Category: root

Radish

Title:Botanical Name:Raphnus sativas,Mula(Nepal)


Purpose:

Diuretic, laxative, lothotriptic, antiscorbutic ( a remedy for scurvy) and Appetiser.
Leaf juice is useful for Dysuria ( difficulty of passing urine), closure of urinary passage ( stranguary), acts as stimulant.
Root juice is useful in urinary trouble, piles and stomachache.
Seeds are carminative, expectorant, laxative and found to be effective in increasing information and excretion.

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Radish is mostly cooked in nepali food and mostly producedin homemade pickles

Parts used:
Seed, root and leaf.

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Asafoetida

Title:Botanical Name:ferula foetida, Hing(Nepal)


Purpose:

Asafoetida has been held in great esteem amongst indigenous medicines from the earlist time in India and Nepal. It is reputed as a drug which expels wind from the stomach and counteracts any spasmodic disorders. It is also a nervine stimulant, digestive agent and a sedative.

Hysteria
Impotency
Children’s Nervous Disorders
Women’s Ailments
Stomach Disorder
Toothache

 

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Asafoetida is useful in the treatment of respiratory disorders like whooping cough, asthma and bronchitis. About 3to6 centigrams of this gum, mixed with 2 teaspoon of honey, a quarter teaspoon of white anion juice and 1 teaspoon of betel leaf juice, taken thrice daily would keep the patient away from such disorders.

Its minerals and vitamin contents include substantial calcium besides phosphorus, iron, carotene, riboflavin and niacin.

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Asparagus

Title:Botanical Name:Asparagus racemosus Wild,Satavari/Kurilo(Nepal)


Purpose:

The roots are bitter, sweet, emollient, antispasmodic, cooling, demulcent, diuretic, nervine, tonic, constipating or antidiarrhetic, opthalimic, galactagogue, nutritive, mucilaginous, refrigerant, anobyne, aphrodisiac, stomachic and antidysenteric . They are useful in nervous disorders, dyspepsia, tumours, scalding of urine, throat infections, tuberclosis, cough bronchitis, general debility, muscle spasms, rheumatism, stomach ulcers, hematemesis, cancer – strengthens one from and for chemotherapy, convalescence, dehydration, diarrhea, dysentery, chronic fevers, herpes, hyperacidity, Immune system boost-good for AIDS, impotence, infertility, leucorrhea and menopause.

 

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Root juice: one teaspoonful.
With Milk preparation: 125 m

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Malabar Nut

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


Purpose:

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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Himalayan Monkshood

Title:Botanical Name:Aconitum spicatum, Bish(Nepal)


Purpose:

Rhizome is dried up and taken to relieve body-ache, fever, cold, cough, nose discharge etc.Root paste is taken for joint pain.

 

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

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Barberry

Title:Botanical Name:Berberis aristata, Chutro(Nepal)


Purpose:

Small injury,hives,for eye infection and eye problems,even for reducing fever.
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The roots possess antibacterial and anti-inflammatory activities. The drug is used as a cholagogue, stomachic, laxative, diaphoretic, antipyretic and antiseptic. It is administered externally for painful eye afflictions and hemorrhoids. The root bark is useful in amenorrhoea.
It has an essential active ingredient, Berberine, which possesses anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. It is used in the treatment of leucorrhoea. It is also used in vaginal enema.

Cambium paste is used for rheumatism and pith paste is used for eye problems

Parts used is Root, stem, fruits.

Also when boiled in water making it thick soup is consumed

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Chiretta

Title:Botanical Name:Swertia Chirayita,Chiraito(Nepal)


Purpose:
Chirayata is a valuable bitter tonic. It is laxative and an appetizer . It also corrects the disordered process of nutrition and restore the normal fuction of the system.

Fever
Chirayatra is an effective drug for reducing fevers.It is specially beneficial in the treatment of malarial fevers. It is also effective in hysteria and convulsion.

Stomach Disorders
The herb is an excellent drug for strengthening the stomach and promoting its action. It is used in the treatment of dyspepsia and diarrhoea.

Intestinal Worms
Chirayata possesses anthelmintic, that is, worms destroying, properties and is used in killing intestinal worms. An infusion of the herb is taken for this purpose.

General Debility
It serves as an effective tonic in case of general weakness and during convalescence. The infusion of the plant can be taken in doses of 60ml or40 tablespoons twice a day, before meals.
Preparation and Doses: The herb is used in the from of an infusion or tincture.The infusion is prepared in the hot water with aromatics likes cloves and cinnamon. It is generally taken in doses of 15 to 30 ml or 1 to 2 tablespoon.

Other Uses
Hiccups: The root of the plant is useful in checking hiccups and vomitting. It is taken in doses of 0.5 to 2 grams with honey.

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Winged Yam

Title:Botanical Name:Dioscorea Deltoidea Wall,Bhaykur/Ghar tarul(Nepal)


Purpose:

Rhizome is eaten raw to relieve throat pain,This has found to effectively reduced blood pressure of spontaneously

 

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Uses:

In Nepal its use is to kill lices,for killing fish acting as a venom for them.Many medicine is also prepared by it.For injured body parts,body spot itches,and for energy giving medicine it is used.
It is also eaten by burning it on fire.

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