Some spiritual remedies suggested by a great Saint from Pune H.H. Aba Upadhye

Some spiritual remedies suggested by
H.H. Aba Upadhye to overcome physical illnesses

Disease	Remedy
1. Cold and cough (due to increased kapha)	Boil pieces of 1 small onion in one glass of water for 10 minutes. Add a teaspoon of jaggery and drink. This decreases the cough.
2. Chronic cold	Remove the stalk of a betel leaf. Add ½ teaspoon of honey to it and eat after lunch and dinner for 21 days.
3. Asthma	Remove the stalk of a betel leaf. Add ½ teaspoon of honey to it and eat with 2 pinches of ginger powder.
4. Kidney stones	Boil 2 teaspoons of celosia (kurdu) seeds in 1 liter of water for 10 minutes and drink that water when thirsty, throughout the day.
5. Diphtheria	Make a powder of calabash (kamandal) tree fruits and the middle part of the screwpine (kewda) flower and mix the two powders. Roll a sheet of paper to make a bidi. Fill it with the powder, light and hold it in the mouth and inhale the smoke. Do not exhale through the nostrils. If the diseased is a child then an adult should take the smoke and release it into the mouth of the child through a straw.
6. Plague	Rub ice cubes on a plague node for 2 minutes.
7. 72 diseases including stomach disorders	Roots of combed nail plant (kombadnakhi) are useful in 72 diseases (available in Ayurvedic shops in Bhimashankar/Tulsibag in Pune). Levigate with milk or water and consume a teaspoon before lunch and dinner.
8. Ascites (accumulation of fluid in abdominal cavity)	Apply oil to a calotropis gigantean (rui) leaf and warm on a pan. Foment the abdomen with it and keep it tied to the abdomen all night.
9. Heart disease	Perform yogic exercises. Corpse posture (shavasan) is useful. Consume a teaspoon of arjun (terminalia arjuna) arishta (decoction prepared with natural fermentation process) and 1 teaspoon of moramla (gooseberry) after lunch and dinner.
10. Typhoid	Tie bark of the drumstick tree to the forehead. This lowers the body temperature.
11. Diseases of the brain	Consume jam of citron (mahalung) with chapatti.
12. Diabetes	Chew one leaf of gudmar (madhunashini) creeper on an empty stomach every morning.
13. White discharge in women	Mix 1 teaspoon of cummin seed powder with 1 teaspoon of ghee. Add a little sugar and consume.
14. Menstrual problems in women	Add 1 teaspoon of ashok (saraca asoca) arishta to 1 steel bowl (vati) of water and consume or take the homeopathic medicine ‘janocia ashoka’.
15. Worms	Consume a mixture of 1 teaspoon embelia ribes (vavdinga) powder and 1 teaspoon of ghee with a little sugar. or Boil 1 teaspoon of embelia ribes (vavdinga) powder in 1 steel bowl of water for some time and drink the concoction.
16. Hookworms (which cling to the intestine)	Consume a mixture of ½ teaspoon honey with a pinch of camphor.
17. Boils with pus	Consume the paste produced after levigating a jamlum seed.