Prickly heat – Apply some curd all over the body while taking bath. This would drive the prickly heat complaint away.
Summer popsicles – When there are summer popsicles spread across the body skin especially during summer, they will be severely painful. Mix some small quantity of lime with a few drops of honey or jaggery, this would turn out to be quite a hot paste. Apply this paste on the affected popsicle area and cover it with betel leaf.
Body fatigue or tiredness – Mix some cow’s butter with some shredded cabbage leaves and take, This would refresh and remove the body fatigue.
Painful urination – Painful urination complaints occur especially during summer season, more so for women. This is due to insufficient intake of the required quantity of water. So, it is better always to take sufficient large quantity of drinking water every day. Take a handful of barley rice and boil in 8 glasses of water. Cool it and then drink.
For increased mother’s breast milk – Make a gruel with rice and some fenugreeks insufficient water and take this.
Delivering a child with fairer complexion – The pregnant women must regularly take tender coconut and watermelon. The child would be born with fair complexion and also would be more beautiful.
Irritating blisters on the skin – grind some pieces of asafoetida and apply on the areas affected by blister (due to the hot stuff falling in that zone), The irritation will be gone. Further, there would be no swelling as well.
Bile-related complaints – Mix some carrot juice with honey and take, This would especially arrest the frequent vomiting experienced by pregnant women. It will strengthen the body. Bile-related complaints will get cured.
Phlegm blocks – burn some onion directly on the fire and then take it. The phlegm blocks and the coughing habit will be gone.
Ulcer on the forehead – Due to the habit of keeping the ‘bindhi’ mark on the forehead, that particular area would get softened and would tend to be ulcerous. Take a strip of basil or Bengal quince (‘vilvamaram’ in Tamil) (botanical name Aegle Marmelos) Grind it along with same sandalwood pieces and make a paste. Apply to the affected area on the forehead. The ulcer will get cured.