Ward off evil eyes with salt , pepper and dry red chillies? is it a myth?

Its is customary to use common salt, pepper and red chilly to ward off evil eyes. This is normally done for children mostly for kids. In south India it is common . After few days from birth, this is followed. The science behind it speaks of the chemistry our ancestors knew. Amazing!

Common salt , pepper and chilli take up the bacteria and virus surrounding a person( lets say when your mother uses these in her closed fist and does the suthi podufying ( excuse my language- so that  bloggers understand) with the intention of warding off all evil eyes, all virus, bacteria and other germs are taken up in this medium and this prevents infection. This is also the principle involved in Reiki treatment where the surrounding air is cleansed to cure a disease. To expose our body surroundings to more salt, it was made mandatory to use salt , pepper etc taken around 3 times or nine times both clockwise and anticlockwise direction and to discard without turning back !. The salt does not provide the optimal environment for the microbes to grow. In case of child birth, the new born is visited by many people relatives, neighbours and many well wishers . Increase in number of visitors over a closed area ( since the new born is confined to a closed space) increases microbial concentration in the room . Hence this system was adopted wherein salt removes microbes in the air in the closed space. 

so in the case , when a kid achieves something, a mother is excited and does this suthi poduthal- whenever there is an achievement, people have the habit of congratulating, shaking hands etc which causes more transfer of microbes. HEnce be young or old, using salt to ward off this microbes slowly became warding off evil eyes. 

IF your kid or yourself suffer from an infection be it a fever, common cold or any other pain, using a handful of salt and taking it all over your body from top to bottom and all over the body- clockwise and anticlockwise for atleast 2 minutes will ease you from pain. THis salt should immediately be washed off.