The Secret of Good Health and Agility in old Age (M. A. Baha-u-Din)
See the tooth worm with your eyes: Prescription Take 12 Gram onion seeds, a used shisha (hookah) bowl, and five to six burning coals. Method: First clean your teeth with a brush or miswak. Put the coals under the hookah (narghile and water pipe) bowl so that they burn then put the onion seeds in the small hole of the bowl and immediately inhale the steam through your mouth, don’t blow on it. Remove your mouth from the bowl after one minute. If there is saliva while inhaling, drop it in the bowl; don’t lift your head. Leave it after one minute and see, worms that fall on the coals will not be visible as they are burnt but you will find worms that fall to the side as soon as they come in contact with coal, white and slightly thinner than rice moths. Treatment of Dental Caries and Puss If you are suffering toothache due to dental caries and infection, keep garlic, dried-ginger, or clove in your mouth, it will cure the puss and help you get rid of the pain. To avoid Deafness Putting three drops of lukewarm almond oil in the ears after every ten days protects from deafness. Stops menstruation with just a Single Dose Burn a plain paper and save its ashes. Don’t take it during the first three days as in the first three days blood flow is fast so it is harmful to use it. If the blood doesn’t stop after four to five days, take two Masha ashes with plain water, it will be beneficial. Sayings of an Elderly Person An elderly person said to a friend that eating meat causes obesity, eating jaggery strengthens the brain, drinking milk strengthens the penis, and eating fennel improves the eyesight. The benefit of Jaggery A hundred years old man was having the health like youngsters, when he was asked about the secrets he said, “I eat a half quarter of a kg jaggery, daily after half an hour of dinner and I am completely fit and healthy without any medicine.” Health Secret of a Shepherd A shepherd remained healthy until old age, even to the point of death, he told at the insistence of people that he couldn’t take any particular medicine or fruit as he was very poor but there is a tree in the forest, below that there is a pool of dirty water. The fruit of the tree falls in the pool. Whenever I go to the forest, I always drink water from that pool to my fill. Though the water is bitter somehow, I drink it and it’s the secret of my health. When people went there, they found that it was a myrobalan tree. Everyone admitted that it was something useful. It keeps you young with black hair, healthy teeth, and eyesight and keeps all your organs strong. It is easily available at the herbal-drugs store. If available in dry form, five to seven Masha powder should be used to make its tea, three spoons of myrobalan jam are good enough to take at one time.
