Many people mix corn flour after heating it with cane sugar and eat it fresh and warm at night to cure flu. If the flu gets prolonged, they would sift the Lassi and drink it luke warm at night before sleeping. If someone got pneumonia, they would give him sifted Lassi day and night again and again.
I met an old man from village, I asked him that he lives away from cities so how does he treat illnesses. He said they suffer from fewer illnesses. In the beginning hardly anyone got ill, people had a very simple diet, many of them were landlords, used to raise cattle, cultivate land, take all sorts of cereal from the land. No one knew about any manure. They used to get up early in the morning and have last night’s leftover bread with milk, yogurt or lassi and leave for their daily work. No one used to have tea. In the afternoon, mostly they had spinach, pumpkin etc cooked in lassi. Sometimes, they would cook the pulses grown in their own land. They obtained potatoes from their own land. If anyone got flu, they would keep 2 to 3 potatoes in the smoldering ash from the stove for a few minutes. They would cook in this little time; the skin was peeled, potato sprinkled with salt and eaten at night. The flu would cure within two to three days. Many people mix corn flour after heating it with cane sugar and eat it fresh and warm at night to cure flu. If the flu gets prolonged, they would sift the Lassi and drink it luke warm at night before sleeping. If someone got pneumonia, they would give him sifted Lassi day and night, again and again. They would keep the patient warm, and massage his chest and ribs with garlic mixed with mustard oil. The patient would cure in a few days only.
Children often suffer from measles and chicken pox. We boil dried grapes (Munaqqa) in water and give this to them and also give them egg yolks, children get better. If someone has a stomachache, we give them crushed mint half a teaspoon, added to lassi along with a little salt. The person feels relieved within 5 minutes. For all types of skin problems, fever, pneumonia etc, we keep giving water of the sifted lassi again and again. Allah Taalah blessed us with health again. For body aches, crush ginger and give it with milk. Ratan joot (alkanet roots) Halwa is given at night to cure backaches. If there was pain from a wound, take mamaikh (Paeonia emodi) rhizome and crush it into fine powder and have one quarter of a teaspoon of it with warm milk at night. In 3 to 4 days, the patient will be cured. Other than these, for every illness, they recited Surah Fatiha 7 times and blow in on the patient, and blew it on water and gave that water to the patient as well. Whenever there was a difficulty, or one got scared and terrorized, they would recite Ayatul Kursi. He told me that they have to go to the jungle to obtain wood for living and there are lions and other animals in the jungle. But they keep reciting Ayatul Kursi because of which the animals do not even come into their sight.
