Science and Scientific Reason behind Indian Tradition and Culture - PART-2
Let’s continue with yesterday’s topic, 1. Why do Indian married women apply sindoor on their forehead? The sindhoor was not just applied to indicate married women. As the sindhoor was made of a mixture of lime, turmeric, and mercury. As we all know lime and turmeric are the famous medicines in Ayurveda. But, what about mercury? Mercury helps to decrease blood pressure and also enhanced the sexual drive. Hence widows were not allowed to use sindhoor. Mercury also helped to bring down feelings of stress and strain. For best results sindhoor was used all the way from the forehead right down to the pituitary glands. The seat of all thoughts and emotions. 2. Why do Indian women wear bangles? Whenever we see a girl almost all girls wear bangles as our tradition. It said that the tinkle of a bangle keeps the negativity outside. Ancient Ayurveda states that the bones of women were weaker than those of m...