"Asafoetida" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... efforts are directed. A sigri or stove is kept alight under the bed, and in this the seeds of ajwain or coriander are burnt. The mother eats the seeds, and the child is waved over the stove in the smoke of the burning ajwain. Raw asafoetida is put in the woman's ears wrapped in cotton-wool, and she eats a little half-cooked. A freshly-dried piece of cowdung is also picked up from the ground and half-burnt and put in water, and some of this water ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala • R.V. Russell |
