Keep your ear-holes covered with your fingers for 30 minutes. Persistent hiccup problem will vanish.
Just keep a teaspoon of sugar in the mouth. again, hiccups will vanish.
Having halitosis – bad smell from the mouth? – mix a pinch of salt in lemon juice and take or else use this to gargle. The bad smell from the mouth will disappear.
To stop yawning – the main reason for yawns is the shortage of oxygen. So, inhale and take deep breaths 4 to 5 times. The yawns will stop and activeness will be restored.
To cure foul body odour – Just mix the juice of one tomato in the water before taking bath – you will feel fresh indeed throughout the day!
Did scalp-hair got swallowed and enter the stomach? Don’t worry. Take a single rice grain and put it in either banana or a betel leaf and swallow. The complaint of loose motion will stop while the swallowed hair goes out.
Suffering from the seasonal venal polyps? Crush some white garlic, mix with lime (sunnambu) and apply on the affected areas of polyps. They will break.
Hair care or to cure hair-fall - Rub ice cubes on the areas where hair had fallen.
Soak some poppy seeds in a few spoons of milk and mix this with green gram flour. Apply this mixture on the head. Hair-fall will get cured.
Mix the juice of Aloe Vera in some coconut oil and apply on the head. Hair-fall will stop. Hair growth will become denser and better. Further, this will cool the head as well.
Take the juice of some small onions and apply on the head. Keep for some time and then wash. This will cure hair-fall.
Mix some hibiscus flowers crushed in some coconut oil and apply on the head. Hair-fall will stop. Also, the hair will grow darker.
Rub the white of egg on the head, keep for 10 minutes and then take bath using Sigaikkaai (Acacia Concinna). Hair-fall complaint will be thoroughly cured.
Grind a few bunch of the leaves of ‘Mudakkathan keerai’, and apply this paste on the head. Kep for 5 minutes and then take bath. Do this regularly for 3 months. Hair-fall will absolutely stop. This also prevents hair from graying. There will be healthy growth of dark hair.
Crush 3 cardamom pieces into powder. Dissolve this in some teaspoons of ghee (clarified butter) and heat. Mix and then strain Take a few drops and drop in the nostrils. This will remove any block on the breathing.
Chew the mixture of 4 betel leaves and 3 peppers for some time and then swallow. This will cure ‘ Neerkovai’ and ‘ Thalaibaram’ (water entering the head and leading to a feeling of heaviness on the head).
If there is a complaint of continuously running nose, grind some nutmeg with some small quaintly of water, heat for some time and apply this paste on the forehead and the nose.
Take some quantity of dry ginger, crush, and then make decoction with a glass of water. Mix this with some honey and drink. This is a surefire cure for cold.
Take a bunch of flowers from the neem tree. Add some salt, red or green challis, and coconut and grind. Tamarind flower ‘chutney’ is ready. A great side dish with idlis. This will serve as a cure for cough as well.
While grinding the batter for idlis, cut a few pieces of okra (lady’s finger or Vendaikai) and add this to the batter along with a teaspoon of castor oil before grinding and then grind. The batter will be extremely soft just like jasmine flower.
In case o of any burns are sustained on the hand while cooking, take the white of the egg and apply on that place. Or else, crush a bit of beetroot, make a thick juice and apply on the hurt place.
To remove the extent of the bitterness of the bitter gourd, soak the bitter gourd (before cutting) in the water which was used for washing rice.