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Pomegranate / Anar
The other names are Punica
granatum, Lythraceae, Dadima.
The part used are fruit,
rootbark, fruit husk. It is sweet, bitter, astringent, neutral.
It has tannin, inulin,
mannitol, malic acid, calcium oxalate, pelletierine, and isoquerctrin. It has
anthelmintic and astringent properties.
The fruit is considered a
blood tonic. The juice is good for promoting digestion and all parts have
stomachic properties, which can be augmented with small amount of cloves. The
fresh juice has stronger tonic properties, particularly for blood and for
pitta. I treats hiccoughs, diarrhea due to cold and deficiency, dysentery and
kills and expels tapeworm and round worms. In a douche with root rind powder,
it treats leucorrhoea, in gargle, throat irritation and mouth sores. The root
bark is considered the superior anthelmintic, the peel a safer astringent.
Turmeric
/ Haldi
The other names are
Curcuma longa, Zingiberaceae, Haridra.
The parts used are
rhizome. It is bitter, pungent, heating, and astringent.
As essential oil; resin,
curcumin, the yellow colouring matter; turmeric oil or turmerol. Turmeric / oil
is a thick yellow viscid oil. The curry power owes its aromatic taste and smell
to this oil. It is aromatic stimulant, cholagogue, analgesic, astringent,
antiseptic, emmenagogue.
It relieves menstrual
pains and helps reduce uterine tumours. It regulates the menses, aids
digestion, dissolves gallstones, decongests the liver, may be combined with
barberry. As tonic and aromatic; given in jaundice and in chronic bronchitis.
When mixed with tila tela it is applied to the whole body to prevent skin
eruptions. With kali chuna, powder of it is applied to bruises, sprains,
contused wounds, black eye, with relief. A paste of it stops bleeding from
leech bites.
A decoction of it is used
as a cooling lotion in conjunctivitis, boiled in milk, a sweetened with jiggery
(shaker), turmeric is a popular remedy for cold. Fumes of burning turmeric
passed into the nostrils relieve coryza. Internally halada is given in
affections of the liver and jaundice. On account of its yellow colour, cloth
dipped in its paste is employed as an eye-shade. It is used in urinary
diseases. And with Sajikhara as an internal application to reduce indolent
swelling. Used externally or internally, turmeric promotes healing in cases of
injury or trauma. Turmeric promotes proper metabolism in the body correcting
both excesses and deficiencies. It helps in the digestion of protein. A
condiment for cooking, it is the main ingredient in curry. It is a tonic for
skin, taken internally as a milk decoction.
Ajwan
/ Wild celery seeds
The other names are Apium
graveolens, Umbelliferae, Ajamoda.
It is pungent and heating.
The part used are seeds. It is stimulant, expectorant, carminative,
antispasmodic, diuretic. Ajwan is a powerful decongestant for both the
respiratory and digestive tracts. It also promotes kidney function and
energizes the nerves. It relieves intestinal spasms and vitalizes prana and
vata.
An aromatic volatile oil
and a crystalline substance which collects on the surface of the distilled
water. This stearoptin, is know under the Hindustani name as Ajoliwankaphul,
(Flowers of Ajowan) it is identical with English thymol contained in thymus
vulgaris.
Diffusible stimulant,
stomachic carminative, and antiseptic. The fruit combines the powerful
stimulant qualities of capsicum, the bitter property of chiretta and
antispasmodic virtues of asafetida and is of great service in cholera. As an
antiseptic it removes offensive smell from foul ulcers. As a stomachic it
increases the flow of saliva, augments eructations, heart burns etc. As an
antispasmodic it is given in flatulency, colicky pains, hysteria, stoppage of
urine and timpanists. In bronchitis with profuse expectoration it lessens the
sputum. A poultice of crushed fruits is applied to painful rheumatic joints, and
fomentation of hot seeds to the chest in bronchitis, asthma and cold hands and
feet in cholera, fainting and syncope. Ajowan phula is antiseptic and
germicide. With camphor and other antispasmodics it is given in cholera, diarrhea,
internal colic spasm of stomach, asthma and dysmenorrhoea. The oil is applied
as stimulant, embrocating for the relief of pain in the limbs and rheumatism
and also given in internally for colic tympanitis. Aqua ptvchotis is used to
disguise the taste of nauseous drugs.
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