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Recently I suffered from fever and with Gods grace got quick recovery with this simple home made remedy drink. So I would to share my experience and reciepe here. Fever Story I woke-up with with pain or stiffness in my foot. So just to make my foot relax did warm coconut oil massage to my legs and foot for 15 mins and then took bath. Started feeling little coldness in the body since the afternoon and night got my temperature higher along with body pain and coldness. Slept with double bedsheet and woke up early morning with body sweating after which temperature has lowered, but was not completely cured. Next day morning prepared this simple home remedy drink in the morning had this multiple times in smaller quantities instead of normal drinking water. By evening I felt much better. Conitned the same for second day and by the evening of second day I'm completely all right. So going forward, I will surely have this as my very first aid drink for fever if it is manageable with th...

Greetings!!! One morning in this week on my way to exercise routine I saw an uncle who in his sixties doing a brisk walk. Usually, they would be a group of senior citizens who do an early morning walk and stretches together. Today I saw only one among them. But there is no less in his activeness. Then it suddenly made me think how I and others who are probably half or less than half of his age were lazy in doing our daily exercise routine. I'm a person who always wants to do be active physically. Either by completing household work or workout at gym or yoga or walking or jogging. My principle is to do something at least 3 days a week. Being said that I sometimes feel lazy and don't do anything and end-up doing office work which is a desk work during my workout time.    Whenever I skip my workout routine continuously for three days I could feel tiredness physically more. During the similar conversation with some of my friends I learned though they would l...

We are What we Think ( எண்ணம் போல் வாழ்க்கை ) I have grown listening to this " எண்ணம் போல் வாழ்க்கை" phrase a lot many times. This is thus registered in mind and I strongly believe it always and seen it happening. The more we keep thinking about it, that thought will make us work towards it until we reach there. Isn't it so nice? In this thinking process, we should cultivate ourselves to think only positivity. The motive of this article is to emphasis on "Positive Thinking", that is the more important key here. This phrase " We are What we Think " ( எண்ணம் போல் வாழ்க்கை ) is one of my favorite affirmations. This helps in correcting my own thinking process. I strongly understand that we all have our own deep thoughts. When we strongly set sights on for something, we keep thinking nearly it. That makes us produce an effect towards that. We become in view of that sure towards it and it happens. The more we think about it strongly, it so becom...

Smoke gives a kind of pleasure, relief from stress and many more may be... In our everyday lives for sure we knew at least one smoke lover. Though I don't smoke, this is my experience with my smoking friends around. Knowingly and unknowingly smoking habits affects all of us. Here I'm penning my experience of smoke impact. I have migraine problem. I'm trying all my possibilities to avoid getting migraine. I have done life style changes, change in eating habits. Below are few which I completely stopped. No cholocates No ice cream No packed food or snacks No aerated drinks Here are my lifestyle change 1 hour of brisk work out morning at least 4 days in a week Early to bed, early to rise Home cooked food. All credits to my family. Special mention to my husband and mom-in-law, who makes sure of my home cooked food. No to all possible medicines. I always prefer to follow home remedy or natural therapies though they take longer time to give me relief wh...

Here I'm sharing my simple and instant face pack to remove blackheads and keep face skin healthy. Needs only three main ingredients from your kitchen pantry. I have been using this regularly for the past 3 months weekly once. This pack healed my pimple marks and removed blackheads. Ingredients Rice Flour - 1 table spoon Organic Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tea spoon Lemon - medium size Rose Water (Optional) Neem leave paste (Optional) Procedure Make paste using 1 table spoon for organic Rice flour,  1/2 tea spoon of   turmeric powder,   juice of half lemon .  Use sufficient amount of rose water or normal water and make fine paste.  Optional, if wish add paste of fresh neem leaves to the paste Apply it on clean face and let it dry Moisture your face with water, gently rub in circular motion and wash it off using warm water. Do not use hot water. Benefits Following are the benefits I experience over regular usage for 3 month...

My story of discomfort in my eyes  I'm a Software Engineer by profession. As any other software professional, I too spend lot of time sitting in front of computer. Off late I have been complaining about mild pain in the eye, not being able to see bright display especially projector display for not more the 15 minutes. Few months back, this discomfort in my eyes become severe to an extend that I was unable to see computer screen not more than ten minutes. Visited multiple hospitals and every where I heard the same "COMPUTER VISION SYNDROME" and "DRY EYES" . All the doctors I have visited prescribed me tear drops to be used 3 to 4 times a day and no end time mentioned for its usage. This drops are supposed to prevent the eyes getting dry. As soon as the doctors suggested that this drops can be used life long and as and when I have discomfort in my eyes, I have decided that I am not going to use it for life long. Eye Massage  Then I googled lot about ...

This is how I reduced my hair loss In the past one year I have lost lot of hair like never before. I have tried lot of home remedies like castor oil massage, methi pack, curry leave pack etc. Finally tried small onion pack for the past four weeks and started seeing results already. The amount of hair I loss during every day has reduced.. So feeling happy about it. I will continue this to keep the hair healthy. Ingredient Small Onion / Shallot / Sambar Onion - 1 hand full Procedure Peel the onions and grid to a fine paste in mixer without adding any water.  Apply the paste to the scalp and gently massage with finger tips.  Leave it on the scalp for 30 to 45 minutes.  Wash it with mild shampoo or Shikakai. Frequency I applied once a week. This pack can be applied once in three days too. 

Ever since my childhood most of my snacks are made by mom and granny. In Indian cuisine there are plenty of snacks that can be made at home very easily. During my childhood various millets were part of our family regular food. Importantly Solam and Kambu.  So here I'm posting my millet snack ball recipe. Main Ingredients to this snack is Solam and Kambu in Hindi Jowar and Bajra respectively Scientific Name: Sorghum , Tamil: Solam, Hindi: Jowar, Telugu: Jonna, Kannada: Jola, Malayalam: Cholum Scientific Name: Pennisetum glaucum , English: Pearl millet, Tamil: Kambu, Hindi: Bajra, Telugu: sajjalu, Kannada: Sajje, Malayalam: Kambam Ingredients I have used Palm Jaggery as sweetner. You can replace this with regular sugar. Making of Millet Snack Dry roast Solam/Jowar, Kambu/Bajra, Fried gram separately. Solam/Jowar will start popping as pop corn while dry roasting, so do pay attention while roasting it. Do not over roast, just stop roasting while the nice a...

Paneer Rose Paneer rose is most popular Indian variety rose. It has magical mild fragrance. I love eating the petals of it. Now I keep collecting this flower and allow it to dry naturally under shade. Dry grind it using mixer or by stone grinding it. Filter and grind few times to get fine powder. This fine rose powder can be used as regular facial powder, face pack. I use the fine powder as my regular facial powder, the rose granules goes into my bath powder. Rose Powder This rose powder can be used as  Regular facial powder Face pack Bath powder

DIY Home Made Bath Powder In India, Home made bath powders are always encouraged since ancient times. Making our own Home made bath powder is very simple with readily available ingredients from our kitchen pantry. We can alter the proportions of the ingredients as per our preferences. Anything home made is harmless as we know what we are preparing. In this mix, neem leaf powder and turmeric powder are best remedy for all type of skin allergies. So adding them to our regular bath powder gives us best protection from any skin infection. Turmeric powder adds glow to our skin. Rose powder add beautiful fragrance. This bath powder makes our skin feel fresh, glow and keeps body odour away. Bath Powder Ingredients Making of Bath Powder Mentioned ingredients and its proportion can be alter to our preference. Neem leaf powder and Paneer rose powder are optional. Mix all the mentioned ingredients in a clean dry bowl and store it in a container. Best to prepare for once in a mont...

Here is how Castor Oil playing important role in regular routine. Though I knew Castor Oil and seen its several usages from childhood, but some how I forgot to use it in my kitchen in the beginning. For sure our lifestyle changes and health often reminds you to get back to your roots. Such instances made me to kick start it again. Right now following are my usages of Castor oil 1. As Cooking Ingredient While making plain toor dal (uppu parrupu recipe in tamil) along with jeera, red chilli, pepper, turmeric powder, I will just add 1 table spoon of castor oil in it. This addition will enhance the taste and also avoid the over flow of dal when it is not pressure cooked i.e when cooked in open vessel or pot. Use it as thickening agent in all pulli kulambu recipes i.e tamarind based vegetarian curries. I do not prefer adding coconut in my curries just to make it thick, so I add 1 table spoon of castor oil to the recipe 5 mins before getting it off from the stove. 2. As M...

Castor Oil for Migraine This is based on my and my mom's personal experience. Both of us suffer from Migraine every now and then. Recently while mom had severe headache on a different aspect I have put a drop of castor oil to her both the eyes. Next day morning she was so relieved from her usual headache pain. Castor oil did its best of reducing the pain 90%, what else a migraine sufferer would ask for. Rest 10% is completely bearable pain. None of us knew before that castor oil can be a remedy of migraine.  Then immediately I have decided that I will certainly follow this. In the past 4 times I have used Castor oil as an eye drops as preventive medicine. I will feel little uncomfortableness like eye tiredness, sensitive to sound smell etc. By knowing these symptoms I have used Castor oil as an eye drops before going to sleep and certainly that helped me a lot.  I should mention that castor oil eye drops is not very pleasant to eyes. It will give you a slight burni...

Recently, in office I almost follow my to-do list and plan for the day. Though i'm not able to fully complete my plan, it helps me a lot. I at least know which tasks are eating up my time etc. I have tried applications like one note, excel and todoist few other applications ON and OFF. But some how I'm not successful in planning and executing via these apps.. and ofcourse this is an issue with me :P  Then finally I started to follow the pen and paper model and I feel the satisfaction in this practice. Now I have decided that best suited for me is Pen and Paper :) Next my progressive step is planning on the personal front for a week and month. Most of my items in the post-it are small tasks or jobs that we do as routine and not necessary to list them down. I feel just that writing it down makes the job much more easier, especially when it comes to the question of what to cook now ????? OMG, many a times I feel this question as a tough one. So to avoid this question and ...

Suffering from Migraine? Simple breathing practice comes as effective remedy I have been suffering from migraine i.e one sided headache with high sensitivity to sound, light, smell along with nausea. This suffering is from the past 6 years though. It would last for 2 to 3 days for me. I have tried medications, stopped eating ice creams, chocolates, soft drinks, carbonated drinks and many other packed items hoping to avoid getting headache. But none helped me.  Thought provoking Yoga experience Two years before once I was doing my yoga practice with migraine. Fortunately that session had lot of breathing practices. Especially after long alternate nostril breathing, I felt much better and for 20 mins or so I was free from the intensive pain of migraine. Though it is small duration when compared with 2 to 3 continuos days of suffering. This short relief made me to realize there is some connection with breathing and  migraine relief. From then onwards every time I get mi...

This drink or kashayam is wonderfull home remedy for cold, running nose, cough and fever from our kitchen shelves Suffering from cold or running nose or cough or fever because of cold, this kashayam will do wonder by drinking 3 or 4 times a day. This kashayam does wonders for both adults and kids too. This always works for my family and stops us from running to hospital. Ingredients  Turmeric powder - 2 tea spoon or fresh turmeric - 2inch Cloves - 12 nos Cinnamon - 2inch Pepper - 10 nos Fresh ginger - 2inch or dry ginger - 2inch Jeera - 1 tea spoon (Optional) Beetal leaf - 2 nos Fresh Tulsi leaves - 15 nos (handful) karpooravali leaf (Optional) - 1 Note: If you are preparing this kashayam for kids or infants you can add some brown sugar or jaggery to subside spiciness of this drink. Procedure Add all the above mentioned ingredients in 1 liter water and bring it to boiling point. Get it to low flame after water started boiling. Keep it on low flame a...

Nutmeg or Jathikkai - Remedy for pimples Recent days I have got and getting lot of pimples on my face which is due to my frequent travels. So my cousin suggested me to use Jathikkai as we call in tamil,  which is commonly known as Nutmeg. It is seriously started doing magic on my face. So I couldn't with hold this post about benefits of Jathikkai | nutmeg, until I get to see my complete result. Trust me almost every second person I know started asking me what happened to your face?? Uphhh I was tired of answering for the question. So I started using this Jathikkai or nutmeg paste to my face and after two week of continuous apply, I'm seeing lot of improvement in my face. Procedure I follow: I make a fine paste of Jathikkai or nutmeg using water. We can also use good quality of rose water if you can kindly make rose water of your own.  Apply this fine paste on to your face as face pack and allow it to dry and then wash it off with water . Note : 1. Do not use hot wa...

Amazing Celery Juice Fresh celery juice is one of the most powerful juice when taken every morning in empty stomach.  Health Benefits of Celery Its significant anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties is highly effective for auto immune disorder.  Low cholesterol properties help in weight loss.  It is a good natural source of Sodium Celery Juice Ingredients Fresh Celery - 1cup Cucumber - 1  Lemon - 1  Procedure Wash the fresh celery in running water and cut them into medium sizes. Include celery leaves and stalk. Wash and peal the outer skin of cucumber and cut into pieces. Put them together in blender add a 1 glass of water and blend it smoothly. Add lemon juice in to the blend. Adding lemon is optional. I prefer adding it to overcome the strong taste of celery. Filter and enjoy the fresh drink

Indian gooseberries have two varieties, once is small called nellikai or chinna nellikai and the other is big. This big one is called Amla in Hindi and Periya nellikai in Tamil. Both nellikai are rich in vitamin C which is very essential in building our immune system and its health benefits are amazing. As I'm a pickle freek I love to make my own pickle. This is the first attempt I tried Amla or Periya Nellikai pickle and it turned yummy. This is one of easiest pickle recipe. Time consumed for me is just under 30 minutes. Here is the step by step procedure. Ingredients Amala 15 Nos Gingelly oil 1 cup Roasted fenugreek powder  2 tbsp Chilly Powder 2 tbsp Salt as required Mustard 1 tbsp  Fresh Curry Leaves  1 hand full Garlic cloves - 10 Nos Asafoetida - 1/2 tea spoon Procedure Hand pick good quality and fresh amlas or periya nellikai. Wash them nicely in running water and give them a pat dry. Steam cook the amlas / periya nellikai for 10 m...

This Kothamalli Coffee or Sukku Coffee or Sukku Malli Coffee is my all time favorite. My regular routine day starts with this. I have this powder ready. Generally I make it once a month and store it. It gives you very good relief when you cold, flu, head ache. Coriander is called Kothamalli and Dry ginger is called Sukku in tamil. So this coffee we call it as Kothamalli coffee or Sukku malli coffee.  All the ingredients in this has their own medicinal benefits. Expecialy Plam Jaggery is way better than our white sugar on the health benefits side.   Coffee Powder Preparation Ingredients 100g coriander seeds Dry ginger -  2 inch. Black pepper - 1 tbs Preparation  In a dry pan on a low flame, dry roast coriander seeds and pepper until the aroma start coming nicely and the seeds will slowly turn into brown color.  Keep stirring the seeds, other wise one side will get burnt easily and the aroma won't be so great. Let it cool. In a mixer grind ...

Tomato Pickle Tomato dishes is my all time favorite. My mom makes this amazing tomato pickle. This is her recipe. Last time when I'm in native we harvested lots of native variety tomato from our farm. I can't express the amazing taste of it straight from farm.  After seeing lot of fresh tomatoes, I immediately made plans to make pickle by self with mom overseeing it. It goes well with hot rice, idly, dosa, upma, chappati, curd rice etc. Our family eat this thokku with almost everything in all my meals   Ingredients Tomato - 3kg Gingly oil - 0.5 ltr Fresh curry leaves - one handful  Tamarind - 1 lemon size Fenugreek - 3 table spoon Chilli powder - as per taste. I used 6 table spoon. Turmeric powder - 1tea spoon Salt as per taste Mustard - 3 table spoon Garlic - 3 whole pods (Optional) Ginger - small finger length (Optional)   Preparation Wash tomatoes in running water and let it dry completely. I spread tomatoes on a cott...