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Traditional Home Remedies for Cold & Cough, Stomach Ache & NauseaADVERTISEMENTKriti Malik, NDTVUpdated: July 11, 2018 15:03 IST

Traditional Home Remedies for Cold & Cough, Stomach Ache & Nausea

It's happened on several occasions that we've negated what our mothers and grandmothers have said. The times when they told us to eat soaked almonds daily or told us to gulp a tall glass of milk for stronger bones. And the time when they force-fed us ghee saying it would make us healthy. With DESI nuskas up their sleeve, they've constantly questioned the effectiveness of allopathy and emphasized the effectiveness of home-remedies that have been passed on from generation to generation.

Had I not witnessed the magic of these remedies first-hand, I would have probably labeled them as a hoax. But I've been cured by my dadi's kaada when I couldn't MANAGE to complete an entire sentence without coughing and by my mother's Sheera when I felt weak and tired. Kaada is basically a mix of ginger, TULSI leaves, pepper corn (crushed) and boiling hot water and Sheera is a gorgeous golden coloured syrup made withbesan(gramflour) and sugar.A lot of these home remedies have their roots in Ayurveda and you'll find that some of the ingredients like ginger, turmeric and honey have been named in ancient texts as natural healers. Traditional medicine is still being practiced in many of our homes and is a testament to the phrase 'old is gold'.We're in no way implying that traditional medicine should be the only form of treatment. We are only trying to understand the reason why Ayurvedic or traditional home-remedies have been around for so many years. They're safe, natural, in a lot of cases effective and have almost no SIDE effects. A medicine strategy report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) corroborates this - " For millions of people, herbal medicines, traditional treatments, and traditional practitioners are the main source of health care, and sometimes the only source of care. This is care that is close to homes, accessible and affordable. While the affordability of this method of treatment might stand out, they are also a great way of coping with the relentless rise of chronic non-communicable diseases."