Agnijith is the healing and soothing balm given by Dr. Parameswaran Nair to people suffering from the agony of burns. Dr. C.P Parameswaran Nair of Kudallur Mulamkaav is indeed gifted with this divine power of healing and curing burns. The secret of the herb is known only to Dr. Parameswaran Nair.
There is an interesting story behind this herbal cure. The secret of the herb was handed to him by his uncle who had got the secret from a sanyasin.
Parameswaran Nair first tried the balm while living with a physician to learn medicine in the gurukula tradition. The patient was a three-year-old girl who had suffered extensive burns when she fell into a vessel in which rice gruel was being cooked. All the herbal cures known to local physicians proved ineffective. So he reluctantly asked his teacher if he could try a medicine which he had learnt from his uncle.
To people in Kudallur, there is nothing more effective than his balm for burns. Experience has taught them that it is can cure deep burns, remove old scars and restore the skin to its original form. He learned to make the balm from one of his uncles who was not a physician. The villagers believed that he got the formula from a sanyasin (nomadic scholar). On his deathbed, he passed on the secret formula to his nephew.
The curative power of the herbal balm is now an accepted fact in his village. So much so that whenever somebody suffers a burn, the victim is rushed not to the nearest doctor, but to Parameswaran Nair's residence.
MEDICINE HISTORY
Parameswaran Nair first tried the balm while living
with a physician to learn medicine in the gurukula tradition. The
patient was a three-year-old girl who had suffered extensive burns
when she fell into a vessel in which rice gruel was being cooked.
All the herbal cures known to local physicians proved ineffective.
So he reluctantly asked his teacher if he could try a medicine which
he had learnt from his uncle.
The curative powder of the balm is now
an accepted fact in his village. So much so that whenever somebody
suffers a burn, the victim is rushed, not to the nearest doctor,
but to Parameswaran Nair's residence.
Recently six persons in the village, engaged in an anti-liquor campaign, set fire to cans of country liquor which they had seized. The cans exploded, splattering the boiling liquor on those near by. Some suffered burns on their faces, others on their hand and legs and most of them all over their body. A doctor who examined them first advised they be rushed to Kozhikode Medical College Hospital as the injuries were serious. But instead they went to Parameswaran Nair's residence.
Though the medicine is most effective when it is applied within three days of the accident (fresh burns), there have been instances of even ten-year old burn scars fading with the use of the balm.
The medicine also heals chicken pox scars, operation scars, diabetic ulcers, diabetic non healing wounds and skin problems like sunburn, skin irritation, skin cuts, skin dryness and skin diseases like eczema, leukoderma (vitiligo) and psoriasis.