My Mother's Spice Box, by Asha Sharma

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195 remedies·477 pages·82 cards·yours forever

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My Mother's Spice Box, the whole book195 remedies in six parts: drinks, hair, legs and feet, skin, the spice box and everyday troubles. 477 pages, with exact amounts and who should skip each one.
~~$49~~$27
Bonus: Asha's Remedy Cards, all 8282 of my drinks, oils and mixes, one to a page. Print the ones you use and keep them by the stove.
~~$14~~Free
Large-print edition of the whole bookBig type, every remedy starting on a fresh page.
~~$19~~Free
The Spice Box Shopping ListEvery item, what it is called in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and India, and the swap.
$9Free
My Morning GlassA 30-day plan to tick off, one warm glass each morning.
$9Free

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One ordinary year

A shelf of jars from the shop.
Or one spice box.

In my mother's house there was no shelf of creams and capsules. There was a steel spice box, a bottle of coconut oil and a bottle of mustard oil. When I see what people buy today for their hair, their feet and their mornings, I add it up.

The shop way

Bought for hair, feet and skin, one year

Hair serum and hair growth oils$264
Foot cream, heel balm and night cream$456
Turmeric capsules and detox teas$408

A year, about$1,128

My mother's way

The book's way, one year

Coconut oil and mustard oil$132
Methi, jeera, ajwain, fennel and cloves$84
Ginger, lemons, garlic, besan and yogurt$120

A year, about$336

Typical prices for twelve months; yours depend on your country and your shop. Difference, with the book: about $790 a year.

But the money is the smallest part. What this book gives you is ten quiet minutes each morning that you do for yourself, the way our mothers did.

What's inside

What each part does for you.

Every one of the 195 remedies gives you exact amounts, a swap for your country, how long it keeps and when you may notice something. Who should skip it sits right beside it.

Part One · Drinks

Drinks and Morning Waters

The glass before breakfast, the cup at night, and the drinks for hot days and tired legs.

43 remedies

The six morning waters: methi, jeera, ajwain, ginger, cinnamon, clove
Golden milk with black pepper, dry ginger milk, Kashmiri kahwa
Kanji, chaas and jaljeera from a Punjabi kitchen
Nimbu pani and barley water for hot days
Beet, pomegranate and hibiscus, and who should skip them
Clove water and a pinch of nutmeg in milk before sleep

Part Two · Hair

Hair after 50

Sunday oil, honest verdicts on the famous oils, and grey hair coloured the old way.

38 remedies

Champi: the Sunday oiling, with the oil warmed safely
Shampoo on dry oiled hair first, and the rules after 40
Onion oil, the methi rinse, rice water, curry leaf oil
Clove, rosemary and castor oil, each with an honest verdict
Henna, the indigo two-step, coffee and tea for grey hair
A dry or itchy scalp, thin brows and lashes

Part Three · Legs and feet

Legs, Feet and Joints

What goes on your feet at night, warm oils for stiff knees, and heavy legs in the evening.

33 remedies

Mustard oil on the feet before bed, never garlic in your socks
Castor oil before sleep: the soles, the knees, the pack
Ginger oil, the rock salt potli and the warm towel
Heavy, tired legs and swollen ankles in the evening
Cold feet, cold hands and the hot water bottle, safely
Cracked heels, hard skin and the soak for thick nails

Part Four · Skin

Skin and Face

Besan and haldi, dry winter skin, spots, the eyes, and the hair women do not talk about.

27 remedies

The besan, haldi and curd ubtan, and getting the yellow off
Malai, almond oil, glycerin and rose water for winter skin
Age spots: what fades them a little, what to show a doctor
Puffy mornings and dark circles
Facial hair for women after 50
Hands and nails that wash a thousand dishes

Part Five · The spice box

The Spice Box

One spice at a time, everything my mother did with it, and the jars on her shelf.

37 remedies

Methi, cloves, ginger, garlic and fennel, one chapter each
Turmeric with black pepper, and why the pepper goes in
Ajwain, Ceylon cinnamon, kalonji and amla
How to tell soft Ceylon cinnamon from hard cassia
Ginger in honey and garlic in vinegar, kept safely
Soaked almonds and soaked raisins

Part Six · Everyday troubles

Small Everyday Troubles

A cough, a heavy stomach, a sore tooth on a Sunday.

17 remedies

The salt water gargle, honey and ginger, steam the safe way
Tulsi and ginger kadha
When a cough needs a doctor
Jeera, buttermilk and ginger for a heavy stomach
Isabgol and soaked figs, with the full glass of water
Clove on a sore tooth until the dentist, and oil pulling

Bonus · free with the set

Asha's Remedy Cards

82 of my drinks, oils and mixes, one to a page: the six morning waters, golden milk, the hair oils, the foot rubs and the ubtan. Print them, and they are on the cupboard door next to the kettle.

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The Shopping List and My Morning Glass

Every item in the book with its name in your country and the swap, and a 30-day plan to tick off, one warm glass each morning.

One remedy from each part, to try this week

Part One

Simmer the ginger, do not steep it

Slice an inch of ginger (2.5 cm) thin, simmer it with a lid in 1 1/2 cups (375 ml) of water for 15 minutes, and strain. Warm hands in about 20 minutes. On a blood thinner, ask first.

Part Two

Shampoo on dry oiled hair first

After the Sunday oil, do not wet your hair. Work a teaspoon of shampoo into the oily scalp first, then add the water. The oil comes out with less rubbing.

Part Three

Warm mustard oil on the feet

Warm a tablespoon (15 ml) of mustard oil in a bowl of hot water, never the microwave. Rub it into each foot for 5 minutes, heels first, then old socks. Test it on your wrist first.

Part Six

The salt water gargle

Half a teaspoon (3 g) of salt in a glass of warm water. Gargle, spit, repeat until the glass is empty. A raw throat feels softer straight away. Not for children.

195 remedies like these, in one book.

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Asha with a glass of warm water at her kitchen window

Asha laughing in her garden with a basket of fresh ginger, turmeric and curry leaves

About Asha

“My mother never measured anything. I measured every spoon, so you can do it the way she did.”

I grew up in Punjab. My mother kept a round steel spice box next to the stove, and a small steel pot of water on the back burner from morning to night.

On Sunday mornings she warmed coconut oil in a bowl of hot water and oiled our hair. In winter she rubbed mustard oil on our feet before bed. She never wrote any of it down. When I did, I measured every spoon and checked every remedy against what doctors and health services say today. Where an old remedy does not mix with a medicine, I say so.

Where a remedy does nothing, I say that too.

I wrote it for my family, and for all of you who write to me under my videos. If it makes your mornings a little warmer, I will be glad.

If you do one thing this week, put a glass of water next to the kettle tonight. Drink it tomorrow, before your tea.

Asha

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Plain answers to fair questions

Is a paper book coming in the mail?

No, beta. It is a PDF, nothing ships. It is on your phone about thirty seconds after you pay. Print any page you want at home.

I am not good with computers.

You do not need to be. You press one button and the book opens. No account, no password. Lose it? Write to me and I send it again.

Is this a subscription? Will you charge my card again?

No. You pay one time. No membership, no monthly bill, no free trial.

I take pills for blood pressure, sugar or to thin the blood.

Then this book is for you. Every remedy says who should skip it. At the back, every remedy is listed by medicine. Show your doctor before you start.

Do these remedies really work?

I tell you honestly, for every single one. Each remedy says if it works, helps a little, is only tradition, or should not be done at all. This is kitchen tradition, not medicine, and where you need a doctor, the page says so.

Is this just tips I could find free online?

No. Online you get a hundred voices, and half are wrong. Here it is all in one place, in order, with the exact amounts. And you cannot hold a video with wet hands in the kitchen.

I do not live in America. Will I find the things?

Yes. Every amount is in spoons and in grams. If something is hard to find, the swap is on the same line.

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My mother’s whole spice box, in your hands, for $27.

A shelf of jars from the shop.
Or one spice box.