here are some most commonly ones
Cold
Prevention of Cold
Drink plenty of fluids.
Don't cover your sneezes and coughs with your hands.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. If you blow your nose, wash your hands before touching your mouth or eyes. If you cough, wash your hands before touching your eyes or nose.
Avoid close, prolonged contact with anyone who has a cold.
Using paper cups can be helpful to avoid spreading of germs. Having a dispenser of small cups in key areas (e.g., kitchen, bathroom) can help children to make it a habit.
Home Remedies for Cold
Lemon is the most important among the many home remedies for common cold. It is beneficial in all types of cold with fever.
Ginger is another excellent remedy for colds and coughs.
A teaspoon of the root paste, mixed with an equal quantity of honey or tulsi leaf juice, given once every night for a month, acts as an excellent medicine for colds.
Use camphor water as a chest and throat rub. Avoid getting it near the eyes.
Take a tbsp of carom seeds (ajwain), crush and tie them properly in a muslin cloth. Inhale in case of nose blockage.
Drink plenty of fluids like water, fruit juices, etc.
Take 3-4 tsp onion juice and 3-4 tsp honey and mix well before consuming.
Appetite loss
Prevention of Appetite loss
Avoid cooking strong smelling foods (such as fish or cauliflower).
Eat several small meals daily, instead of large ones.
Feeding through artificial means (such as a tube or IV).
Exercising regularly can increase your appetite.
Home Remedies for Appetite loss
Oranges are an extremely useful remedy for anorexia.
Lime is also a valuable remedy for restoring a lost appetite. A preparation made from this fruit and ginger has been found very effective in overcoming this condition.
Sour grapes are another effective remedy for anorexia.
Garlic possesses a special property to stimulate the digestive tone of the system and improve appetite. A soup prepared from this vegetable can be of immense help to a patient suffering from anorexia.
The use of ginger is valuable in the loss of appetite. About five grams of this vegetable should be ground and licked with a little salt once a day for the treatment of this condition.
The application of an ice-bag over the stomach for half an hour before meals, and a cool hip bath once or twice daily, will go a long way in curing anorexia.
Backache
Prevention of Backache
Walking, cycling in an upright posture and simple swimming can enhance health of your back.
Dress in comfortable clothes and avoid high heels.
One should also avoid looking down for long periods of time while seated at a desk.
Avoid being obese and maintain correct weight for your height.
Home Remedies for Backache
The most important home remedy for backache is the use of garlic. Two or three cloves should be taken every morning to get results. An oil prepared from garlic and rubbed on the back will give great relief.
Lemon is another useful remedy for backache.
Raw potato is an ancient home remedy for backache, characterised by incapacitating pain in the lumbar region, especially in the lower part of the back.
Fish oil taken daily, is the least expensive and most effective manner in which to eliminate backache, joint pain, pains in the wrists.
A mixture of powdered sonth, sweet soda and salt if consumed with hot milk or water can alleviate your backache problems.
While sleeping, sleep on a firm mattress. Avoid sleeping face down.
Heat may be applied with hot water bottle or infrared lamp for temporary relief in the area.
Drink some hot milk or water with powdered sonth, meetha soda, and namak.
dark circles
Prevention of Dark Circles
Using a daily moisturizer with sunscreen.
Maintaining a healthy and balanced diet with plenty of iron and vitamin K, and getting enough sleep.
Avoid caffeine late in the day.
Try mind- body techniques.
Home Remedies for Dark Circles
Dark Circles can be removed by applying peeled and grated potato overnight at least three times a week.
Dark circles can be removed by doing pranayam daily for at least five minutes.
Dip cotton balls in rose water and keep for 5-10 minutes.
Alternate hot and cold compresses under your eyes for 10 minutes. Then apply a teaspoon of almond oil mixed with half teaspoon of lime juice on the dark surface every night before going to bed.
Add some mint leaves, lemon juice, and salt to tomato juice and drink.
Drinking good amount of water also helps in lightening the dark circles under the eyes.
Application of cream with vitamin E and C also helps in reducing the dark circles.
Dandruff
Prevention of Dandruff
Washing your hair at least three times a week.
Avoiding the use of chemicals on the scalp, such as those used in hair colouring.
Making sure that you have enough vitamins such as zinc, beta-carotene, B6, B12 and selenium in your diet.
Regular daily brushing.
Sunlight may be good for dandruff. But because exposure to ultraviolet light damages your skin and increases your risk of skin cancer, don't sunbathe.
Home Remedies for Dandruff
The use of fenugreek seeds is one of the most important remedies in the treatment of dandruff.
A valuable prescription for removal of dandruff is the use of green gram powder. The hair should be washed twice a week with two tablespoons of this powder mixed with half a cup of curd.
Create a mixture of curd, lime juice, cider, vinegar, and amla juice and apply to hair.
Apply warmed coconut oil with the juice of two lemons, and leave in hair for two hours before shampooing out.
Exposure of the head to the rays of the sun is also useful measure in the treatment of dandruff.
Rinse the hair after soaking some neem leaves in water and then filtering.
Pimples
Prevention of Acne
To keep skin conditions under control, observe the following suggestions:
Try to avoid chocolates, nuts, fried and fatty foods.
Reduce the oiliness of the skin.
Vitamin E is also important to prevent scarring from acne and removing old scars.
Have a well-balanced, regular diet with lots of fresh fruit juices.
Do not squeeze pimples, which often leads to infections, worse acne, and scars.
Home Remedies for Acne
Take morpheme neem supplements for natural skin care.
Unboiled milk mixed with gram flour has been proved effective for the daily wash of acne skin.
Drink a glass of wheat grass juice daily to remove acne.
Apply fresh lime juice mixed with a half glass of boiled milk for treating pimples, blackheads and cracked skin.
The orange peel is valuable in the treatment of acne.
Apply fresh mint juice over the face every night for the treatment of acne, pimples, insect stings, eczema, scabies, & other skin infections.
Aloe Vera juice applied twice a day can greatly speed up the healing of acne lesions.
Ice down the acne before bed.
Vitamin A tablets are also a natural and effective acne cure.
Body pain
Prevention of Body pain
Exercise regularly. An inactive lifestyle contributes to lower back pain.
Push rather than pull when you must move heavy objects.
Quit smoking:- Smokers have diminished oxygen levels in their spinal tissues, which can hinder the healing process.
Maintain a healthy weight:- Being overweight puts strain on your back muscles. If you're overweight, trimming down can prevent back pain.
Always try to keep your knees and hips level.
Home Remedies for Body pain
Massaging the affected area with any oil will provide relief from the pain.
Mix two teaspoonful of winter cherry with ghee and molasses to make porridge. Eat this porridge with an empty stomach for 15 days.
Apple cider vinegar has shown to give beneficial results.
Gomukhasana is the most beneficial yogic asana for the cure of joint pains.
Mix fresh carrot juice with equal parts of lemon juice. Take one large teaspoonful everyday.
A gentle massage with Arthcare Oil is recommended to relieve joint pain and to strengthen the bone tissues, the skeletal and the neuromuscular systems, giving a comfortable movement of joints and muscles.
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