home remedies

1. Pour 1 cup boiling water over ½ teaspoon each of ginger (adrak) powder, clove (laung) powder and cinnamon (dalchini) powder. Filter. Sweeten with 1 teaspoon honey and drink.

1. Apply clove oil on the affected parts.
2. Apply clove oil as poultice on the affected areas

1. Warm the papaya leaf over the fire and apply on affected parts.
2. Heat ginger (adrak) paste with turmeric (haldi) paste (1:1) and apply.
3. Soak ½ teaspoon liquorice (mulathi) root powder in 1 cup water and leave overnight. Mix into the infusion 1 cup rice gruel (cooked broken rice) and take every morning.

1. Crush a fistful of carom seeds (ajwain) and tie up in a cotton napkin and place it near the pillow.
2. Put 1 teaspoon cardamom (chhoti illaichi) seeds on burning coal and inhale the smoke.

1. Apply fresh lime juice on the head. Massage well before showering off.
2. Steep 1 tablespoon mint (pudina) leaves in 1 cup water for 30 minutes. Drink the infusion, do not boil.

1. Drop lemon juice in nostrils.
2. Use juice of fresh coriander leaves (dhania) as nasal drops.
3. Dip a cotton bud in rose water and dab it on to the inside of your nostrils to stop the bleeding.

1. Lemon juice dropped into nostrils provides excellent relief.
2. Juice of fresh coriander leaves (dhania) can be used as nasal drops.

1. Make into a very fine powder equal quantities of the following: cardamom (chhoti illaichi) seeds, cinnamon (dalchini), black pepper (kali mirch) and cumin (jeera). Sniff this powder frequently to induce sneezing.

1. Make into a very fine powder equal quantities of the following: cardamom (chhoti illaichi) seeds, cinnamon (dalchini), black pepper (kali mirch) and cumin (jeera). Sniff this powder frequently to induce sneezing.

1. Rub a nutmeg (jaiphal) on a smooth grinding stone along with some cow's milk. Apply this paste on forehead and nose.