goanet-digest Tuesday, April 23 2002 Volume 01 : Number 3872
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Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
[Goanet] Kidnapping victim rescued - Almost Live Report
Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
[Goanet] 50 per cent cut Long Distance telephony call rates.
[Goanet] Found this on goabjp.com
[Goanet] Alishka - Ashley - Hats off!!!
[Goanet] re: Ancestral remedies & Santosh
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:50:50 +0400
From: "Sunila Muzawar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
Wonderful posting, Doc. I laughed and laughed.
Thanks,
Sunila
>From: "santoshhelekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
>Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:37:05 -0000
>
>Sunila wrote:
> >
> >Boil water with a handful of coriander and cummin (jeera) seeds.
> >Strain and cool down.
> >
> >No time to write the book, but if anybody is really interested in
> >doing so, Good Luck.
> >
>
>Paddy wrote:
> >
> >I am curious if anyone has similar or other experiences and if there
> >is any ascribable reason for their relief. Santosh usually offers
> >valuable insight on such matters :-)
> >
>
>
>I was thoroughly amused by Paddy's reminiscences of a breach boy
>stomping on somebody's aching back. It certainly beats mine of a 6
>year-old being chased around the house by a tyrannical (in a loving
>sort of way) grandmother with a can of "hingachem aajuth" in her
>thick firm hands. That is one instance of childhood trauma that I
>must admit I love to reminisce with great fondness.
>
>I would like to extend Paddy's and Sunila's wonderful lists of home
>remedies with the following nostrums from my late grandmother's IRCP
>(Independent Republic of Chimbel Pharmacopeia). Besides the monthly
>pure Shankarchhaap hingachem aajuth (Shankar brand asafoetida warm
>water enema), there was the weekly (every Sunday morning)
>kiraitiachem kodu vokhoth (medicated bitter water drained from boiled
>kiraitem leaves). These were supposed to flush the alimentary canal
>clean at both its unruly ends. But there were times when even these
>well-guarded ends did not justify the meals. For such occasions my
>grandma had the aalem-limbacho ros (ground ginger in lime juice with
>added salt). I now use this concoction as an appetizer, because if
>you ever need an excuse to eat something, believe me a taste of this
>juice in your mouth provides you one.
>
>For headaches, there was the soonth kaadop (paste of dried ginger
>smeared on the forehead). As it turns out, I have formed a Pavlovian
>association between the smell of soonth and my grandmother's face.
>She would have this stuff plastered on her forehead almost every
>evening, a small wonder after having spent the day haggling over the
>catch of the day with itinerant fisherwomen.
>
>There were of course the ubiquitous hot compresses and laying of cold
>hands, along with the mini-exorcisms (disht kaadop - some dried red
>chillies and salt drawn around the head and body, and then thrown
>away). And then there was the ganjanacho kasai (lemon grass tea).
>This one I liked. But it was reserved for the common cold with cough.
>
>I will end this post by mentioning one whose appeal to common
>intuition I have never been able to figure out. I think it was used
>when I was really sick and bedridden. It involved tying a few cloves
>of garlic in a knot around my belly. This, coupled with the no-bath-
>when-sick policy imposed on me, meant I stank of garlic for quite a
>while afterwards. I always had the nagging suspicion that this was
>meant to ground me for a few days. My grandparents couldn't bear to
>see me play.
>
>Thinking about these ancestral home remedies as a grown man with some
>education and with some ability to reason, I would have to conclude
>that these wonderful treatments are more of nostalgic than
>therapeutic value, unless of course you are of the type for whom
>nostalgia is panacea.
>
>It would be such a pleasure to read a compilation of Goan folk
>remedies.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Santosh
>
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:25:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Lawrie D'souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Kidnapping victim rescued - Almost Live Report
This guy Cecil seems to be a very talented guy. Should
serve as an asset to Goanet/Goa-World...oops ! am I
mixing up anything here.
Well I sure do enjoy your post.... thank God ! it
comes unedited. I am sure the rest of the folks too
are njoyin....
Reading the several interview you posted was tempted
to ask you to cover a report with VVS....
Our own Veronica.... I am willing to bear the cost of
the phone charges...
Thanks to BSNL for the slash of rates in the
International call sector. I am sure VSNL will follow
soon.
BSNL slashes call rates by 40 %...
Kudos BSNL..
Cheers !!
Lawrieking....
Cecil..I wish I could let you use my identity...
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:33:18 -0700
From: "Marlon Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
If there was one home remedy that terrified me or my siblings, it had to be kiraitia.
This stuff was horridly bitter. We would all know in advance that a dose of this stuff
awaited us in the morning as we would see the stuff being boiled in the pot the day
before. I would not sleep very well the night before as if I awaited my execution the
next day.
I gradually realized that the best way to consume this evil stuff was to direct the
liquid directly to the rear of one's mouth and therefore bypass the tongue (apparently
also an effective way to consume large amounts of alcohol). In boarding school, when
food was often a scare commodity, I even began to enjoy another home remedy favorite -
cod liver oil. In my often famished state, sucking on the "seven seas" capsules was
something I actually looked forward to, while sucking on some toothpaste often served
as a delicious minty dessert. Some guys even went to the extreme of pricking their
fingers and sucking their own blood, but I will save this story for a later date :)
My favorite home remedy however had to be what my aunt called "massad". It was a
concoction of egg yolk, sugar and brandy. I guess it is some kind of egg nog and was
supposedly very good for colds, which strangely enough, I suffered a lot of.
Marlon
>
>>From: "santoshhelekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: [Goanet] Ancestral Home Remedies
>>Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 07:37:05 -0000
>>I would like to extend Paddy's and Sunila's wonderful lists of home
>>remedies with the following nostrums from my late grandmother's IRCP
>>(Independent Republic of Chimbel Pharmacopeia). Besides the monthly
>>pure Shankarchhaap hingachem aajuth (Shankar brand asafoetida warm
>>water enema), there was the weekly (every Sunday morning)
>>kiraitiachem kodu vokhoth (medicated bitter water drained from boiled
>>kiraitem leaves). These were supposed to flush the alimentary canal
>>clean at both its unruly ends. But there were times when even these
>>well-guarded ends did not justify the meals. For such occasions my
>>grandma had the aalem-limbacho ros (ground ginger in lime juice with
>>added salt). I now use this concoction as an appetizer, because if
>>you ever need an excuse to eat something, believe me a taste of this
>>juice in your mouth provides you one.
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:41:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Lawrie D'souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] 50 per cent cut Long Distance telephony call rates.
Bharti slashes ILD charges; Rs 24/min to call US,
Europe
PTI
New Delhi, April 22
Telecom company Bharti today announced upto 50 per
cent cut in International Long Distance telephony call
rates.
A minute's call to US and American Sub-continent,
Europe and Africa and Oceania countries on Bharti's
ILD service IndiaOne would now cost just Rs 24, Bharti
Enterprise Chairman and Managing Director Sunil Mittal
told reporters here.
The new rates proposed by Bharti have been cleared by
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and are
expected to be commercially launched from May 1, he
said.
The peak calling rate for US and American
Sub-continent have come down from Rs 48 per minute
last fiscal to Rs 40 per minute when long distance
telephony services were opened for competition from
April 1, 2002 and now to Rs 24 per minute on Bharti's
IndiaOne network.
Similarly, peak calling rates to Europe and Africa and
Oceania countries have come from Rs 40 per minute in
March 2002 to Rs 31.3 per minute on April 1 and to Rs
24 per minute now proposed by Bharti.
For SAARC countries, the peak calling rates from India
marginally declined from Rs 25.71 per minute in March
2002 to Rs 21.82 per minute from April 1, 2002 upon
opening up of long distance telephony and to Rs 21.18
per minute on Bharti's IndiaOne network, Mittal added.
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:52:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Lawrie D'souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Found this on goabjp.com
post # 3
Comment The website goabjp.com is an excellent
idea to reach more Goans. Do good to the Goans always.
Keep religion and conflicts related to
it aside.
May God and St. Francis Xavier bless you all to
keep Goa safe and may Goa prosper!
Gaspar Almeida
This will be an interesting section for the next few
monts....
Iris : BINDAAS BOL ...
www.goa-world.net
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 13:32:19 +0530
From: Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Alishka - Ashley - Hats off!!!
I wish to raise my hat to Ashley Delaney for the superb way in which he
coordinated, till the end and beyond, the fund collection for Alishka.
The stopping of Fund collection, when the target was reached...
The regular updates on Alishka's condition...
The credit-where-credit is due...
All these go a long way in establishing the credibilty of the appeal.
Ashley, with your sincerity, ability and dedication I am sure you will go a
long way.
Along with Alishka we will keep you too, Ashley, in our prayers.
Keep up the good work
Cecil Pinto
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:54:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: The Goan Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] re: Ancestral remedies & Santosh
Santosh Helekar wrote: [It would be such a pleasure to
read a compilation of Goan folk remedies.]
Dear Santosh,
do you remember a "treatment" for childhood asthma
which as doing its rounds in Goa....i.e. The hapless
child was made to drink blood of a chameleon?
Present information suggests that most of these
children were "cured" of their asthma. Unfortunately
(for Goa), they were converted into Goan Politicians.
Marlon [My favorite home remedy however had to be what
my aunt called "massad". It was a concoction of egg
yolk, sugar and brandy. I guess it is some kind of egg
nog and was supposedly very good for colds, which
strangely enough, I suffered a lot of.]
In Poona nee Pune, a number of Maharashtrian women
would prepare Marlon's concoction aka Egg Filip
because the "doctor said it was good for their
strength & immunity'. Somehow, this secret information
travelled to the pubs of Eire and the UK.
Interesting though; Marlon notes that he "suffered a
lot".....Explains a few things (:-) SMILEY! SMILEY!
Pat de Sousa [His was a breech presentation, and they
didn't want the father to know because he disapproved
of it.]
UMHHH? ? ?
jc for TGF
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