Jasmine

Title:Botanical Name:Jasminum officianle,Chameli(Nepal)


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Jasmine tea is drunk for calming and because of its aphrodisiac qualities. Jasmine oil used in massage and also is soothing to the skin, headache, toothache, menstrual cramps and treats depression and nerve conditions.

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Part Used: Leaves,root,flower

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Heena

Title:Botanical Name:Lawsonia inermis,Mehndi(Nepal)


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It is Aromatic, antifungal, anti-bacterial, coolant and astringent.
Leaves paste is applied as a prophylactic against skin diseases. The paste of leaves is used in headache, joint pain, sleeplessness, diarrhea, jaundice, heart diseases, fever and burning sensation in feet. Powder is used on boils and burns. Decoction of leaves, if gargle, is useful in sore throat. It is natural hair dye.

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Flowers, Powdered Leaves, Fruit

Henna is mainly used as a coloring agent. It is mixed with other natural dyes and is largely used as hair dye and even for textiles. The oil obtained from its flowers is used in perfumery.

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Malabar Nut

Title:Botanical Name:Justica Adhatoda, Asuro(Nepal)


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a) Bronchitis and Asthma
b) Tuberculosis
Asuro/ Malabar Nut flowers should be bruised and put in a pot. Some sugar crystals are added and the jar kept in the sun. It should be stirred every morning and evening. The preserve is ready for use in about a month.
Even the juice from its leaves is useful in treating T.B. about 30 ml of the juice thrice of a day with honey. It relieves the irritable cough by its soothing action on the nerve and by liquefying the sputum, which makes expectoration easier.
c) Cough
For coughs, some leaves of the plant are boiled in water, strained and mixed with 3 times more honey. This decoction provides relief (honey should be added after the decoction becomes lukewarm). Similarly a confection of the plant flowers eaten in doses of 12 grams twice daily relieves cough.
d) Intestinal worms:
Its leaves, bark, the root-bark, the fruit and flowers are useful in the removal of intestinal parasites. The decoction of its root and bark in doses of 30 grams twice or thrice a day for 3 days can be for this purpose. This juice of its fresh leaves can also be used in doses of a teaspoon thrice a day for days.e) Diarrhoea and Dysentery.
Due to its astringent taste it is also useful in treating the diarrhoea and Dysentery.
Skin Diseases:

A poultice of its leaves can be applied with beneficial results over fresh wounds, rheumatic joints and inflammatory swellings. So it has Analgesic and Anti-inflammatory properties. A warm decoction of its leaves is useful in treating scabies and other skin diseases.

 

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Procedure:
1) First collect juice or make decoction form fresh leaves.
2) Heat the juice putting on a pan smoothly and add Ghee to it.
3) Make the powder of sugar candy and pippali
4) First mix the sugar in boiled juice and then, pippali powder.
5) This juice becomes viscous and semisolid.
6) When the juice becomes dark semisolid, take the pan out from stove.
7) At the end when the paste becomes lukewarm, pour honey and make homogenous mixture.
8) Now it can be used.
Indication:
Expectorant and carminative.
Indicated in asthma, chronic cough and fever, bronchitis.
Dosage: 3-6 grams, twice a day, before meals with milk or lukewarm water.

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Traditionally this herb is mixed with cow liquid excrete or with milk and drink

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