INDIAN REMEDIES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8784, 11 April 1907, Page 1

INDIAN REMEDIES.

Great virtues are ascribed in India to the claws and horns of certain animals. Tigers’ claws (says a writer in the Madras Mail) are in great demand with the common people. One or two claws may be worn near the loins, but should one possess a large number the fortunate owner makes a garland of them and wears them around his neckDeer’s horn ground into fine paste is an excellent balm for pains and swellings. A more curious use is found for the same substance. It is sometimes made into a powder which is supposed to aid the growth of stunted womep. The joints taken from the long and slender tail of the black scorpion are supposed to keep

illness at arm’s distance when children wear them on their waist

A red or swollen eye is cured by having it touched with the bolt or chain of a door.

A remedy which I have seen applied with considerable effect in more than one epileptic fit is to place a bunch of keys in the palm of the sufferer. I have heard it said that the fit passes away as readily if the keys are placed on the head. A rather quaint remedy in the case of a sprained neck is to use an iron measure for a pillow. Sore throat is cured by spitting on red hot iron—quite the simplest and least expensive cure known to the native doctor.

Peacock’s flesh is a good medicine for acute rheumatism.