Some immensely useful tips to know
Posted on: 03/Jul/2018 4:37:54 PM
- 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.
