Nearly 250 gms. of sweet apples should be taken daily for a week to obtain relief
A glass of warm water with juice of 1 lime and 1-2 teaspoon of honey is very good for cough
Three pepper corns (sabot kali mirch) sucked with a pinch of black cumin (shah jeera) and a pinch of salt gives relief
Mix 1 teaspoon pepper powder with 4 teaspoon gur (jaggery). Make small balls. Suck 3-4 balls/tablets during the day
Small balls. Suck one ball/tablet 3-4 times a day. Avoid-curd, bananas, ice, rice, fried and cold foods
Mix a pinch of turmeric (haldi) with warm 1 cup milk and have at night
WHOOPING COUGH
Take about 10 gms. of tulsi leaves and even amount of black pepper. Now grind them together to homogeneous powder form. Now adding a little of honey to the combination and make small tablets. These astringent tasting tablets should be taken at least four times a day. Don’t swallow these tablets but suck them slowly?
Radish is a very tasty and useful; vegetable and must form the part of everyone’s diet. Another root, which is also full of medicinal qualities and equally tasty is carrot.
COUGH WITH PHLEGM (BALGAM)
Mix equal amounts of onion juice and honey. Have i teaspoon 3-4 times a day. This is a preventive medicine against cold in winter.
Cought with phlegm in child
Burn the plantain leaves to ashes and ask the child to lick about 5gms. of this ash daily. In about two weeks time this trouble shall be over
If the child is also afflicted with constipation, make him lick the combination of pure honey 6gms and castor-oil 6gms; followed by the combination of cumin seeds, liquorice, munnekka 3, boiled in water, mixed with pure honey
ASTHMA,
Extract about 200gms of carrot juice and add about 100gms of spinach juice with it. Have this combined juice at least thrice a day for getting relief. But one must continue this treatment at least for three months for its total cure. Have carrot and spinach also as salad in addition.
An expectorant and a very effective remedy for asthma is prepared by boiling 6 cloves (laung) in 3 tablelspoons of water. Take 1 teaspoon of this decoction with a little honey, thrice daily
Mix equal amounts of fresh ginger (adrak) juice, honey and pomegranate (annaar) juice. Take 1 tablespoon, 1-2 times a day
Mix 1 teaspoon honey with ½ teaspoon cinnamon powder and have it at night before going to bed
Boil carom seeds in water and inhale the steam.
BREATHING PROBLEM
Mix 1 teaspoon camphor (kapoor) in ½ cup slightly warm coconut oil and apply on the chest
Boil 2 tablespoon fennel seeds (saunf) in 1 cup water till it is reduced to half. Filter it. Take 1 tablelspoon every morning evening for a few days.
PNEUMONIA
Get the pure tulsi oil from a recognised ayurvedic medicine shop. Put this oil on the chest of the afflicted person. Together with this treatment, extract the juice of five tulsi leaves, Mix it with a few grind grains of black peper at 6 hourly interval. This combined treatment will produce enough heat in the body to make the person sweat. With sweat all the effect of cold inside the body shall vanish and the patient will be cured.
CHEST CONGESTION
Add to ½ litre of boiling water, 1 teaspoon turmeric powder. Cool it and take 1 tablespoon of this mixture along with 1 teaspoon honey
CHEST CONGESTION CAUSING BREATHING PROBLEM
Grind ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds (sarson) to a smooth paste. Mix with honey and eat
Mix equal quantities of mustard powder and rice flour. Add some water and boil until it reaches a paste like consistency. Spread on a handkerchief and foment the chest and neck when bearably hot
