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How to cure Cough
#A simple home remedy for cough is to have honey in a hot drink before bed time.
#Turmeric powder boiled in milk and taken internally relieves cough.
#Dry cough can be cured by gradually swallowing a mixture of cuminseed powder mixed with ghee.
#All kinds of cough can be cured by drinking the juice of ashgourd mixed with a little hot water.
#To relieve fits of coughing due to dryness in the throat, suck a few peppercorns.
#Use an infusion of ginger thrice a day.
#Put a grain of salt into your mouth to stop a persistent cough.
#Taking a mixture of lemon juice honey and glycerine is an effective remedy for cough.
#Suck a whole clove without chewing it to soothe a cough.
#Chew a few leaves of basil, a betel leaf and a clove together.
#Boil a handful of tamarind leaves in water with half a teaspoon of asafoetida and a teaspoon of salt. Drink this thrice daily.
#Cut a ripe banana into four pieces. Fry in ghee till brown. Cool and eat twice daily.
#Have an infusion of basil leaves every morning.
#Make an infusion with fenugreek leaves, ginger and honey. Drink it thrice daily.
#Boil an onion, five basil leaves, five peppercorns and two cloves in one and a half cups of water till it is reduced to one cup. Drink it hot thrice a day.
#Three peppercorns with a pinch of salt and black cumin can be taken for relief.
#Mix together four teaspoons of jaggery and a teaspoon of pepper powder. Make into small balls and suck four of these each day.
#Apples bring great relief to a person with dry cough.
#Mix a tablespoon of poppy seeds with a reaspoon of honey and ten tablespoons of coconut milk. Take every night before going ro bed.
#An infusion made with the bark of neem is said to cure
Cramps
1. Apply olive oil on the affected parts.
2. Apply clove oil as poultice on the affected area.
Cuts and Bruises
#Soak a cotton wad in iodine, and dab lightly on the injured area.
#A small piece of alum stops the flow of blood from a cut.
#Apply the juice of basil leaves to stem the flow of blood from a cut.
#Crush a betel leaf with lemon juice, and apply on the cut.
#Application of coffee powder on a profusely bleeding cut stops the blood flow at once.
#Press a little turmeric powder, an antiseptic, on the cut.
#If a glass piece or wooden splinter gets embedded in your skin or cut, apply a layer of fevicol. When it dries and becomes transparent, peel off the layer carefully. The embedded piece will come out whole.
#Dab the milky sap from the leaf of the peepal tree on a cut to cure it soon.
#Put sugar on your bleeding finger or lip to stop the bleeding.
#A cotton swab dipped in brandy acts as an antiseptic.
#All kinds of cuts can be quickly cured by the application of honey.
#Place a sliced onion on the bruise, but not on broken skin.
#Grind peepal leaves with a little jaggery and apply on bruises to reduce pain.
#Saffron can be used as a dressing for bruises.
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