Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 2. 1937
Letter ID: 2033
Sri Aurobindo — Nirodbaran Talukdar
August 30, 1937
My store seems run down! No words, images or ideas, all gone!1
Well, if a run-down store can produce a poem like that, it is a miraculous run-down store...
Please give an all-round poking, will you?
All right – I shall try to give the all-round poke.
It seems, according to Ayurveda and common Indian belief, 
that onions fried in ghee are almost a specific for piles and an admirable laxative. They also have a cooling effect. I know that they make the whole body damn hot, but their heat-properties have a stimulating effect. Any views, popular or personal, on this remedy?
Mother does not know that they are laxative or cooling – it has an energising effect. Perhaps it is effective for tamasic people – it is doubtful if it helps piles. It is taken like that largely in Japan, but it is not supposed there to cure piles.
1 “Your Face”, Sun-Blossoms, p. 2.