VITEX NEGUNDO
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OTHER NAMESTamil: Chinduvaram ; Notchi
English: Five-leaved Chaste Tree Telugu: Sindhuvaruma ; Tellavavili Malayalam: Indrani Kannada: Bile-nekki Marathi: Nirgunda Hindi: Sambhalu ; Nirgandi Sanskrit:Sephalika ; Nirgundi |
description & usage
Bengal, Southern India and Burma.
Uses:
Leaves are very efficacious in dispelling inflammatory swellings of the joints from acute rheumatism and of the testes from suppressed gonorrhoea or gonorrhoeal epididymitis and orchitis; also over sprained, limbs, contusions, leech bites, etc.,
How to Use:
Fresh leaves are put into an earthen pot, heated over a fire and applied as hot as can be borne without pain; or the leaves bruised are applied as poultice to the affected part. Dried leaves when smoked are also said to relieve catarrh and headache. Juice of the leaves removes foetid discharges and worms from ulcers. An oil prepared with the juice is applied to sinuses and scrofulous sores. Rheumatic patients will be benefitted by baths of nirgundi leaves boiled in water.
Juice in 1/2 tola doses with ghee and black-pepper is also given and in spleen enlargement two tolas of the juice with two tolas of cow's urine are given every morning. Powdered root is prescribed for piles as a demulcent for dysentery. Fruit is prescribed in powder, electuary and decoction. Seeds form a cooling medicine for cutaneous diseases and leprosy. Flowers and stalks reduced to powder are administered in cases of discharge of blood from the stomach and bowels. Leaves and bark are used in remedies for scorpion sting.
Parts Used:
Leaves, flowers, root, bark
Taste:
Bitterness, pungency
Action:
Anti -parasitic, alterative, tonic, expectorant
Uses:
Leaves are very efficacious in dispelling inflammatory swellings of the joints from acute rheumatism and of the testes from suppressed gonorrhoea or gonorrhoeal epididymitis and orchitis; also over sprained, limbs, contusions, leech bites, etc.,
How to Use:
Fresh leaves are put into an earthen pot, heated over a fire and applied as hot as can be borne without pain; or the leaves bruised are applied as poultice to the affected part. Dried leaves when smoked are also said to relieve catarrh and headache. Juice of the leaves removes foetid discharges and worms from ulcers. An oil prepared with the juice is applied to sinuses and scrofulous sores. Rheumatic patients will be benefitted by baths of nirgundi leaves boiled in water.
Juice in 1/2 tola doses with ghee and black-pepper is also given and in spleen enlargement two tolas of the juice with two tolas of cow's urine are given every morning. Powdered root is prescribed for piles as a demulcent for dysentery. Fruit is prescribed in powder, electuary and decoction. Seeds form a cooling medicine for cutaneous diseases and leprosy. Flowers and stalks reduced to powder are administered in cases of discharge of blood from the stomach and bowels. Leaves and bark are used in remedies for scorpion sting.
Parts Used:
Leaves, flowers, root, bark
Taste:
Bitterness, pungency
Action:
Anti -parasitic, alterative, tonic, expectorant
