Our elders have done us many favors. History is witness that they have preserved many wise methods for us, which if we use today, can do wonders. But unfortunately, we have left behind all the ways and methods of our ancestors. Even today, when we see an elderly man or woman around us who is over 100 years old, we are surprised and say that they have lived such a good life without medicine that perhaps no one can live like that today. We can’t deny the fact that our elders’ cures were not just about medicine; they were based on years of experience, close observation of nature, and deep faith in Allah’s healing power.

Although we are not ready to accept this fact today, one thing is clear that the treatment methods of our elders, locally termed as Kashir Zamad, were very effective. And what made their methods special was that they were simple, affordable, and had no side effects. Nowadays there is hardly any house where no one takes medicine. It may not be wrong to say that in every house, more money is spent on medicine than on food items. But do we know that medicine harms the body more than food? Our elders used food as medicine, and today in its place we only take medicine.

In our elders’ time when anyone would feel his stomach upset, they would take Te’ethe Peyale, a cup of Tu’eoth to relax their stomach. Tu’eoth was boiled Nun Chai without milk. Today, we feel........

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