Posted by: default061 January 20, 2011
Nepali Myths: Confirmed or Busted?
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Hot and spicy items should be avoided during common cold- Actually we need vitamin C to recover early from common cold. And red chilli has it.
About the first fact,  salt is considered to be a big trigger for high blood pressure. The chances of getting stroke during big stress is high coz of high BP. that is one of the reason we are supposed to avoid salt.

it is bad omen to sneeze when someone is leaving house- this is considered when some one is travelling long distance. Possible reason could be- common cold is airborne. It can transfer with the droplets when you sneeze. And definitely you dont wanna get high fever and heahache on the middle of your journey.

never heard of the last one, "memorizig is the best way" but what I heard was "ghokantey bidhya ra dhawantey kheti" bata kehi advantage hudaina .

Seeing empty vessels is not a good sign- it can possibly indicate that the village is suffering from scarcity of water /food. In that case, instead of leaving house, you may wanna go out to search water. (just random guess)

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