WITHANIA SOMNIFERA
description & usage
This shrub is common in Bombay and Western India, occasionally met with in Bengal.
Uses:
Root and bitter leaves are used as a hypnotic in alcoholism and emphysamatous dyspnoea. Leaves are used as an anthelmintic and as an application to carbuncles.
How to Use:
Root is used in doses of about 30 grains in consumption, emaciation of children, senile debility, rheumatism, in all cases of general debility, nervous exhaustion, brain-fag, loss of memory, loss of muscular energy and spermatorrhoea. Powder of the root mixed with ghee and honey in equal parts is recommended for impotence or seminal debility ; it is to be taken in the evening, followed by milk. For skin diseases Ashwagandha powder well mixed in oil is applied to the skin. Compound decoction of Ashwagandha 3, Ipomoea root 2, long pepper 4 and honey 5 parts is also recommended in doses of 1/2 to 1 ounce in cow's milk for consumption, seminal debility, and to help the nutrition of weak children. The drug is also used in scorpion-sting.
Parts Used:
Roots, leaves
Taste:
Bitterness
Action:
Tonic, alterative, aphrodisiac
Uses:
Root and bitter leaves are used as a hypnotic in alcoholism and emphysamatous dyspnoea. Leaves are used as an anthelmintic and as an application to carbuncles.
How to Use:
Root is used in doses of about 30 grains in consumption, emaciation of children, senile debility, rheumatism, in all cases of general debility, nervous exhaustion, brain-fag, loss of memory, loss of muscular energy and spermatorrhoea. Powder of the root mixed with ghee and honey in equal parts is recommended for impotence or seminal debility ; it is to be taken in the evening, followed by milk. For skin diseases Ashwagandha powder well mixed in oil is applied to the skin. Compound decoction of Ashwagandha 3, Ipomoea root 2, long pepper 4 and honey 5 parts is also recommended in doses of 1/2 to 1 ounce in cow's milk for consumption, seminal debility, and to help the nutrition of weak children. The drug is also used in scorpion-sting.
Parts Used:
Roots, leaves
Taste:
Bitterness
Action:
Tonic, alterative, aphrodisiac