For people like us living in the hot climate most of the excretory happens through the sweat only. When this sweat gets dried up on the skin then it forms as dirt on the skin and micro organisms appear on it. That causes bad smell around. That is the reason why the modern science has told to take bath twice a day. Only after the sweat has dried up totally we should take bath.
Generally skin is of three kinds: dry skin, oil skin and general skin. Based on their nature the effects are caused. The micro organisms like the bacteria causes pimples on the skin, prickly heat, rash, eczema and cracks. Generally if the waste in the blood increases the skin infections forms.
Now let us see the remedies that the Siththars have told for these skin infections.
To cure prickly heat
- By rubbing the sandal wood and adding it with the extract of turmeric and applying it on the face it cures the prickly heat.
- Take the datura plant leaves and apply castor oil on it and fry them and by applying it on the prickly heat then it would ripen and break. This should be done twice or thrice.
To cure the pimples
- If we grind the stalk of cockscomb greens and apply it on the pimples on the face that it would get ripen and break.
- If we grind the thuthi* leaves and apply it on the pimples then the pimples will be cured.
To cure the rashes
- Crush the roots of cassia plant finely and add equal measures of camphor, gumbenzoin and make kuzhith thailam and apply it on the ring worm and th e rashes, it will fall off by itself.
- Grind the peetha rohini with honey and applying it will cure ring worm and other skin diseases.
To cure the cracks
- Take the justicia tranquebariensis and grind it by by adding milk to it and eat it by adding milk to it will cure the cracks.
*Thuthi - wrinkled leaved evening mallow (a kind of plant)
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