Nervous disorders include headache, vertigo and nervous exhaustion.
For Nervous Disorders
Steep 1 teaspoon each dried amla powder and coriander seeds in water overnight. Strain and drink next morning. To improve the flavour, sugar can be added. Repeat for a few days.
Heat 2 tablespoon sesame oil (til ka tel). Mix in 1/2 teaspoon each finely powdered cardamom and cinnamon. Apply this on head.
Mix 7 to 8 almonds with 7 to 8 kernels of pumpkin seeds, 1 teaspoon poppy seeds (khuskhus) and 3 tablespoons wheat. Soak in water overnight. Next morning, remove the outer skin of the almonds and grind together into a fine paste. Heat separately 2 teaspoons ghee and fry 1/2 teaspoon cloves (laung). Add the paste to it along with some milk and boil the whole mixture. Sweeten with sugar and drink everyday for a few days.
Depression
Boil 1/4 teaspoon powdered cardamom seeds in thin tea water and drink.
Mix 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg powder with 1 tablespoon freshly extracted amla juice. Take 3 times a day.
Nervousness
Apply fresh lime juice on the head. Massage well before showering off.
Steep 1 tablespoon mint leaves in 1 cup water for 30 minutes. Drink the infusion, do not boil.
Memory Improvement
Take a mixture of 1 teaspoon honey and a pinch of finely powdered cinnamon (dalchini) every night regularly.
Take 1/2 teaspoon black cumin powder and mix it with honey. Eat small quantities of it twice a day.
Mix 1 teaspoon each amla root powder and white sesame seeds (safed til) powder. Add 1 teaspoon honey and eat everyday for a few days.
Chestnut and Almonds are good for memory. Take with milk in early morning.
Epilepsy
Rub tulsi juice over your body everyday after taking bath.
Keep the blossoms of tulsi inside the fold of your hanky every time. At the time of attack smell the blossom deeply.
If the attack makes one unconscious, grind 11 leaves of tulsi, add a little salt to it and put a few drops of this juice in the patient’s nostrils. He would immediately regain his consciousness. Keep a tulsi plant in your verandah or somewhere near your bedroom.
Hysteria
If the hysteric effect be due to excess of phlegm in the body, make the patient smell tulsi leaves and drink 5 tulsi leaves juice.
If it is caused by the excessive heat going to the head, grind five tulsi leaves and five black pepper by mixing them in water and ask the patient to drink this water every morning and evening for a week’s time.
Migraine
Get a small bunch of tulsi blossom, dry in the shade and grind it in powder form. Just take 2 gms. of it mix about half a spoonful of honey and lick it. It is very efficacious treatment. In case you feel like, have another dose for a total cure.
Headache
- Roast some dry ajwain on a tawa. Keep it tightly it in a muslin bag and sniff frequently.
- Make a paste of 2-3 powdered cloves and salt. Apply this paste on the forehead.
- Mix 8-10 basil (tulsi) leaves, 1/2″ piece ginger (adrak), 7 black pepper corns powdered coarsely with 1 large cup (200 ml) water. Boil for 2 minutes. Remove from heat, cover and keep for 2-3 minutes. Strain, add boiled milk, sugar and drink warm. Lie down covering yourself with a sheet for 5-10 minutes. It is very helpful in headaches, cold, indigestion. Drink 2-3 times a day. For children reduce quantity to half.
- A ripe apple, after removing the upper rind and the inner hard portion should be taken with a little salt every morning on an empty stomach. Continue for a week. This yields good results even in case of chronic headaches.
- Mix 1 teaspoon finely grind cinnamon in 1 teaspoon water and apply on the forehead. It is very effective in headache due to exposure to cold air.
- Crush an onion and apply the paste on the head.
- Grind 10-15 tulsi leaves with 4 cloves (laung) and 1 teaspoon dried ginger (sonth) into a paste and apply.
Headache on The Side
Powder equal quantities of licorice (mulathi) and cumin (jeera). Take 1/4 teaspoon everyday along with 1 teaspoon honey for a month.
Mix 1 teaspoon each of the following powders and store: camphor, nutmeg, cardamom and cloves. Take 2 pinches with warm water.
Headache Due to Exposure to Cold Air
Mix 1 teaspoon finely grind cinnamon in 1 teaspoon water and apply on the affected parts.
Head Heaviness
Grind the fresh amla fruits into a fine paste and apply on affected parts.
Grind 2 to 3 cloves into a fine paste along with 1/2 teaspoon dried ginger (sonth) and apply on nose, forehead etc.
Hemicrania (Adhasisi)
When chronic cold makes the extra phlegm block half of the head, this trouble surfaces. Take a smokeless but hot cowdung cake (Upala) and throw grind turmeric powder over it. It will emit large clouds of smoke. Just inhale this smoke which will make you cough and sneeze and all the blocked phlegm will be expectorated through them. Besides, this, put water turmeric’s lukewarm solution in the opposite ear you have this trouble in.
