If there was one home remedy that terrified me or my siblings, it had to be kiraitia. This stuff was horridly bitter. We would all know in advance that a dose of this stuff awaited us in the morning as we would see the stuff being boiled in the pot the day before. I would not sleep very well the night before as if I awaited my execution the next day.
I gradually realized that the best way to consume this evil stuff was to direct the liquid directly to the rear of one's mouth and therefore bypass the tongue (apparently also an effective way to consume large amounts of alcohol). In boarding school, when food was often a scare commodity, I even began to enjoy another home remedy favorite - cod liver oil. In my often famished state, sucking on the "seven seas" capsules was something I actually looked forward to, while sucking on some toothpaste often served as a delicious minty dessert. Some guys even went to the extreme of pricking their fingers and sucking their own blood, but I will save this story for a later date :) My favorite home remedy however had to be what my aunt called "massad". It was a concoction of egg yolk, sugar and brandy. I guess it is some kind of egg nog and was supposedly very good for colds, which strangely enough, I suffered a lot of. Marlon > >>From: "santoshhelekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies >>Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:37:05 -0000 >>I would like to extend Paddy's and Sunila's wonderful lists of home >>remedies with the following nostrums from my late grandmother's IRCP >>(Independent Republic of Chimbel Pharmacopeia). Besides the monthly >>pure Shankarchhaap hingachem aajuth (Shankar brand asafoetida warm >>water enema), there was the weekly (every Sunday morning) >>kiraitiachem kodu vokhoth (medicated bitter water drained from boiled >>kiraitem leaves). These were supposed to flush the alimentary canal >>clean at both its unruly ends. But there were times when even these >>well-guarded ends did not justify the meals. For such occasions my >>grandma had the aalem-limbacho ros (ground ginger in lime juice with >>added salt). I now use this concoction as an appetizer, because if >>you ever need an excuse to eat something, believe me a taste of this >>juice in your mouth provides you one. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
