Dengue home remedy - Papaya

Heard a lot that Papaya juice can help in remedying Dengue fever. Luckily, papaya trees are equally ubiquitous in tropical climates. Read on.

I have not tested this nor do I know if this helps or causes any harm. The following is an excerpt from an email that I received.

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Papaya Juice - Cure for Dengue You may have heard this elsewhere but if not I am glad to inform you that papaya juice is a natural cure for dengue fever. As dengue fever is rampant now, I think it's good to share this with all.

A friend of mine had dengue last year. It was a very serious situation for her as her platelet count had dropped to 28,000 after 3 days in hospital and water has started to fill up her lung. She had difficulty in breathing. She was only 32-year old. Doctor says there's no cure for dengue. We just have to wait for her body immune system to build up resistance against dengue and fight its own battle. She already had 2 blood transfusion and all of us were praying very hard as her platelet continued to drop since the first day she was admitted.

Fortunately her mother-in-law heard that papaya juice would help to reduce the fever and got some papaya leaves, pounded them and squeeze the juice out for her. The next day, her platelet count started to increase, her fever subside. We continued to feed her with papaya juice and she recovered after 3 days!!! Amazing but it's true. It's believed one's body would be overheated when one is down with dengue and that also caused the patient to have fever. papaya juice has cooling effect.

Accordingly it is raw papaya leaves, 2pcs just cleaned and pound and squeeze with filter cloth. You will only get one tablespoon per leaf. So two tablespoon per serving once a day. Do not boil or cook or rinse with hot water, it will loose its strength. Only the leafy part and no stem or sap. It is very bitter and you have to swallow it like Won Low Kat. But it works.
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How to recognize Stroke - STR Method

Stroke Identification using STR Method .

The following is an email that I received from a good friend that talks about how to identify Stroke when it happens to any one. I HAVE NOT TESTED THIS NOR DID ANYONE CONFIRM THAT THIS WORKS. Here is the content of the email:

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STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a BBQ, a friend, Ingrid, stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE - STR
Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps, STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

S *Ask the individual to SMILE.

T *Ask the person to TALK, to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently: It is sunny out today.)
R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue... if the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call hospital / doctor immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
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Can ants replace your weatherman?

Do you really need a weatherman on TV to tell you if its going to rain today? Or
weather.com to tell you how cloudy or rainy it is going to be in the next few hours?

One of the interesting theories I have heard is that animals can recognize big changes coming in the nature before we humans know about it (without the use of technology). This theory probably may have plenty of proofs already, I am not just aware of it and hence I am calling this a theory at this point. It is said that animals are aware of an ensuing earth quake or any other catastrophe even before human senses can pick up. Many animals display strange behavior before any major earthquakes and that is explainable because they are more susceptible to the subtle environmental changes than we are.

When I googled on this topic, I came across this PBS article that said animals can hear infrasonic sounds during earthquake and gets terrified. This way the article rationalizes about the animals learning about the impending danger ahead of time. Anyways, my point is that animals are more tuned into the nature and are more sensitive to changes in the nature than we humans are.

One of the simple techniques that villagers use to predict rain is look for the clouds and the darkness (greyishness) of the clouds to tell if its going to rain. But that is kind of natural to look at clouds. However, one other place to look at is the behavior of the ants. Even when it is sunny and there are no signs of clouds, the villagers say that ants can recognize if rain is on its way.

When I was in high school, we played plenty of Tennis on clay courts. It was hard to find these concrete courts in India then. We (our club) did not own a rain cover, and if it rains then our game was washed away for that week. But for all the matches (not as big as a tournaments) that we had to plan, this rain was an uncertainty. One day one of the elderly gentleman taught me that we can look at the behavior of black ants to know if it is going to rain. If these black ants carry food on their head and are moving from a burrow on the ground to a safer place, then ants are sensing imminent rain to that area. You can see this as a thin line of black ants carrying white piece of food. From then on we looked for ants carrying its food around to decide if its
going to rain the next day.

That makes sense because ants want to protect their food during the rain and hence will move their food storage to safer areas. Ants are able to recognize and forecast the rain better since they need to protect theri food from rain. Probably ants have developed that skill over time since it helps their survival. And once they know that it is going to rain, they move their food to safer areas.

It is fascinating for such a small creature to sense the nature's happenings ahead of time, and then protects itself accordingly. But hey, there might be many more interesting things in this world that we might not aware of!

-Nidhi

Can your pee tell if you are diabetic?

Some of the practices that man has developed after his many learning experiences are amazing. Sometimes I wonder if the modern man who is so reliant on the modern advancements and technology, can demonstrate some simple common sense that our ancestors showed by using nature around us so much effectively.

One of the most fascinating stories I learnt was how some of the rural doctors, called NaaTi Vaidyas, used the simple functioning of the nature to diagnose if an individual had Diabetes or not. Seems quite obvious after you read it.

A land area that is rich in some kind of black ants is selected and the patient is made to pee near an ant burrow. If the patient's urine had excessive sugar, then that attracts the ants from the burrows. The ants usually line up around the wetness of the pee and eat the sugar in the urine. This tells the vaidya if the patient is diabetic or not. Not sure if this also tells the vaidya about the extent of the sugar content.

I have not witnessed this directly, but I will try to find out more about this the next time I visit India. Maybe, if someone has tried this, you can share your experience with us in the comments section.

-Nidhi