INDIGOFERA TINCTORIA
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OTHER NAMESTamil: Neelum ; Nilam ; Aviri ; Avari
English: True Indigo ; Dyer's Indigo Telugu: Neeli Malayalam: Amari ; Avari Kannada: Neeli Marathi: Nili Hindi: Nil Sanskrit: Neela ; Neelinee ; Nilika |
description & usage
This small erect shrub is cultivated extensively in Northern India, especially in Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Sind, Oudh, Southern India, and Bombay.
Uses:
Nervous affections, headache, asthma, whooping cough, ulcers.
How to Use:
Leaf Juice is mixed with honey and given in enlargement of the liver and spleen, epilepsy and other nervous affections. In hydrophobia two ounces of fresh juice with an equal quantity of milk is given in the morning for 3 days, as a prophylatic measures ; it might produce slight headache and nothing beyond that. Juice is also given in asthma, whooping cough, palpitation of the heart, in some lung diseases and kidney complaints as in dropsy. Juice of the young branches mixed with honey is a useful application for aphthae of the mouth in children. Powdered indigo also is used for sprinkling on ulcers.
Parts Used:
Leaves, roots
Taste:
Bitterness
Action:
Germicide, anti-periodic, stimulant
Uses:
Nervous affections, headache, asthma, whooping cough, ulcers.
How to Use:
Leaf Juice is mixed with honey and given in enlargement of the liver and spleen, epilepsy and other nervous affections. In hydrophobia two ounces of fresh juice with an equal quantity of milk is given in the morning for 3 days, as a prophylatic measures ; it might produce slight headache and nothing beyond that. Juice is also given in asthma, whooping cough, palpitation of the heart, in some lung diseases and kidney complaints as in dropsy. Juice of the young branches mixed with honey is a useful application for aphthae of the mouth in children. Powdered indigo also is used for sprinkling on ulcers.
Parts Used:
Leaves, roots
Taste:
Bitterness
Action:
Germicide, anti-periodic, stimulant
