Hye Home Remedies
#1
Posted 21 March 2004 - 05:21 PM
Anyone else have a similar story ?
Also, anyone with some knowledge about medicine, can this infamous 'nabat' actually have some healing abilities ?
#2
Posted 21 March 2004 - 06:02 PM
its easy cook sugar it melts into big flat pieces of sugar crystal.. and then you break it into tiny pieces with somethign like pliers or such.. its only sugar cant be helpfull unless you need sugar for whatever reason.. lol
but im not very medicinally educated,, all i know is "advil" << headaches.. lol
#3
Posted 21 March 2004 - 07:57 PM
its easy cook sugar it melts into big flat pieces of sugar crystal.. and then you break it into tiny pieces with somethign like pliers or such.. its only sugar cant be helpfull unless you need sugar for whatever reason.. lol
but im not very medicinally educated,, all i know is "advil" << headaches.. lol
Aww ... so others know about nabat. lol I figured it was just suger. Even if it doesn't have any healing qualities it's still good in tea, I lovvvvvvve tea.
Thanks, Gevo.
#4
Posted 21 March 2004 - 08:14 PM
UW... lol
#5
Posted 21 March 2004 - 08:42 PM
#6
Posted 22 March 2004 - 08:50 AM
Before I respond to this in length, somebody please tell me that I am right in assuming that we are talking about "rock candy".
#7
Posted 22 March 2004 - 09:31 AM
UW... lol
I know man, just from hanging around armos all the time I find myself fiending for "te" when I'm home alone.
#8
Posted 22 March 2004 - 11:31 AM
Yes, yes! It's exactly like rock candy - you can even get in different colours!
#9
Posted 22 March 2004 - 11:33 AM
Anyone else have a similar story ?
Also, anyone with some knowledge about medicine, can this infamous 'nabat' actually have some healing abilities ?
Actually if you believe it work, it will have some medecinal value.
#10
Posted 22 March 2004 - 11:58 AM
#11
Posted 22 March 2004 - 12:16 PM
So, then enjoy it.
No "nabat" is not Armenian, it is a generic Persian/Arabic term meaning "plant", i.e. herb
Assuming that we are talking about this... rock candy;
http://www.michigan....52395--,00.html
I had to go in several circles, consult many sources to no avail until I finally succumbed and consulted a very small dictionary edited and printed in Boston over 80 years ago(Yeran) and.... voila!!!
Rock candy=vanashaqar, which sent me into another circle.
Once again, based on this I went searching again. Looked under "shaqar", to no avail. Based on the fact that rock candy is a macro crystalline form of sugar, I even looked up "byureghatsum" (crystallization). No go. I even looked under "zhoghovrdayin bzhshkutyun" where many herbal remedies are listed. Nothing doing!! Finally I went to Sukyasian's "Hye Homanishneri Bararan", and, eureka! Vanashaqar=Sarrnashaqar, Shaqar Vani, sarru shaqar(ice candy).
Just as I, one would also assume that "vanashaqar", specially due to the fact that Sukyasian had chosen to capitalize the V means "Vani shaqar", sugar of/from Van.
No!!
Back to good old Ajarian.
a. Van= as in vanel, to expel.
b. Van= as in the singular of "vanq", i.e residence, convent.
c. Van= byuregh(crystal), armat arandzin angordzadzakan (the root alone is out of use), but we see it in such as "durn vanakni" (door of crystal) and "vanaguyn"=byureghaguyn (crystal colored). Does any one know these usages?) Some may be erroneously tempted to read in the city of Van, but eventually we get to Old Persian "vani/wani" that means "thin/delicate glass".
Edited by Arpa, 22 March 2004 - 03:33 PM.
#12
Posted 22 March 2004 - 10:04 PM
#13
Posted 22 March 2004 - 10:08 PM
#14
Posted 22 March 2004 - 10:17 PM
Anyone else have a similar story ?
Also, anyone with some knowledge about medicine, can this infamous 'nabat' actually have some healing abilities ?
Oh, the nabat actually I have known it as shaqar-nabat, that was the name used.
You are lucky to have had it 'straight'. According to my grandma (God bless her soul) you had to take it with kerosene. I once had cold and sour throath, fever, etc... in a pretty bad shape. All else failed so I had to take shaqar-nabat dipped in aviation kerosene. If you have ever tried kerosene or other oil products you will know that it is quite disgusting. Now add to that sugar and you will know what that is.
I don't know if it helped but I recovered. Thankfully my grandma didn't insist that I take too much of it.
#15
Posted 23 March 2004 - 12:07 AM
We have a aunt who was (in)famous for kerosene treatment. From the stories I've heard she would dip a cotton ball in kerosene and rub it all over your throat.
I'm surprised no one ever puked on her
#16
Posted 23 March 2004 - 12:13 AM
Here is another one: add 2 tablespoons of salt to one shot of vodka, mix well and serve (this is for the flu)
#17
Posted 23 March 2004 - 12:21 AM
Another folk "remedy" that I heard is to drink your own urine (don't remember against what ailment).
#18
Posted 23 March 2004 - 12:34 AM
Strange, but I think most of those remedies demonstrate mind over maters, now what does raw chicken has to do with broken finger?......... xash , now that’s a deferent story
yezan lezu
konyak u kat
txtmor
havi tsert (for growing hair)
and so on
#19
Posted 23 March 2004 - 03:36 PM
#20
Posted 23 March 2004 - 09:55 PM
I'd like to think that and I'm sure there is but I can't help but add hot tea with lemon because that is exatly what I drink when I am sick and then I feel all warm and better.
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