I have always been big on home remedies or totkas as we Pakistanis refer to it generally. All my life I have always
listened carefully to the other generation when they discuss their remedies or when they advise one another on
problems being discussed.
To the tips I picked up all these years I added my own experiments to see how I could customize solutions to my end
and my life is full of such paraphernalia.
One of the oldest remedies I have been using from my mid-teens is the use of Phitkari better known as Alum in
English. This is a must have in my storage cabinet and my washroom at all times. I am sharing the uses that we can
put this miracle to below for my readers
The easiest way to use Phitkari is to make it into a liquid form.
Take a bottle (preferably pump top. You can recycle an old
shampoo or hand wash bottle by soaking it overnight in
detergent or dish-washing-soap and wash and air dry it the next
day)
Add water to it preferably mineral or boiled and add Phitkari
chunks to it. I break it up with a hammer before mixing as
usually the chunks are bigger than the mouth of the bottle.
Let it rest overnight and your Phitkari solution is ready. You
will see that for weeks after there are chunks of Phitkari in the
water. This should not be a problem as the stronger the
Phitkari water the more effective it is.
