Cough

• Mix equal parts of lime juice and honey.
• Mixing a teaspoonful of honey with a few drops of brandy. Add a few drops of ginger juice to a teaspoon of honey.
• A cup of grape juice mixed with a teaspoon of honey is often helpful.
• A syrup of 1 teaspoonful raw onion juice with 1 teaspoonful of honey kept over 3 to 4 hours serves as an excellent cough syrup.
• Soak almonds overnight and remove their skin. A paste of these almonds with little butter and sugar is very useful for dry cough.
• An older child can reduce the cough considerably by sucking on a lump of sugar.

Cramps

• A pinch of rock salt kept on the tongue help relieve cramps.
• A diet with excess of salt, sweet lime juice with a teaspoon of table salt added to it or consumption of salads with excess salt is recommended.
  
  
  

Dandruff

• Apply a paste of grounded soaked fenugreek seeds (methi) over the scalp. Wash it with soap after 1 hour.
• Using lime juice for washing hair is often beneficial.
• Roots of white beet are boiled in water and massaged into the scalp every night.
• The use of curd kept over 2 to 3 days, lime juice, cider, vinegar and amla juice also helps to disperse dandruff.

Diarrhea

Give oral dehydration solutions which can be made at home

• Boiled and cooled water: 1 Liter.
• Common salt: 3/4 teaspoonful.
• Sugar: 5 teaspoonful.
• Lemon: 1/3

As an alternative, one can also give sweet lime water or aerated soft drinks to which a pinch of salt is added. Coconut water is an excellent substitute. Other choices can be rice water, rice kanji, buttermilk or lassi and weak tea.

If the baby demands solids, one can give rice, cereals, banana, mashed boiled potatoes, curd, pulses (dal), soup or khichdi.