Paarijaat - Rich In Medicinal Properties

Paarijaat ( Nyctanthes arbortristis) or Harasingaar tree of heaven. It is said that this herb appeared along with other gems at the time of the churning of the ocean of milk.It enhances the intellect of the person who takes rest in its shadow. It also removes negative energy. Its flowers are tender and fragnant which gives coolness and energy to the brain.This useful tree should be planted near your house if possible. It increases the efficiency of liver. It clears the bowels and helps in rheumatism and skin disease.

Medicinal Uses

Chronic Fever: Mix the juice of 7-8 tender leaves of Paarijaat and 5-10 ml of ginger juice with honey and take it in morning and evening.

Worm Infection in children: Give the juice of 7-8 leaves of Paarijaat with small piece of jaggery. The worm will be killed and will be passed with feces.

Burning sensation and dry cough: Juice of its leaves mixed with sugar candy alleviates pitta generated burning sensation.and its juice mixed with honey cures dry cough.

Proven remedy for fever: Intake of juice of 30-35 leaves mixed with honey for 3 days helps in fever.

Wholesome Black cumin helps in many diseases

Black cumin (Nigella Sativa) is a flavoring spice. Its grains are black, rich in nutrients and are highly useful. It is digestant, appetizer, pacifier of Vata, anthelmintic, remover of foul odor, cough expectorant, stimulate uterine contraction and uterus cleansing. It reduces inflammation. It helps in heart disease, eye disease, cancer, diabetes, stones, dandruff, worm infection, fever etc..

Taking 5-7 grains of black cumin with honey water (Mix one spoonful of honey with 1/2 cup of lukewarm water) in the morning before brushing teeth everyday increases liver cells and thereby strengthens the liver. It eradicates many physical problems and improves health.

Puerperal use of Black Cumin

Consumption of Black cumin by mother after child birth cleanses her uterus, promotes lactation, and purifies her milk.It improves her digestion, increases appetite and restores health. It prevents puerperal fever and backache.

Other Medicinal uses:

1. Cold, Rhinitis & Headache : Roast Black cumin seeds, pack in a cloth and smell it.

2. Asthama, Pain in ribs and dysmenorrhea: Take 2 gm. black cumin with lukewarm water 3 times a day. It helps in dysmenorrhea for pain relief and smooth menstrual flow. It helps also in cough.

3. Skin Disorders: Mix powdered black cumin with coconut oil to make a paste and apply it on skin.

4. Skin Blemishes: Mix black cumin oil with olive oil and apply it on face. Wash after some time.

Medicinal uses of cinnamon

Cinnamon is hot in potency, digestive, energizing, blood purifying, semen-promoting, and diuretic.It pacifies vata and kapha and thereby cures many diseases caused by increased vata and kapha. It improves immunity by increasing white blood cells. It helps in piles, worm infections, itching, tuberculosis, influenza, disease of urinary bladder, typhoid, heart disease, cancer, abdominal diseases etc.It is special medicine for infectious disease.

• Abdominal diseases, cough and colds : Licking one gram of cinnamon mixed with one spoonful of honey twice a day helps in indigestion, dyspepsia, dysentery, flatulence, cough and colds.
• Heart disease : Add 1 gm of cinnamon powder to 200 ml of water and boil the mixture on low flame till it is reduced to half. Then strain it and drink. By taking it everyday in the morning, an unusually high level of cholesterol is reduced. Persons with pitta prakritti in any season and persons of other constitutions in the summer season should take the above mentioned cinnamon decoction after adding milk to it.This recipe purifies blood and gives strength to the heart.
• Sore throat,cough and bad breath : A sore throat is alleviated by sucking a small piece of cinnamon. It clears the voice. It sedates a cough, removes bad breath and strengthens the gums.

Precautions: Use of cinnamon is prohibited for pregnant women. If a person of  pitta constitution takes an excessive amount of cinnamon he develops headache. Its consumption in excess quantity and consumption at night or for long time is harmful.