Mud or earth another precious healing gift by mother nature, is a cooling and pain relieving home remedy, whether headache or stomach ache, the magical mud heals it all.
Today, from the home herbal remedies, the most ancient, primary, which was also used by the stone -age man, we are going to see such a remedy. When we use a herb, it needs to be brought, this is there just below your feet, the mud. From the five elements, one is the earth element, in which the mud or earth comes first, it is the name for the density, otherwise the elements are not names of some things or objects.
This mud is very lucky, it is an important element, why? Because from this mud itself, the entire wealth comes up, which wealth? Those who farm they know that for all these years, for last million years, every year, it is form this muddy earth that the food grains comes up, they all arise from the earth. True that seeds are to be sowed, yet just the seed is not enough, also the seed is one and it gives rise to the huge plant with thousands of seeds, all this is due to the earth.
This mud thus gives us prosperity and this mud has many qualities. And we have a deep relation with it, like we say in Hindi that all hard work was in vain, it got reduced to mud. At the end, the human will dissolve in the earth. This mud has everything, we are born from it and will finally merge into it. The earth where we are born, becomes our country, our nationality, our mother country.
Here are three types of mud, red, white and black. Here we have brought this earth. From where do we bring the mud. Where in the nearby area there is a water source, a lake, a river, if we go to close to the banks, there is sandy mud. Little further, we need to dig a hole 1-2 feet in diameter and 1-2 feet in depth, the mud from this pit is to be taken.
And we can’t use it immediately, it first needs to be kept in the heat, it needs to be nicely heated in the sun, and when it gets baked in the sun, then, it is nicely powdered and sieved, now the mud that we get is to be used.
It should be without any hard particles, sand or stone pieces, gravel etc. This mud or the mud from our garden can be used. This one thing is such that there is no loss in any form. Once the work is done, the mud can again be mixed into the plants at our porch or entrance. In some days, when it gets mixed with the other mud, after some days, it can be used again. Immediately on the next day, you cannot use the same mud. In this way, the mud maybe used.
The water needs to be first boiled , keep this in mind. So now we shall mix this water in the mud, and then by kneading slightly, make such a ball of mud. Then this ball is to be spread on a thin cotton cloth, cause the mud needs to be in contact with our body. The thinner the better, cloth is there so that we make make this band. This cloth mud band is to be kept wherever the treatment is to be done. Now for example we have fever and there is swelling then this belt is to be kept above the navel, for 20 minutes to half an hour, it will start drying due to the heat in the body.
And if there is constipation, pain in the abdomen, indigestion, then keep this belt below the navel. And one which is very important for the people, is that they have episodes of headache of and on, or even with fever, then we can keep this band on the forehead. For the forehead, the band can be a little thinner, here this one is the thicker band. The band for forehead maybe less than half an inch in thickness, this one is more like half or three-fourth inch. For problems related to the tummy, it is best to perform this therapy in the morning around 6 to 7 am, after the daily bowel cleaning. If there is headache, fever, then on the forehead. If the temperature is much higher, then you may directly apply the mud without the band, by making it a little thinner with some more water, like on the floor a layer of mud is applied in rural villages, and repeat the same after 2-3 hours. This is an excellent remedy.
So for all problems related to the belly, digestion problems, stomach ache, swelling, or swelling in different parts of the body, fever, headache, for all these problems this mud therapy is very effective.
When we keep this band over the tummy or on the head, and if a wind is blowing directly over the part, it is not good. For this what do we do, we have this type of hand towels at home, just cover the area of the band with such a towel so that the draft of wind does not affect the part, nor would any insect or flies etc sit on the part. And later when we remove after half an hour, you shall see that the water has been absorbed and the body has pulled in the healing effect of the mud and the therapy ends when the band is removed from the body.
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