CHAPTER 7 Black Rose I continued to read, ‘In Agasthyakoodam, there are some curly-haired people who has won the time. Their saliva is a medicine for the melting skin. If applied like a Sandalwood paste.’ there I stopped and started thinking. I assumed that what Kali Baba was referring to as a curly haired person is a siddha, who used to live in the forests. What is meant by, ‘Their saliva is a medicine for melting skin.’ I searched and researched. Melting skin means Hansen's disease. May be what he meant to say was their saliva is a medicine for