Mix a gram of dalchini/cinnamon powder with a teaspoon of honey to cure cold. Prepare a cup of tea to which you should add ginger, clove, bay leaf and black pepper.. This should be consumed twice a day. Reduce the intake as the cold disappears.

GINGER FOR COLDS.

 Ginger tea is very good to cure cold. Preparation of tea: cut ginger into small pieces and boil it with water, boil it a few times and then add sugar to sweeten and milk to taste, and drink it hot.

DRY COUGHS.

 Add a gram of turmeric (haldi) powder to a teaspoon of honey for curing dry cough. Also chew a cardamom for a long time.

BLOCKED NOSE.

 For blocked nose or to relieve congestion, take a table spoon of crushed carom seeds (ajwain) and tie it in a cloth and inhale it.

SORE THROAT.

 Add a tea spoon of cumin seeds (jeera) and a few small pieces of dry ginger to a glass of boiling water. Simmer it for a few minutes, and then let it cool. Drink it twice daily. This will cure cold as well as sore throat.

AJWAIN/AJMO FOR ASTHMA.

 Boil ajwain in water and inhale the steam.

CURE FOR BACKACHE..

 Rub ginger paste on the backache to get relief.

GARLIC FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.

  Have 1-2 pod garlic (lasan) first thing in the morning with water

HONEY AND GINGER FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.

 Mix 1 table spoon and 1 table spoon ginger (adrak) juice, 1 table spoon of crushed cumin seeds (jeera), and have it twice daily.

MIGRAINE. .

 For the cure of migraine or acute cold in the head; boil a tablespoon of pepper powder, and a pinch of turmeric in a cup of milk, and have it daily for a few couple of days.

BLOOD SUGAR..

 A tablespoon of amla juice mixed with a cup of fresh bitter gourd (karela) juice and taken daily for 2 months reduces blood sugar.

TURMERIC/ ARAD CURE FOR INJURIES

 For any cut or wound, apply turmeric powder to the injured portion to stop the bleeding. It also works as an antiseptic. You can tie a bandage after applying haldi/turmeric.

CRAMPS

 You must do a self-massage using mustard oil every morning. Just take a little oil between your palms and rub it all over your body. Then take a shower. This is especially beneficial during winter. You could also mix a little mustard powder with water to make a paste and apply this on your palms and soles of your feet.

HEADACHES.

 If you have a regular migraine problem, include five almonds along with hot milk in your daily diet. You could also have a gram of black pepper along with honey or milk, twice or thrice a day. Make an almond paste by rubbing wet almonds against a stone.This can be applied to forehead.

Eat an apple with a little salt on an empty stomach everyday and see its wonderful effects. OR When headache is caused by cold winds, cinnamon works best in curing headache. Make a paste of cinnamon by mixing in water and apply it all over your forehead.

TURMERIC FOR ARTHRITIS.

 Turmeric can be used in treating arthritis due to its anti-inflammatory property. Turmeric can be taken as a drink other than adding to dishes to help prevent all problems. Use one teaspoon of turmeric powder per cup of warm milk every day. It is also used as a paste for local action.

HICCUPS

 Take a warm slice of lemon and sprinkle salt, sugar and black pepper on it.. The lemon should be eaten until the hiccups stop.

INFLAMMATION! What inflammation? Am I a prey? Is it a visitor passing through town, in this case my body? Or by the looks of it, has it already sneaked in to make me its permanent address? A nasty boil ensnarled in puss; a-common-place-incensed   swell   or an incendiary infection chafing the body — sure these are the microbes inflammation must conquer, if left unchecked, embody can turn on itself and self-destruct.

Sit up, take note and agonize about this little-known heating our insides — that labyrinth of cells, organs, membranes, tissues, pipes, passages, nerves, blood vessels — one day or another, on our mortal march. But to the uninitiated, aren’t we all? Inflammation is the grim reaper of all disease, sucking the last ounce out of life and sending us six feet under.

Death. Yes, that’s its other name.

Inflaming the medical agita at last and setting the Time Magazine cover of February on fire finally, inflammation is now officially acknowledged as the grand-daddy of all death-fostering diseases, setting off an amber alert in America where the aged never say die to life.

Call it coincidence or a freaky Friday in December last. Flattering the birthday boy for passing off as a springy 60-year-old on his 78th birthday, I spent the rest of my party hours at his home in Defence, Karachi, hearing from him the A-Z of inflammation (you asked for it! I told myself, making a mental note never to praise unmeasured in future).

And the magic potion that has kept S.K. Rahim young and healthy is alsi ka tail, extracted from flaxseeds also known as linseed oil — the grand-mummy of all cures, claims Rahim.

But linseed is the oil I saw my siblings rub on cricket bats or my art teacher dab on brushes to clean or the painter mix with varnish to polish wood (what’s S.K. talking about?).

Politeness, more than academic interest drove me to this rather bizarre monologue. Rahim, aka Faiyzi, and me happen to be members of the same family circle and having sung ‘happy birthday’ and heartily cheered as he cut his cake, inflammation and alsi along with a tome of well thumbed newspaper clippings three decades old, while heavy to digest, still held a curious fascination over me as the evening wore off.

“It’s heavy-footed,” Faiyzi warned, after I agreed to walk through the dusty road of research and discovery … his labour of love. It was his mother, actually, who would put a poultice of grounded linseed each time he hurt himself playing. That was in the 1930s. Viola!Gopne would be the bump, the swelling, sending the lad on his way to school the next day.

When winter infected him with cold and fever, ‘doctor mom’, with her magic chest of linseed, shoved a piping-hot of the same concoction down the protesting son’s inflamed windpipe to drive away the demons. Soon, the boy’s blocked ENT (ear, nose and throat passages) were as good as new.

“As I passed beyond the hold of my aging mother, these anti-inflammation heating treatments both outside and inside my body stopped in due course. I resorted to normal medicinal treatments and my mother stopped manhandling me, and I forgot all about lin-seed.”

Until one day and half-a-century in between, Faiyzi remembered his ‘doctor mom’ and her magic potion when attacked by vicious rheumatoid arthritis at age 60. The wicked inflammation, while on its savage rout, plagued him with piles, winding up in his prostate glands. Surgery, shouted the doctors, unless he wanted cancer hosted. Angina was the next station, making his heart squirm in pain.

At this milestone of malfeasant diseases parading around Faiyzi, I turn weary, his litany of medical ailments such as dactyltis, proctitis, pro-statitis, angina pectoris begin to tantalize my patience. Still, I can’t help but think of his mother’s ancestors in India, akin to the Red Indians, who, too, must have danced around in joy among the pale blue flowers of flax, pressing their seeds to extract linseed oil that in Urdu we call alsi.

“For outside bumps, she used linseed poultice and for internal inflammation, she forced us to take linseed powder, insisting vociferously that this is what her ancestors did and with good reasons, too!”

Faiyzi’s search for the pure flax extract sent his son Shahid scouting all over Karachi. Ultimately, he did discover an oil merchant in Saddar honest enough to guarantee pure alsi ka tail. Beyond that, the vendor’s curiosity in its medicinal worth was never tickled. Within three months of a two-spoonful-twice-a-day intake on an empty-Stomach, wonders were seized, chasing his arthritis, piles, prostrate and angina away.

“Now, in 2003, it has been seven to eight years since I have been taking a preventive

” dose: one tablespoon daily on an empty stomach, thinking that whatever caused my inflammations might still be lurking and can return any time. But. I have been disease-free.”

Two years short of 80, Faiyzi is fighting fit. In 30 minutes, he covers two miles daily, climbs several storeys without panting and has since been recommending alsi to friends and family, all of whom have hailed him their healer.

Will flaxseed oil be the miracle breakthrough of our age that so far is bereft of a cure for inflammation? With his heuristic approach and impressive body of empirical evidence, Faiyzi feels he has discovered the yellow gold, but he lacks scientific company. Nowhere, not even in the Time Magazine article is flaxseed oil mentioned remotely.

Time admits: “Instead of different treatments for, say heart diseases, Alzheimer’s and colon cancer, there might be a single, inflammation-reducing remedy that would prevent all three.” An anti-inflammatory drug to treat asthma might soon be on the shelves in the US. So far, Aspirin is still touted as the greatest anti-inflammatory source, swallowed faithfully by millions of Americans daily to fend off heart attack.

Billions of dollars are being marshalled into research and development by pharmaceutical companies and while cardiologists, rheumatologists, oncologists, allergists and neurologists are in consonance that inflammation is the root cause of diabetes, heart attacks rumours, gum diseases, multiple sclerosis, asthma, Alzheimer’s, they “can’t recommend specific treatment yet.”

Because these medical men still don’t get it as to how inflammation is caused.

Have we not been told ad nauseum that saturated fats and oils in our food get deposited in our blood to form fat cells that spew out inflammatory toxins? And don’t we all know by now that chemical preservatives in sugar, soft drinks, tinned food and certain snacks contain petrochemical components that are injurious to our health?

Faiyzi also vows that the overuse “in fact misuse of petro-chemical based modern medicines and drugs, which are all toxic, howsoever minimized, damage the body”.

Disappointingly, Time ends its fiery article with a whimper: to “dampen inflammatory fires” its pedestrian advice is: to lose weight (to produce fewer cytokines); exercise 30 minutes daily; floss your teeth and eat fruits, vegetables and fish.

This homily is as old as the hills! Until the US comes up with an anti-inflammatory drug, the killer diseases courtesy inflammation would have sentenced millions to die, marching the majority to their graves. But wait, what have we here? Mayo Clinic, the mother of all clinics, has found flaxseed oil to help pre-vent breast cancer, prostate cancer and endometrial can-cer, declaring that its soluble fibre helps “lower cholesterol and regulate blood sugar”, and insoluble fibre, “may help protect against colon cancer.”

And the Omega-3 fatty acids help “lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke.” Mayo Clinic even plays the chef to add a tasty twist to flaxseeds: “The whole seeds have a nutty flavour. Sprinkle them on salads, soups, yogurt or cereal or drizzle a small amount into soups or casseroles at the table.”

Alsi ka tail, anyone? Maybe that’s what the doctor ordered!

By Anjum Niaz

Dilute one part honey with two parts of warm water. Add one teaspoons of taj powder and apply the paste to the part that is paining, massaging slowly. Within minutes them pain will go away and the patient will feel relieved.

Put two spoons of honey and one teaspoon taj powder in hot water. Arthritis patients should drink this every morning and evening for the pain in the joints to go away.

In the university of Copenhagen about 200 arthritis patients were given one spoon honey with four spoons taj powder, made into syrup, before breakfast. Within a week most of the patients’ pain was gone, and within a month the people who could not walk because of the pain were walking without pain.

HAIR LOSS:

This is for people whose hair is falling or who have baldness.

Heat olive oil, add one spoon each of honey and taj powder and mix. Massage this mixture on

the head for about five minutes, and then wash it off. This will prevent loss of hair.

BLADDER INFECTIONS:

Put in a glass of warm water two spoons of taj powder and one spoon of honey and drink. This will kill the infectious germs in the bladder. If the infection is acute, instead of water drink honey and taj powder wit sanbury juice. This will clear even the acute infection.

TOOTH ACHE:

Take five parts honey and two parts taj powder mixture. Apply this mixture to the paining tooth and the patient will’ fee relived. Apply this procedure till the pain goes away.

CHOLESTROL:

Put two spoons honey and three spoons taj powder in 16 ozs of tea water. Drink within two hours

and the cholesterol level in the blood will reduce by 10%

If you take this three times a day, you can imagine the amount of cholesterol that can be

controlled.

Drinking this every day can control your cholesterol level and reduce fat.

Include honey and taj powder in your food daily and ulcer will go away.

GAS:

If you take honey with a small amount of taj powder, even the acute gas will go away.

BAD BREATH:

Put one teaspoon of taj powder and honey in a glass of hot water and rinse your mouth for bad breath to stay away for the whole day.

HEARING LOSS:

Take equal amounts of honey and taj powder every morning and evening. Taking ‘sek’ of this will stop deafness and make you hear again.

It is said that due to old age your eardrums become thick and clogged, by taking this ‘sek’ it becomes loose and unclogged and the person can hear clearly.

HEART:

If you spread the paste of honey and taj powder on bread/roti for breakfast <instead of jam> the fat in the arteries will melt away and this stops the person from having a heart attack. Even of the person has already had one; it shall prevent the second.

On top of this, it will empower your heartbeat and you will get relief in breathing difficulties. As you age, your blood becomes thick. By taking honey and taj powder, it stops your blood from becoming thicker and clogged.

IMMUNE SYSTEM:

By regular intake of honey and taj powder, doctors have researched that your immune power is trebled. It protects from bacterial and viral diseases. Because of minerals and vitamins in the honey, it empowers white corpuscies.

COLDS:

If you have a common cold, warm one spoon of honey and ½ spoon of taj powder. Take this mixture three times a day to stop cough and cold and also to relive dry throats.

UPSET STOMACH:

For years honey has been known to relive indigestion and stomach pain.

INDIGESTION:

Sprinkle taj powder on two spoons of honey and have it before meals. This will stop heartburn because of acidity. It helps digest heavy meals.

INFLUENZA:

Honey kills influenza germs and stops flu in person of any age.

LONGEVITY:

Those who drink tea with honey and taj powder don’t get old. This is the theory of doctors of China and Japan.

Four spoons of honey and one spoon of taj powder in three cups of water made into tea, and

drunk three to four times a day < ¼ cup a time > makes your skin look younger.

Even if you age, your skin does not get loose and you age slowly. Your life is prolonged, and a

man of hundred years can do the amount of work he was doing in his youth.

SKIN INFECTIONS:

For skin infections such as itching and gumda (gujrati), apply equal parts of honey and taj powder

paste to the infected part, and within a few days the infection will be gone.

PIMPLES:

Make a paste of three full spoons of honey and one spoon of taj powder and massage it on the pimples every night before sleeping. In the morning wash it off with either lentils (channa) powder or warm water. By doing this for two weeks, even the acute pimples will go away.

WEIGHT LOSS:

Take one cup boiled water with honey and taj powder everyday ½ hour before breakfast and at night before sleeping. This will remove fat from your body for ever, and drinking this everyday, even if you eat fatty foods it will stop fat from increasing in your body.

CANCER:

Researches in Japan and Australia have shown that taking of honey and taj powder has checked advance cases of cancer of stomach and bones. By taking mixture of one spoon of honey and taj powder three times a day advancement of cancer was stopped three times than the use of usual medication.

FATIGUE:

By taking honey and taj powder regularly, you don’t get tired but feel energetic. In a glass of water (8 ozs of water equals one glass) put ½ spoon of honey and sprinkle taj powder on it. Drink this mixture after brushing your teeth, two hours later and at three in the afternoon. This shall make you feel rejuvenated and not fatigued.

HEADACHES: fish Protein,

Eat lots of fish as fish oil helps to prevent headaches, So does ginger which reduces inflammation and pain.

HAY FEVER: Yogurt,

Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season

STROKES: Tea,

Prevents buildup of fatty deposit on artery walls with regular doses of tea.

INSOMNIA: HONEY,

Use honey as a tranquilizer and as a sedative.

ASTHMA: Onions (red),

Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes.

ARTHRITIS: FISH,

Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis.

UPSET STOMACH: Bananas, Ginger,

Bananas will settle an upset stomach. Ginger cures morning sickness and nausea.

BLADDER INFECTIONS: CRANBERRY JUICE,

High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria.

BONES PROBLEMS: PINEAPPLE

Bones fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple

PMS: CORNFLAKES

Women can ward off the effects of PMS with cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.

MEMORY PROBLEMS: Oysters

Oysters help increase your mental functioning by supplying much needed zinc.

COUGH: RED PEPPER

A substance similar to that found in cough syrup is found in hot red pepper.

BREAST CANCER: WHEAT, BRAN, CABBAGE

Wheat bran and cabbage help maintain estrogen at healthy levels.

LUNG CANCER: Orange, Green Vegetables

A good antidote is beta-carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in orange and green vegetables.

ULCERS: Cabbage

Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both type of ulcers

DIARREA: Apples

Crate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to this condition.

CLOGGED ARTERIES: AVOCADOS

Mono-unsaturated fat in avocados lower cholesterol

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE: Olive Oil, Celery

Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure. Celery contains a chemical that lowers blood pressure too.

BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE: Broccoli, Peanuts

The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar.

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