| Infusion: Pour a cup of boiling water
onto l-2 teaspoonfuls of the dried herb and leave to infuse
for l0-l5 minutes. This should be drunk hot three times a day.
When feverish it should be drunk hourly.
Tincture: take 2-4ml of the tincture three times a day.For
Renal Dropsies
Make a decoction by adding 2 oz. of the plant to 1.5 pints
of water. Boil for 20 - 30 minutes. Strain. This is a good
diuretic. Useful for renal dropsies.
Dose: one to two ounces of the mixture two or three times
daily.
For stomach ache and bowel complaints, piles, boils, skin
eruptions etc.
Use the leaf juice.
For diarrhea and dysentery
A decoction of powdered leaves with honey or sugar candy
is useful in the early stages of diarrhea and dysentery.
For Fevers
Grind fresh leaves into a paste. Mix it with jaggery or black
pepper and garlic. Form it into pills. This is a good antiperiodic
especially in quartan fevers.
For dropsies such as ascites, anasarca
Mix the ashes from the roots of the herb with water and jaggery.
This is said to cure dropsies such as ascites, anasarca etc.
For Cough
A pinch of the root-powder with a pinch of pepper powder
and honey is a remedy for cough.
For bites of poisonous insects, wasps, bees etc
Rub the leaves into a paste with water. Apply this into the
affected area.
Grind the flowering spikes of the seeds into a paste with
water. Apply externally to the affected region for bites of
poisonous snakes and reptiles.
For syphilitic sores
Extract fresh juice from the leaves. Thicken the juice by
evaporating by exposing to the sun. Mix it with a little opium.
Apply to primary syphilitic sores.
Miscellaneous
Payasam or Kheer made of seeds in milk is a good remedy for
brain diseases.
An Infusion of the root is a mild astringent useful in bowel
complaints.
Seeds are used as an expectorant, or mixed with rice water
for bleeding hemorrhoids.
Seed soaked in buttermilk during the night and ground into
an emulsion the next morning is a cure for biliousness.
Apply
Leaf juice applied to skin for overexposure to the sun. Leaves
or seeds are used for poisonous animal bites.
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