Dry Hair

* Warm half a cup of mayonnaise and apply to your hair. Cover with a shower cap and leave for 15-20 minutes, then shampoo as usual.

* Massage your head with a paste of a mashed ripe banana and mashed ripe avocado mixed together. Rinse with cold water after 15 minutes.

* Break an aloe vera leaf and squeeze out the liquid. Apply this liquid to your scalp and wash after an hour.

* Massage the scalp with warm almond, coconut or olive oil, cover your hair with a warm and wet towel for around 30 minutes and then shampoo as usual.

* Mix together half a cup of curd and a tablespoon honey. Apply this mixture on your scalp, hair strands and ends. Shampoo after 30 minutes.

* Add 2 tablespoon gram flour to a cup of coconut milk and mix well. Gently massage it into your scalp and rinse well after 5-10 minutes.

* Mix honey with warm and apply the paste on your scalp and hair. Leave for 35-40 minutes and then shampoo as usual.

* After washing your hair, use flat beer (beer without the fizz) as the last rinse.

Stay Young and Fit!

         

Enjoyment: If you enjoy your work and take an active interest in what goes around you, you are assured of a happy and long life.

Positive attitude: Always be positive in your every approach. A positive attitude to life leads to a riper and longer age.

Sound health: The general state of your physical health and fitness, your weight, diet, how much you smoke and the amount of exercise you take, affects your resistance to disease.

Emotional outlook: Maintain good relationship with your husband or wife, with your parents, relatives and friends.

Satisfaction: Always be satisfied with yourself; whatever you do and whatever you have. Always remember that satisfaction is the greatest remedy of everything. Nobody is perfect in this world.

Optimistic outlook: An optimistic outlook on life, contentment with your place in life and a general satisfaction with your personal worth are of vital importance.

Psychological and intelligence factors: Use your mental faculties and your intelligence level properly. Try to solve your problem with logical point of view rather than emotionally. Freed your mental and emotional disorders as much as you can.

Adjustment: Adjustment is the greatest success of life. Try to adjust with life, with the people around you and the situation coming ahead of you.

Environment: You should live in area where you can develop your creativity and spirituality; and where you can find bliss and peace.

Active: Always remain active in your life. Always remember that an idle mind is a devil’s workshop.

Love yourself, love your family and love every creature of this world.

Always remember ‘time and tide wait for none.’

And finally, hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

The vital factors involved in longevity are those associated with keeping active, good attitude, good adjustment and satisfied life.

Common Ailments

Common cold: Mix a tablespoonful of limejuice with half a cup of boiling water. Add enough honey to sweeten it. Drink it hot and take rest. The effect is almost immediate.

Sore throat: Mix honey and chunnam(lime) and smear it over the depression below the Adam’s apple on the throat.

Indigestion and pain in the stomach: Mash a raw piece of ginger and squeeze out the juice by adding some hot water. Add honey to the juice and drink it warm.

Any throat infection: Gargle with a teaspoon of salt solution in a glass of warm water.

Burns and scalds: Salt water is an unfailing aid for burns and scalds. At once apply salt water to prevent thin bubbles on the skin and other complications.

Rheumatism, arthritis, chest infections: Massage the whole body with neem oil.

Severe earache: It is relieved by dropping a few drops of warm neem oil.

Heart burn and gas trouble: Roast garlic in the fire without removing its outer skin and then peeled and eat. It gives instant relief.

Headache: Take a few cloves of garlic and rub them over a stone adding a few drops of water. Heat the paste in a spoon and smear it over the forehead with bearable warmth. It gives instant relief.

Influenza: A decoction made out of pepper and jaggery or honey is a check on influenza.

Dysentery: Strong tea without milk or sugar is a treatment for dysentery.

For insect bites and stings: Rub a half-cut of onion over the offending spot. It takes away the poison immediately.