with black peeper in mouth. Do not chew. This helps in all kinds of throat infections.