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Ingredients: Fresh mint (Pudina) leaves, fresh lemon juice, sugar/palm jaggery, black salt/pink salt, water. Preparation: Ideally grind the mint leaves manually using a mortar and pestle. Filter out the juice through a strainer/sieve. Add water and then add lemon juice, sugar/palm jaggery, black salt/pink salt to taste. Stir and Serve fresh. Uses: Digestive, cooling, mild laxative, relieves abdominal distention.

Eranda taila (Castor oil) can be mixed with wheat flour while making  chapati dough. Consumption of chapati/fulka roti  made from this dough helps in aama pachana and Agni deepana . It is a simple, effective and inexpensive method.

Using Blow pens for painting purposes involves blowing through the rear end of color pens. It requires one to take a deep breath and then forcefully breathe out through the mouth. Repeatedly doing this while painting has multiple benefits as follows: 1. Creative art relaxes the mind.  2. Deep inspiration and expiration relax the body, reduce anxiety, improve focus, and create a rhythm in breathing.  3. Playing activities using the mouth improves oral motor skills.  A good example of play and health going hand in hand. Reference: 1. Newham Children’s Occupational Therapy, Foundation pack, NHS East London, NHS Foundation Trust [ URL ]. 2. Blow pen product examples [ URL ].

What it is Internal speech typically made while reading or imagination is called Subvocalization (~ silent speech). It is a natural process while reading or imagination and provides the sound of the word as it is read [1, 2, 21]. It helps the mind access the meaning of the content while reading. It facilitates comprehension and memory-making while potentially reducing cognitive burden [3]. Edfelt believed that it is a developmental activity that reinforces learning and should not be disrupted during development.  Subvocalization is the only mental activity that generates considerable but attenuated movement in the larynx [2]. It occurs through undetectable (to the reader) and minuscule movements of the larynx and other muscles involved in Speech articulation [3]. It involves bilateral activation in predominantly the left frontal lobe [5]. Role of Subvocalization in:   A. Memory Processes: 1. Short-term memory formation through Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch's Phonolo...