ANCIENT VEDIC WISDOM IN DISEASE PREVENTION - CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 7

Continued From: https://thoughtsonsanathanadharma.blogspot.com/2020/03/ancient-vedic-wisdom-in-disease_67.html

Proper cleaning procedures must be followed when using traditional cookware.  Each type of metal has a particular cleaning agent recommended by our ancestors.  For example, sugar is used to clean gold. Tamarind is generally used to clean bronze and copper vessels. There is no danger in using traditional cookware as long as proper care is taken to remove tarnish from the traditional vessels. If unsure, use tin vessels and soft stone vessels for cooking food and transfer the cooked food into silver/copper serving bowls. 

When time permits, change the chrome hardware in your homes to brass hardware. Changing doorknobs, faucet handles and other commonly touched hardware to brass will help minimize the spread of germs. A study even found that brass doorknobs sanitized itself within 15 minutes!

Stay safe by eating only home-cooked meals. Keep in mind that the spoons and plates at restaurants have been used by someone else. Most restaurants wash dishes by hand even when they have access to an electric dishwasher. Due to the high volume of visitors at restaurants, most restaurants cannot keep up with sanitizing procedures.  Not only during the pandemic, but at all times one should develop the habit of eating only at home.

Get into the habit of offering food to Perumal during thiruvaradhanam. Even if there are any defects in the food, when we pray to Perumal, He blesses the food and makes it wholesome. As this is not the case at restaurants, they should be avoided at all times.

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