Hair care

Historical remedies

The following claims come from the historical source; they are not verified treatment recommendations.

• Eczema is cured by tying boiled neem leaves on eczema and drinking half a cup of neem juice in the morning and evening. [11]
• Rubbing the juice of tulsi leaves relieves itching. [12]
• Grinding carrot into any flour and applying it to blisters and inflamed wounds heals the wounds. [14]
• By repeatedly washing the stinging part of the scorpion with salt water and putting a drop of slightly salted water in both the eyes, the venom of the scorpion is removed. [16]
• Take asafoetida and camphor in equal parts and make a pill (camphor-kingvati pill which is also available at the medicine man there) Take one to two pills and drink it in ginger juice, Sannipat (lovely) fever is cured and the pain becomes conscious. [19]
• Drinking two tola (original units) of honey in cold water in the morning cures inflammation, irritation, itching. [22]
• Mixing one to two spoonfuls of castor oil in sugar milk and drinking it twice a day cures many types of stomach pains. [26]
• "Drinking tea with tulsi leaves cures common cold, colds and body aches. [34]
• If there is gas, phlegm dope, back pain or stiffness of the dock, boil chilies in some water, dip a cloth in it and put a warm cloth on the painful part to relax. [48]
• Eating a handful of freshly roasted chickpeas with turmeric and salt in the morning and at night before going to bed (without drinking water above) cures chronic common cold and cough. [50]
• Roasted ajwain with salt and turmeric as a mouthwash after meals cures cough and common cold. [50]
• Rubbing onion juice on the head regrows hair lost in illness. [51]
• Amla, black sesame, bhangro and brahmi are equally crushed and made into a powder and applied every morning and evening to turn white hair black. [51]
• Washing the head with both sugar and lemon juice cures lice and dandruff. [51]
• Chickpeas soaked in buttermilk, massaged on the head when the chickpeas are completely dry and washed after two hours, cures lice and dandruff. [51]
• Applying sesame flower, gokhru and rock salt in coprale or honey cures baldness. [51]
• Boiling henna leaves in pasher coprael, rubbing that oil daily on the head will increase the hair growth and blacken it. [51]
• Dilute neem leaves in water and wash head with water to cure scalp. [51]
• When hair is falling, applying white mud-liquid mixed with lemon juice on it stops hair fall. [51]
• Eating cucumber with peel gives shine to hair. [51]
• Boiling amla powder in hot water and washing the hair with this water makes the hair beautiful and shiny. [51]
• Diluting some radish juice and applying it on the face makes the face smooth and shiny. [52]
• Squeezing a lemon in a bucket of warm or cold water makes the skin smooth and glowing. [52]
• Grating the cucumber and applying its juice makes the skin smooth as well as dry. [52]
• Drinking Babbe tola (original units) honey in cold water every morning cures skin diseases like burns, itching, blisters. [53]
• Rubbing potato peel on the body makes the skin smooth. [53]
• Harsana is relieved by eating roti with castor oil. [62]