17 February, 2011

Some proven Indian home remedies for some common ailments



My father had an immense belief in natural home remedies. He had collected a great store of information and details on this subject and kept testing them whenever he could and found almost all of them to be hugely successful without any side effects or even additional costs. He himself never shied from adapting many of the remedies and largely due to this he was always in excellent health and body strength with not even a cold or cough approaching him ever. Consequently our whole family including a lot of his friends and neighbors as well as plenty of colleagues preferred to consult him first before visiting a doctor. As to us, we rarely needed a a doctor.

I have compiled some of his commonly used remedies here. Most of these have been personally tested by myself and I have found them to be excellent in getting rid of ailments; they are completely natural, without harmful artificial substances and also easily available. Most importantly they also do not have any side effects.
However if you want to try some of them make sure that you are not allergic to them and that firstly try only in a small quantity.

If you have any questions you can mail me or post your query in comments.

Waist / lower back pain and knee pain
1. Boil 6 gm methi ( Fenugreek) seeds with 20 gm. gur (Jaggery ) in a little water. Then drink this water either warm or cold.
2. Swallow methi ( Fenugreek ) seeds powder with water in morning for relieving knee pain.
3.  Mix dry aamla ( Indian Goose berry ) powder with double its amount of gur ( jaggery). make    small pea size pills; eat 3 pills daily for knee pains.
4.  Heat 1 spoon mustard oil in a spoon. Put ajwain ( Carom ) seeds and garlic and let it burn black . Massage with this warm oil is good for relieving body ache.

Sour Throat
1. Chew 20-15 pearls black pepper then drink warm water. Do this 4-5 a day.
2. Chew 4-5 black pepper with a little sugar or mishri at night before going to bed. 
3. Mix coarsely 1 tsp ground black pepper with 1 tsp mishri or sugar and 1 tsp desi ghee (clarified butter). make a paste and eat this, preferably at night just before going to sleep and do not drink water after this. This will regain your sweet voice and get rid of sour throat.

Eczema or other skin ailments / itching skin
1. Boil 250 gms mustard oil in an iron wok. Put 50 gms soft, tender neem leaves ( only baby leaves)  in the boilng oil. As soon as the leaves turn black, take off the wok, cool the oil, strain and store in a container. Apply this oil on affected area 3-4 times a day.
2. Eating 10 crushed black pepper mixed with 10 gm cow ghee ( clarified butter ) cures all skin ailments and itches.
3. Drink 1 glass water after chewing a little black pepper. This helps in curing many skin ailments.

High blood pressure
1. Eat plenty of water melons, litchis and carrots.
2. Eat 2 gms Sarpgandha powder twice a day with water.
3. Eating stale (wheat flour) chappatis soaked in milk in the morning stabilises high bp.
4. Eat mixture of 1 gm dry coriander, 1 gm sarpgandha powder and 2 gm ground mishri with water.
5. Consuming plenty of honey and lemons ( not together) is an excellent remedies for lowering bp
6. Eat / swallow 2 cloves of garlic every morning before breakfast in fact ideally even before brushing your teeth to keep your blood pressure normal throughout life.

Low blood pressure
1. Soak 32 kishmish ( raisins, whether green or black ) in 150 gm water for 12 hrs. Then refrigerate. You can keep increasing the water as it dries out. Chew just one kishmish out of this every morning.
2. Drink carrot juice with honey.
3. Eat carrot murraba ( sweet jam pickle of carrot)
4. Hing ( Asafoetida )is good for raising bp.

Diabetes
1. Grind dry Amla flesh ( Indian goose berry) and dry jamun ( Indian black plum ) stones in equal measure. Swallow 7 gm of this powder with fresh cool water every morning half an hour before breakfast.
2. Eat 10 green tender leaves of jamun with water in early morning for 10 days. Excess sugar will cease.
3.  Eat 10 gms leaves of bel tree ( wood apple) for 1 month.
4. Mix amla juice, jamun leaf juice and bel leaf juice in equal quantity. drink 1 spoon of this juice morning and evening.
5. Grind green tender jamun leaves and eat the paste in morning for 21 days. It will cure sugar in urine.
6. Consuming Aamla juice mixed with honey helps in diabetes.
7. Grind 5 fresh bel patra or wood apple leaves and 10 black pepper together. Mix with a little water. Drinking this water stops diabetes.
8. Grind 4 green and fresh jamun leaves in 60 gm water. Strain. Drink this water for 10 days. Then after 2 months drink for another 10 days. Good for stopping diabetes.
9. Put ripe jamun 60 gms in 300 gms boiling water then quickly switch off the flame and cover the dish.After half an hour, crush the paste and strain. Divide the whole paste in 3 portions and eat 1,1 portion 3 times a day. Cures urine glucose
10. Dry grind dried jamun stones and make its powder. Eat 2 spoons of this powder with water for 21 days.
11. Coarsely grind methi ( fenugreek ) seeds and soak in water overnight. swallow it in the morning. doing this for 2 months stops diabetes.
13.  Simply swallowing a tbs of raw methi seeds also helps curbing Diabetes as well as weight loss.
14. Soak about 10 cinnamon pieces in a bowl of water overnight. Drink this water in the morning half an hour before breakfast.
15.  Drinking juice of broad beans also cures diabetes.

Kidney Stone
1. Wet grind 30 gms papaya tree root in a little water. Drinking this water morning and evening.will cure stone in 1 week.
2. Drink apple juice.
3. Stuff 2 tola carrot seeds and beetroot seeds in a hollowed radish and dry roast the radish. then take out the seeds. eat 6 masha with water morning evening. stone will pass.
4. Stuff 23 gms carrots seeds and 23 gms turnip seeds in a hollowed radish. Then dry roast this radish preferably in ashes. Eat 6 gms seeds morning and evening for 6 months with water.

Good Health and Strength
1. Crush green aamla pulp. Mix equal amount of sugar or mishri and store in a glass jar. After 7 days eat one spoon of this paste morning and evening with water or milk.
2. Mix aamla powder in aamla juice and mix it well. After some time when it is soaked thoroughly, mix equal mishri and eat 1 spoon of this with water or milk.
3. Soak ripe aamla in lime water for a few hours. Take out and cook in sugar syrup. Eat this frequently.
4. Mix together half tsp aamla powder, half tsp honey and half tsp sesame oil. Eating 3 gms of this mixture for 1 month transforms the whole body.
5. Wash big ripe amla in lime water then cook in sugar syrup and store.Eat 2-4 aamla everyday for good health.

Brain Strengthening
1. Soak 10 almonds overnight In the morning, blanch them and mix with 1 gm mishri and butter. Eat this paste for 1-2 months.
2. Eat 4 almonds, mishri and saunf ( Fennel seeds) in equal quantity with hot milk at night. It increases eye sight and memory.
3. Mix together 100 gm almonds, 100 gms saunf ( Fennel )and 100 gms kuja mishri and make a powder. Eat 10 gm of this powder at night with milk and don't drink water after this. Excellent for memory strength, headache and eyes.

Improving eye sight
1. Swallow 1 tsp shatawar powder ( asparagus) with hot milk in morning. In 2 months eye sight will improve.
2. Mix together 4 almonds, mishri and saunf ( Fennel) in equal quantity. eat this with hot milk at night. It increases eye sight and memory.
3. Soak dry aamla overnight, then wash eyes in the morning with this water.
4. Wash eyes with trifala powder soaked overnight.It can also be eaten with a little desi ghee early morning.
5. Eat aamla powder with water, ghee or honey at night.
6. Drink 1 ounce fresh aamla juice with honey in the morning and wash eyes with trifala or amla powder water This can even stop cataract.
7. Swallow 5 fresh til ( Sesame )flowers in the month of April. The eyes will not pain for the whole year.
8. Mix onion and ginger juice and put 2 drops in the eyes to cure night blindness
9. Fill a glass container with lemon juice and put one turmeric root in this for 40 days. Apply this turmeric mixed with rose water at night in eyes.

Weight Reduction
1. Drink hot water after every meal. The water should be as hot as tea and must be sipped slowly.
2. Warm a glass of water. Add 1 spoon of honey and half a lemon's juice into it. Then drink it early in the morning everyday. Lemon juice must be freshly extracted.
3. Drink warm water with just1-2 tbsp of lemon juice early morning before breakfast and before going to sleep at night.

For regaining lost strength
Cook 250 gms onion juice in half kg honey. Eat 1 spoon morning and evening.

Heart strengthening and general body strength
1. Soak 24 gms kishmish and 1 ratti kesar in 150 gms water in an earthen pot and cover the pot with fine muslin cloth and keep it overnight in open space in dew. In the morning eat the kishmish and drink the water. Do this just for 8 days to strengthen your heart.
2. Dry grind mung dal. Roast it in gheè or clarified butter and add mishri. It is a good tonic for heart.

General body strength
cook 1 kg grated carrot and 1 kg grated pumpkin in 4 litres of milk. Then roast it in 250 gms ghee or clarified butter. Add 10 eggs and half kg sugar. Eat this for 1 month.


Calcium Deficiency
Mix aamla juice 11 Gms, lime water 11 Gms and honey 11 Gms  and drink it frequently.

Anemia
1. Eating mango pulp mixed with yogurt and sugar increases blood.
2. Soak 5 raisins either green or black in water overnight. Then eat these in the morning with milk or without anything.
3. Make a health soup by cooking together bits of carrot, radish, spinach, beetroot, onion, ginger and garlic. It can be stored in the fridge for 2-3 days safely. eat one bowl morning and evening.
4. Eat 1 tbs honey morning and evening.
5. Drink orange, carrot, apple, grapes mix juice.(best if home extracted and not the market' ready made ones)
6. Eat wheat grass powder or juice.
7.  Eat fresh salad with plenty of carrot, radish, grated beetroot and salad leaves with lemons.
8. Soak 2 ( only 2 ) leaves of saffron in milk overnight. Next morning boil it in 200 Gms or a glass of milk and drink it everyday.

Bed wetting Children 
Give them dry dates to eat at night for some days.

Stopping watery lose motions
Swallow a small piece of camphor or capoor with water.

Protection against common seasonal cold/ remedy for cold
1. Drink hot water immediately on arising in the morning and just before going to bed. Can also be had before going out in extremely cold weather during anytime in the day or night.
2. Rub a nutmeg on a stone surface using a little water to obtain nutmeg paste. Very little is necessary. Lick just a drop or 2-3 and drink water or milk after it. It prevents cold. It is especially useful for infants and babies.
3. Eat a spoon of honey with a glass of milk every morning to prevent catching cold. Mysteriously eating an independent spoon of honey with milk and honey spread toasts are two different things.

Dry coughing
Chew 2-3 whole cloves without swallowing them and let them remain in your mouth for 2-5 hrs as their juice mingles with saliva and sooths the irritated throat. This is especially useful if one cannot sleep due to atrocious coughing.

Stammering
Mix almond, butter and mishri and make a paste. Give a spoonful to the child to eat every day.

Cough
Burn garlic in a little mustard oil and then massage chest with this oil.

Migraine
Lick tulsi or Basil powder/paste with honey in morning and evening.

For strengthening liver
Peal raw papaya, cube it in small pieces and soak in vinegar for 8-10 days. Eat 2-3 cubes after every meal to strengthen liver.

Excess Urine
1. Take black till 45 Gms, Ajwain 20 Gms and gur 60 Gms. wet grind these and mix together. Eat 60 Gms with water in morning. This will cure too much urine even in old age.
2. Eat anaar ka chhilka ( pomegranate peel )crushed with 4 gm water twice a day. Caution: don't eat rice.
3. Crush black till (sesame )200 gms. Cook in gur ( jaggery )250 gms. Make into small balls. One ball for children and 2 for adults.
4. Cook 25 gm chopped onion pieces in one kg water. Drink this water 3 times a day. It helps in curing painful urination, frequent urination and full flow.

Pregnancy
1. Grate green aamla and keep it in a glass container. Sprinkle some rose petals and then pour honey till all the aamla is covered. Keep the container in sun for 8-10 days. Eat 1 spoon with milk. It is very good to eat during pregnancy for a healthy baby.

Good general health
Grind fresh green aamla and mix with fresh green aamla juice then let it dry. Eat this stuff 1 sppon twice a day with milk.

Body Strength
Soak 5-10 munakka or sultanas in milk or water overnight. In the morning boil it in a glass of milk. Add a spoon clarified butter or ghee and drink it everyday morning.

Hair Fall
1. Massage scalp with lemon juice.
2. Soak 200 Gms aamla powder in a little water for 2 hrs. Mix 1 whole lemon juice in this and wash hair with this water.(for long hair you will need double the amount)
3. Mix trifala powder with crushed gur and make berry size pills and store in a glass container. Eat one pill early morning before brushing teeth. It helps in blackening hair.
4. Take equal quantity of aamla juice and till ( sesame)oil and cook on heat. When all the water in this mixture is burnt, turn off heat and cool and store in a glass jar. Apply this on hair for strengthening hair roots and hair blackening.
5. Apply aamla juice mixed with lemon juice on scalp.
6. Crush unripe aamla and apply directly on scalp for stopping hair fall.