If your skin is dried up, split or fissured, apply mustard oil to the affected parts before going to bed every day.

If you have ear-ache, warm 1/4 tsp. mustard oil and pour it in the ear. Thereafter, dip a piece of cotton wool in the oil and plug it in the ear.

For pimples, apply a mixture of sandalwood oil mixed with double the quantity of mustard oil.

Apply a paste made of neem leaves and turmeric mixed in mustard oil on those areas affected by scabies.

During an asthama attack, mustard oil mixed with little camphor should be massaged over the back of the chest. This will loosen up phlegm and ease breathing.

The patient should also inhale steam from the boiling water mixed with Caraway seeds, known as ajwain in vernacular. It will dilute the bronchial passage.