| Root/root bark |
Amoebic dysentery |
Paste with/without opium taken orally |
44–46
|
| Cholera |
Powder orally taken or paste along with black pepper and ginger juice |
44
|
| Dysentery |
Powder orally taken |
47
|
| Elephantiasis and hydrocele |
Paste mixed with fermented rice water applied on the affected area |
48–50
|
| Epilepsy |
Grounded with goat milk and used as nasal drops |
46
|
| Indigestion |
Powder orally taken |
47
|
| Jaundice |
Taken with rice in grounded form |
51
|
| Neuritis |
Orally administered with cow butter |
46
|
| Rheumatism |
Powder taken with milk and sugar |
48
|
| Snake bite |
Powder orally taken. Paste applied on wounds and internally taken with ghee |
47 and 52
|
| Spider and insect bite |
Powdered and taken with vinegar |
48
|
| Syphilis |
Root bark powder taken orally |
46
|
| Latex |
Boils |
Applied externally |
46
|
| Black scar on the face |
Applied along with turmeric paste |
44
|
| Ascites |
Applied externally |
47
|
| Liver and spleen disorder |
Taken after dilution |
47
|
| Leprosy |
Applied on the affected area |
47
|
| Migraine |
Applied on the affected side vein of forehead |
44
|
| Piles (haemorrhoids) |
Applied externally |
44
|
| Dog/jackal bite |
Applied on wound |
44 and 48
|
| Ring worm |
Applied externally |
46
|
| Scabies |
Applied externally |
46
|
| Snake bite |
Applied on wounds or taken orally (20–30 drops for adults and 15–20 for infants) |
46
|
| Five drops with 50 drops of distilled water injected hypodermally |
46
|
| Syphilis, leprosy and odema |
Applied externally with sesame oil |
48 and 50
|
| Tooth ache |
Applied on affected tooth |
48 and 50
|
| Vertigo |
Applied on affected parts |
53
|
| Leaf |
Cold, cough, asthma and bronchitis |
Warmed along with ghee and bandaged on the chest of infants |
44
|
| Calculus, liver and spleen disorder |
Powder taken orally |
48
|
| Ear ache or ear troubles |
Juice along with fermented boiled rice water used as ear drops |
50
|
| Eczema and skin eruptions |
Applied externally along with turmeric and sesame oil |
48, 50 and 53
|
| Enlargement of abdominal viscera and spleen |
Oral administration of powder |
48 and 51
|
| Gonorrhoea |
Decoction used for washing and taken orally |
51
|
| Inflammatory swellings |
Covered on affected part after warming |
51
|
| Joint pain |
Powder taken |
47
|
| Malaria and intermittent fever |
Oral administration of fresh juice |
46, 49 and 51
|
| Body pain |
Paste applied after warming |
51
|
| Paralysis and sciatica |
Massaged after preparing decoction with sesame oil |
47
|
| Snake bite |
Oral administration of fresh juice |
50
|
| Ulcers, wounds, sores |
Powder orally administered or external application |
47, 49 and 51
|
| Flowers |
Health tonic |
Oral administration of powder |
47
|
| Cough |
Burnt to produce ash, then taken with honey |
44
|
| Rat bite |
Oral administration of powder |
47 and 49
|
| Dog/jackal bite (rabies) |
Seven tepals chewed with fine rice on seventh day of biting, continued for seven days decreasing one tepal everyday |
44
|
| Feet pain |
Decoction used for fomentation |
46
|
| Epilepsy |
Oral administration of paste with black pepper |
46
|
| Asthma and bronchitis |
Fruit taken with jaggery |
3
|
| Liver and spleen disorder |
Administered along with milk |
46
|
| Fruit |
Eye disorder |
Decanted ash water applied on eye lids |
44
|
| Anemia |
Mixed with same quantity of red chilli, mineral salt and taken with milk. |
46
|
| Whole plant |
Rheumatic pain and hyperacidity |
Paste directly taken |
44
|
| Young twigs |
Purgative |
Juice taken |
54
|
