Hi Goans Everywhere
Her are a few more ancestral home remedies:
1. Kokam or Binda -- a small pharmacoepia --
The skin dried and salted -- (bindi che sola) -- good
anti-allergen
The fat from the seeds -- bindel -- very good to soften skin --
if you could get enough cosmetic manufacturers would love to
use it as the base for lipstick
The pulp of the ripe fruit -- made into a syrup -- Amrut
okam -- good to bring down blood pressure
2. Pumpkin seeds (yellow variety) -- dried and pounded with gur and copra
and formed into ladus -- very good to get rid of worms of all
types -- Goans who eat pork roast (from Goan pigs) with the centre portion
a lovely pink colour could get tape worms, which work themselves
into the brain eventually
3. Nashni or Ragi -- specially the dark red variety we get in Goa --
very rich in iron and easily digested -- ideal for
building up strength after an illness -- with gur as TISAN -- or
with salt as AIMIL -- you could add grated fresh coconut,
raisins, etc to make it interesting for kids -- sprouted nashni, dried and
powdered, is even more nutritional
4. Caju feni -- with hot water, lime and sugar -- ideal for colds and
coughs
5. Aloe Vera -- that spiked lily-like plant found in most Goan
ompounds -- good for blind boils, whitlows and the jelly like
stuff inside I am told also for spreading over burns
6. Leaves of the "four o-clock flower " -- good for putting on a blind
boil with castor oil -- brings the boil to a head
drawing out all the pus
7. Fibrous, juicy internal stem of the banana plant -- the juice extracted
from this dissolves stones in kidneys, bladder, etc -- should be
tazken for at least fifteen days -- a small glass each morning
8. Drumsticks, leaves and flowers are supposed to be good for a hundred
and one ailments -- dried drumsticks are very
good for filtering out toxic contents of water
9. Hot water with salt and haldi powder -- even better than only hot salt
water -- for clearing up blocked nasal passages and relieving
a sore throat
10. Warm salt water (water should have been previously boiled and
ooled -- not raw Bombay municipal water) -- poured through one
nostril and allowed toflow out of the other -- clears out all the
accumulated pollution and also clears nasal passages blocked
with cold mucus -- good specifically for people having sinusitis
11. Dishti che panna (I do not know the English equivalent) but could show
the plant to you if my cousins have not destroyed it at our
Nachinola house -- ground with vinegar and FENI and applied to any
sprained or swollen joint -- reduces the swelling almost
instantaneously
12. If you are visiting and forgot to carry a toot-brush -- take a
mango leaf -- pull out the centre stem -- roll eachhalf and rub
you teeth with this roll
13. If you want to sham -- try putting a raw onion in your arm-pit and
sit in the sun for a while -- I have not tried this but at SMHS,
Mount |Abu this was said to be effective -- you get a high fever
14. Marlon was lucky -- he sucked cod liver oil capsules -- I had to
take cod liver oil straight from the bottle -- but it did give me
resistance to colds and coughs at SMHS, Mount Abu -- now doctors
prescribe fish oil for reducing
cholesterol -- I have a permanently high cholesterol lever
(triglycerides of the level of 700 and above)
If I remember any more I shall add them to this list -- but all you Goans
everywhere please think and put down your own memories -- maybe someone
will accumulate all of them -- and we can make a fortune selling these
remedies when the world's scientists reach the acme of the antibiotic and
the germs continue to build resistance to these antibiotics -- we started
with penicillin, then tetrcyclines, then chloramphenicol, them omnicycline,
now nopflox, each more powerful than the last -- eventually we have
reached a stage where we are taking a huge mallet to kill an ant and end up
bashing our own toes
Cheers
Aloysius D'Souza
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