FICUS RELIGIOSA
description & usage
This sacred peepul is a large tree found wild, and cultivated all over India by the Hindus. The leaf is heart in size. The seeds are very tiny.
Uses:
Hiccup and stop vomiting sensation. Eczema, Leprosy, Rheumatism.
How to Use:
Seeds are prescribed in the form of eletuary and powder. Bark is useful in gonorrhoea and Vata Rakta, ulcers, various skin diseases and scabies in infusion or decoction with a little honey. Water in which the freshly burnt ashes of the bark have been steeped is said to cure obstinate cases of hiccup and stop vomiting sensation. Milk boiled with dried bark is a good aphrodisiac.
Fruit dried and powdered and taken in water for 14 days removes asthma, and promotes fruitfulness in women. Tender shoots boiled in milk and administered together woth a sufficient quantity of sugar added to taste make a very nutritious and cooling morning drink. Milky juice applied is useful in cracked feet and cracked skin. Rubbed with honey the powder is applied to aphthous sores of children. Leaves are a food for silkworms.
Parts Used:
Seed
Taste:
Astringent
Action:
Laxative, cooling, astringent
Uses:
Hiccup and stop vomiting sensation. Eczema, Leprosy, Rheumatism.
How to Use:
Seeds are prescribed in the form of eletuary and powder. Bark is useful in gonorrhoea and Vata Rakta, ulcers, various skin diseases and scabies in infusion or decoction with a little honey. Water in which the freshly burnt ashes of the bark have been steeped is said to cure obstinate cases of hiccup and stop vomiting sensation. Milk boiled with dried bark is a good aphrodisiac.
Fruit dried and powdered and taken in water for 14 days removes asthma, and promotes fruitfulness in women. Tender shoots boiled in milk and administered together woth a sufficient quantity of sugar added to taste make a very nutritious and cooling morning drink. Milky juice applied is useful in cracked feet and cracked skin. Rubbed with honey the powder is applied to aphthous sores of children. Leaves are a food for silkworms.
Parts Used:
Seed
Taste:
Astringent
Action:
Laxative, cooling, astringent