Self Care

- Mixing Aamla powder with oil for massaging helps in itching problem.
- Apply BitterGourd juice (or its peeling) to pimples.
- For headache caused due to dryness & heat; apply curd to roots of your hair. Don't do this if you're allergic to dairy products; or sufferring from cough, cold etc.
- To get rid of cold (jukaam), put 2 pinches sugar & 1 pinch salt in your mouth; then drink slightly hot milk on top of it. Cold would be gone in 2 days.

What to do when there is an insect in your ear?

Imagine yourself sleeping comfortably in your hammoc, or in your tent during a camping vacation and all of sudden you hear sound of an insect, drawing closer to your ear.... hey wait, that noise is not drawaing closer to your ear, it is coming from your ear!!!

First some Dont's...

- Don't put anything in your ear. This means, don't try to use any ear-bud, your finger, forcep or any kind of object to pull the insect out. You might hurt yourself & worsen the situation.
- Don't put any kind of medicine, oil or any kind of ointment.
- Most important - Don't panic.

Now the trick:
- Go to a place where it is really dark and hold a torch in front of your ear. In most of the cases, the insect would move towards light and eventually come out of your ear.

... and don't forget to see your doctor.

Self Care - Tricks to avoid Motion Sickness

I've been suffering from motion sickness for long, and frankly speaking, I haven't found anything that can cure it. However, I've come across various tricks that often help.
What I've read at various places is that motion sickness is caused due to confusion between what we are seeing and what we are feeling. Our eyes tell our brain that we're moving with respect to the whole world, whereas rest of the body feels that we're not moving (with respect to the vehicle). This leads to slight dizziness followed by nausea.
Anyways, enough theory, lets get to the points.

First, some Dos and Donts:

- Don't eat heavy food prior to traveling, but don't even stay hungry.
- Avoid smoking.
- While traveling don't read. Not even sms on your mobile phones.
- If possible, choose a seating location where you can feel some air on your face.
- While sitting, sit in a position such that your body is straight and you're leaning forward; as if you're paying attention in your class.


Now some tricks:

- Wherever possible, go for a nap.
- Eat ginger in any form; could be a toffee, some home cooked light food or even in raw form (if you can stand the taste).
- Mint is also helpful. For some people even chewing gum works.
- This one is slightly weird one: some taxi drivers even advised to sit on a newspaper. I don't know what's the reason behind it, but worth giving a try.
- This one is the most successful one for me: I purchase lots of lemon & orange candies, and keep at least one in my mouth all the time.
- This is another one that I found on internet; it sounds little weird but worth giving a try:
From the second you get onto the vehicle, start to chew gum.(About 3 pieces.) This helps with involving your jaw and ears both accumulate and it really works. Towards the middle of the trip, spit out your gum and snack on some saltines. These put more sodium in your body, which combines with the sugar, but also relaxes your jaws and forehead. Snack for about 10 minutes. When your done with your salty snack, put about 3 pieces of fresh gum back in your mouth and chew away. Once whatever you're in starts to stop, put in another stick of gum and chomp the gum like a cow, opening your mouth as wide as possible, circling and closing. Stick your fingers in your ears.
Once you start to exit the vehicle, keep going on with the cow chomps, but remove your fingers from ears.
About 10 minutes after landing, stomp your feet and your motion sickness should be long gone.

Taking care of your electronic gadgets

- If you are not going to use your electronic device (mobile, camera etc.); remove the batteries from it and keep them aside.
- If your mobile, camera has fallen into water then try following trick:
First, keep the device in a standing position so that maximum water drains out automatically. After that, keep device in a plastic container, and cover it with uncooked dry rice and let it stay there for 24 to 48 hours. Rice will absorb excess moisture.
This trick might not work for sea water.






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Cleaning Tips

- If you are not going to use iron based utensils for a while, then put a coating of lemon drops or mustard oil to avoid them from rusting.
- Never keep a metallic spoon in pickle jar.
- Always hang white clothes in direct sunlight and coloured clothes in shade.
- Washing cake too small to be used can be dropped in washing machine to wash some more clothes.
- Add salt to water for Washing jeans; it would remove all dirt.
- Newspapers are very good for wiping moist mirror surfaces. Specially helpful for cleaning car screens.
- If you're unable to find cellotape tip; then put it in refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- Instead of throwing away banana peels, put these in rose plants. These would act as fantastic manure.
- If oil, ghee or milk has spilled on floor; first put some dry wheat flour on it & then wipe with newspaper. Slipperyness & spots would vanish.
- Rub potato piece on burnt carpet area; burn marks would fade.
- Apply car wax on shoes to make them water proof.
- If you put little bit of salt in freezer section, then ice tray would not stick to the bottom.
- To break coconunt, draw a circle in middle of coconut with water. Later, strike gently on that line with belan, or small hammer. Coconut would break in perfect circle.
- To remove lipstick stains from clothes, apply some vaseline onto the stain & wash with soap after at least one hour.
- If thermas is not being used since long, it starts smelling bad. To remove this odour, keep some sirca/vinegar in it for some time; later wash the thermos with cold water. Smell would be gone.







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