Power Ginger and Other Commonly Found Household Cures

It’s that time of the year, which sporadically comes all throughout the 12 months, when the change in weather is erratic.  Sweltering hot at mid morning till noon, cool and cloudy and then cold and rainy at night.  Result is flu like symptoms of runny nose, sore throat, headache, muscle pains and asthma.

I asked my doctor friend for a prescription and he gave me Alnix Plus, paracetamol and an antiviral tablet.

Worried for the state of my liver and negligence to take my meds on time, I resorted to ginger.

I washed off a candy-sized chunk of ginger, peeled it and then chewed on it for 5 minutes or so.  I discarded the ginger after ingesting most of its juice.  I repeated this process thrice during the day and twice the next day, and voila!  The flu like symptoms were gone.

For insomnia, I stock up on chamomile tea, which has zero caffeine, and successfully doze off for a good night’s sleep. (Might I add that meditation is also effective for this.  Stin Hansen has a good guided meditation to calm obsessive thinking, which is one of the causes of insomnia).  Worse comes to worse, I take StressTabs along with these.

For dry hands due to contact with detergents and other household cleaning solutions, I use olive oil to moisturize.  In fact, I have a bottle of olive oil in my cosmetics cabinet for that purpose alone.  After applying olive oil, I slather my hands and feet with Human Natures’ Salve (Human Nature products are said to be 100% all natural).  Both work beautifully together for soft hands and feet.

To ward off mosquitoes, I always have a bottle of organic insect repellant, citronella oil.