Home Remedies

This section will contain weekly updates of home remedies and natural cures recommended by Pujya Sri Swami Sivananda.

Honey:

Medicine Chest: Always keep some honey in your domestic medicine chest. It is an agreeable sweetening ingredient for mixtures. It is a good vehicle in which to administer poweders for children, and Bhasma or metallic oxides like Makadwaja, Vasanta Kusumakara, etc. Pills can be made with the aid of honey.

Mel Depuratum is purified honey. Commercial honey is heated in a water bath and while still hot, is strained through a warm flannel. This is the way to purify honey.

Glucose and Laevulose: It contains mainly glucose and laevulose. It has a characteristic odour with a sweet and faintly acidic taste.

Honey has got the nutritive value of sugars and is an article of diet with certain people. It is prescribed for its soothing and flavouring properties. It makes good cough linctus. It is a laxative and is given to children for this purpose. It relieves dryness of the mouth and facilitates swallowing. 

Honey contains 70% dextrose and laevulose, also wax, dextrin, volatile oil and pollen.

Mel Borax: Powder Borax - 10%, Purified Honey - 90%.

Useful in ulcers in mouth, tongue and nipples of nursing mothers. This is a soothing, emollient and demulcent application.

Oxymel: Purified Honey - 70%, Acetic Acid - 15%, Water - 15%

Dose: 30-120 minims or drops. This is a common ingredient in cough mixtures. It is a very good expectorant. It brings out the sputum easily. 

The Morning Drink: 2 tablespoons of honey with 2 tablespoons of lemon and 1 ounce of water is a beautiful drink in the early morning. This is anti-bilious and anti-scorbutic. It is useful in spongy gums, impure blood and skin diseases.

A substitute for sugar and useful in burns: Honey is a substitute for sugar in diabetes. Honey and milk is a very good combination. This supplies much energy and vigour. Honey is useful in burns and scalds. It is a soothing application. It will prevent the formation of blebs if applied in time. 

Ulcers:  Yellow wax - 1 once, Purified Honey - 4 ounces. 

Melt these together with the help of gentle heat and strain. This is a beneficial stimulant application for indolent and other ulcers. This is admirably adapted for use in hot climates, where animal fats, the basis of so many ointments soon become rancid and unfit for medicinal use. 

Influence of Colour on Health:

Chromo-therapy is colour healing. Colour healing is a divine science. It is treatment of diseases by colour. Live, love and serve through colour.

Colour is a Divine Force. Colour is a food. Colour is born of sun power, the great energiser and comforter. Colour offers its comforts and services to man. How soothing is the influence of a green landscape, green pasture and a green curtain.

Light or colour is an actual substance. It is endowed with great power. It imparts power to the object which received it. It vibrates with a tremendous velocity. Colour exercises great influence on your health. It has a decided influence on your mental states and sense of well-being.

Colour establishes poise and harmony. It soothes and sustains. It heals and restores. Try to possess the wisdom of colour. Have a comprehensive understanding of the effects produced by the various colours if you wish to obtain successful results with the treatment by colour.

There is psychological influence of colours of account of their associations. Black and sombre colours suggest funerals and so have a depressing effect. Bright colours exercise a cheering influence because of their association with festivity and gaiety. Children jump in joy when they see festoons.

Light-rays are totally reflected by white and totally absorbed by black. Red, blue, green and other colours absorb all rays except those of their own colour.

Red:

Red gives the thermal rays and is a warming colour. Red is a great energiser. It is the father of vitality. Red is heating. It warms the arterial blood and promotes circulation of blood. It is stimulating to the arterial blood. It is desirable in cold or bluish conditions. Red is very rich in calorific rays. It is a contra-indicated in inflammable and over excitable conditions.

Red is a nerve stimulant. It is beneficial in chronic rheumatism, bronchitis, dysmenorrhoea, impotency and advanced cases of consumption. It is a great tonic.

Under the red light the red blood corpuscles multiply in the blood.

Red removes dormant or sluggish conditions. Red strengthens will power and courage. Red is useful in curing paralysis. 

Spinach, red skinned fruits, red currants, red plums, red cabbage, chillies, etc., radiate red rays.

Orange:

Orange is warming and cheering. Red orange is warmest of all. It is very beneficial in stimulating the blood and the nerves.

Chronic rheumatism, chronic asthma, bronchitis, gout, inflammation of the kidneys, gall stones, epilepsy, cholera and cessation of menstruation are cured by orange.

Orange skinned vegetables and fruits, carrots, pumpkins, oranges, apricots, mangoes, peaches, etc., radiate orange rays.

Yellow:

Yellow ray is inspiring, vitalising and stimulating. 

Banana, pineapple, lemons, yellow skinned fruits and vegetables radiate yellow rays.

Yellow is an effective treatment of all kinds of leprosy.

Yellow is useful in indigestion, constipation, flatulence, liver affections, diabetes, blind piles, eczema and other skin diseases, stomach troubles, nervous exhaustion, paralysis, eye-diseases, syphilis, and impotency. It stimulates the brain.

Green:

Green is the king of colours. It is a mild sedative. It is soothing and relieves pain. It is made up of blue and yellow. It preserves and strengthens the eye sight. It exercises a very soothing influence on the eyes and brain. It is very useful in inflammations of the womb, hysteria, etc. In sexual irritability and involuntary seminal discharges the green light is used over the back and the lower spine.

Green is beneficial in syphilis, neuralgia, diseases of the heart, blood pressure, headache, ulcers, cancer and influenza.

Blue:

Blue is astringent, refrigerant, cooling, contracting, antiseptic, febrifuge, spasmodic, soporific and anti-inflammatory.

Blue contains the chemical or actinic rays. It is a better sedative then the green. It relieves pain. It is a local anaesthetic too. The blue light is useful in all fevers, skin diseases and old ulcers.

Blue is beneficial in painful menstruation, spasms, headache, toothache, fevers, goitre, hoarseness of voice, purging, dysentery, diahorrea, jaundice, colic, biliousness, inflammation of bowels, etc.

Indigo:

Indigo is cooling and astringent. It is a mixture of warming red and cooling blue.

Indigo is useful in pneumonia, bronchitis, whooping cough, asthma, consumption, indigestion, eye, ear and nose troubles, nervous complaints, leucorrhoea, hydrocele and disease of the womb.

Violet:

If is a stimulant of the highest ideals. It is a stimulative to the intuitive, spiritual nature. Power of meditation increases if you meditate under the rays of the violet light.

Violet increases the red cells of the blood. If produces sleep in nervous conditions. It is useful in acute cases of tuberculosis.

Violet is beneficial in neuralgia, sciatica, epilepsy, rheumatism, cramps, cerebro-spinal meningitis, neurosis, etc.

Asthma:

Asthma is one of the most distressing complaints that a person can suffer from. If is an affection of the bronchial tubes characterised by violent attack of breathlessness, coughing and feeling of suffocation.

Often the patient, who has been sound asleep, wakes to find himself struggling for breath.

The juice of Adusa (Latin: Adhotoda-Vasica), a herb plant, has proven to be an ideal cure for asthma.

If half a tola (10 ml) of the juice of this plant is taken with honey at the time of the attack it gives immediate relief. Its use every morning cures the disease permanently in a few weeks time.

Last Update: 3rd June 2002