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Medicinal Plants

ALOE BARBADENSIS This plant with medicinal properties is used as a remedy for pain at the back of head, burning sensation and redness in the eyes, wet cough, constipation, cuts and chronic wounds, menstrual disorders. Pain at the back of head: Dry and powder the leaf pulp and mix with equal quantity of turmeric powder. Dissolve in ¼ cup of water and drink. Sore eyes: Slit its leaf lengthwise and expose pulp. Place the leaf on each eye with the pulp touching the eyes and bandage at night for 3 days. Wet cough: Fry 2 tsp of the leaf pulp in ½ tsp of ghee. Eat with a little sugar in the morning, noon and night for 3 days. Constipation: Dry the leaf pulp, powder and add equal quantity of turmeric powder. Dissolve in ¼ cup of water and drink for 3 to 4 days. Cuts & Wounds: Take the pulp by slitting open the leaf and apply over the wound twice daily till it heals. Painful menstruation: Crush the leaf pulp, take 6 tsp of the extracted juice thrice daily with honey for 10 days.   PIPER LONGUM Great relief in Headaches, wet cough and indigestion. Powder 15 gms. Each of Piper nigrum (fruits), Piper longum (fruits) and Zingiber officinale and mix 1 tsp of powder taken with honey 3 times a day for 3 to 4 days relieves headaches. Powder 2 gms. Each of fruits of Piper longum and Zingiber officinale and mix with sufficient quantity of honey. Take 4-5 times daily to get relieved from wet cough. Powder equal quantities of dry seeds of Embelia ribes, dry fruits of piper longum and dry rhizome of zingiber officinale and take 1 tsp of powder with hot water or butter milk half an hour before food twice daily for 7 days.   TERMINALIA CHEBULA The bark of this plant is used when there is pain at the back of the head.  Used as a remedy for eye discharge/sore eyes, acidity, constipation, indigestion, as Liver tonics. Pain at the back of head: Powder the fruit bark and mix   1 tsp powder with hot water or hot milk at bedtime.   Sore eyes: Dry and powder 15 gms each of fruit covers of this with terninalia belerica and embilica officinalis.  Boil 1 tsp in 1 cup of water and reduce to half.  Filter solution with clean and fine cloth.  Swab eyes with cotton dipped in this filtered solution from nose side outwards 5 to 6 times a day till cured.   Acidity: Dry and powder 15 gms each of the fruit covers of this, Terminalia belerica and Embilica officinalis and take 1 tsp of this powder with honey thrice daily.   Constipation:Make decoction of the fruit covers and take 1 cup of it with jaggery at bedtime for a week.   Indigestion: Remove seed and crush the fruit bark and chew the bark with jaggery 5 minutes before food for 4 days.   Liver  Tonics:Crush fruit bark of this plant and take 1 tsp of powder at bedtime in hot water for 7 to 21 days.     PHYLLANTHUS AMARUS Liver Tonic: Make paste of the whole plant and take in the size of a gooseberry fruit with ½ cup of milk for 7 to 21 days.   TINOSPORA CORDIFOLIA Acidity:  Crush stems of this plant to extract juice.  Take 1 tsp of the juice three times a day with honey  for 7 days. Breast Milk Purifier:Make decoction with the stem of this plant and take ½ cup of the same in the morning and evening for 7-14 days.   Strength Promoter:  The above decoction  to be taken for 7-21 days is a strength promoter.   Liver tonic:Make decoction with stem of this plant and take one cup of the same twice a day for 7 to 21 days.   Fever with common cold: Remove bark from the stem and cut 8’ long stem to make decoction.  Take 1 cup of decoction 3 times a day for 3 days.