Nama Dwaar Nibbles

1.   Thulasi , when taken along with pepper in the evenings for three days consecutively, treats cold, cough and fever.

2.   Irritation in the urinary tract is healed when the juice of Thulasi and cow’s buttermilk mixed together are taken thrice a day.

3.   When the juice of Thulasi with salt is consumed in an empty stomach for forty eight days, epilepsy gets cured.

4.   Chest pain is alleviated when Thulasi’s juice is taken along with honey thrice a day.

5.   The juice of Thulasi mixed with water and taken in the early mornings for a hundred days is a great therapy for all sorts of diseases.

6.   Thirst, flatulence, and absence of appetite are eased when Thulasi’s juice is drunk, mixed with hot water.

7.   Thulasi and two pinches of Omam (Carum Carvi is its botanical name), well ground and mixed with water, and consumed once in the mornings after food, is a sure remedy for chicken pox and measles.

8.   Even the poisonous bite of a scorpion is cured when the affected area is rubbed with the leaves of Krishna Thulasi (dark thulasi).

9.   When the juice of Thulasi is taken in the mornings and evenings for forty days, it acts as a treatment for leprosy!

Geneticists and medical researchers have recently discovered that marriages amongst close relatives could cause congenital disorders in the progeny.

The insight and the genius of our Rishis is such that they have laid out a system of ‘gotra’ (lineage) and have decreed long long ago that marriages amongst people of same ‘gotra’ is strictly prohibited, thereby preventing many congenital disorders due to marriages amongst close relatives!

We see that today’s science only attempts to corroborate those facts from our rich tradition, which the ‘modern man’ dismisses as superstition.

According to  Ayurveda shastra, one gets afflicted by mental ailments such as insomnia, sorrow and suffers loss of memory –

•  when he fails to respect the ones who deserve to be respected or ridicules them
•  when he does not get what he expects
•  when he loses interest in life

The science of genetics, today, states that the physical, emotional and mental characteristics of a person are inherited from his ancestors, through the DNA that he carries.

Our Sanatana Dharma has known this since ages and kept it in tradition.  That is the whole concept of ‘gotra’.  Through the ‘gotra’  one’s genealogy is traced back  all the way up to the earliest members!

Also, we have known that we inherit the qualities of those ancestors!

For instance, don’t we remark about an angry man that ‘he gets angry as if born in Viswamitra Gotra’ ? !!