Turmeric
I remember an incident from my childhood. It
was in a small village in Madurai. I was around 10 year old. It was holidays in
grandparents home. We were a group of 8 kids from the street playing under a
mango tree. When one of our friends fell from the tree, he landed on sharp
edged stone. His right legknee was hit and started bleeding heavily. We were
all panicked and didn’t know what to do. We carried him to my home and reported
to my grandma. She saw him bleeding and then gave him first aid. Cleaned the
wound with fresh water and wrapped a white cloth around the wound. She said he would be
alright. One full day went and the next day, the wound was bigger and it looked
like some third party particles went in his wound and that caused the wound to
septic. As we were brought up in cities like chennai, we were used to going to
doctor for everything. As I was expecting my grandma to take him to hospital,
she did something else. Ever so calm, she opened the home made bandage and
cleaned the wound again. She applied a yellow cream all over the wound. Then
left the wound in open. I was wondering what was she doing. After 12 hours, in
the evening, we were in for a surprise. His wound was almost gone. The cut was
closed. The puss around the wound was vanished. And he seemed very much normal.
What was the magic.. it was the turmeric, revealed my granny. Turmeric worked
the magic on his wound. Its antibacterial formula worked tremendously on the
wound and cured it. This is one of the many incidents in my life involving the
super medicine, turmeric.
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