Jagrik name – Shahina Yasmin    

Cohort number – 1 (Bhagowanpur High School)

Task – (FD5SG1) – Identify some natural remedies practiced at your home for common ailments and visit your adolescent friendly health clinic or to meet a doctor to find out the scientific basis for these remedies.

Experience-

The peer listed out some natural remedies practiced at her home for common ailments. She highlighted following points:

1. Tulsi or basil (Ocimum Tenuiflorum) are used for treatment of cold and cough.
2. Turmeric (Curcuma Longa) can be used to prevent infection in open wounds.
3. Bathing with neem leaves helps to treat skin diseases like skin rashes and eruptions.
4. Brahmi or thyme-leafed gratiola (Bacopa Monnieri) used as a memory enhancer, aphrodisiac and a health tonic.
5. Ginger (Zingiber officinale) helps to treat sore throat.

Later she met a doctor with her findings and the doctor approved them that these remedies are actually referred by ayurveda and are safe to be practiced at home.

Learning-

She learnt about natural remedies practiced at home for common ailments. She also learnt that all the mentioned points are safe and are herbal medicines. This task also helped her to build confidence within her to speak with a person other than her known circle.

Challenges –

At first she was suffering from lack of confidence to meet a doctor and to speak on this matter.