MALABAR NUT - GOOD FOR CLEANSING THE BLOOD OF ITS IMPURITIES

ADHATODA VASICA NEES

Adhatoda vasica is a well-known medicinal plant. This dense shrub with a yellowish bark grows to a height of 1.2 to 2.4 metres with many long ascending branches. The enlongated lanceolate leaves are dark green above and paler beneath. The white flowers are borne in short dense axillary spikes.

Medicinal Usage of Malabar Nut:

• Bronchitis.
• For the early stages of leprosy.
• Good for cleansing the blood of its impurities.
• For assisting in heart troubles.
• Asthma, sore eyes (conjunctivitis) and gonorrhoea.
• Checking fever, vomiting and loss of memory.
• Helps in the early stages of leucoderma and jaundice.
• Tumours and diseases of the mouth.
• For aborthion.
• Dysuria or painful and difficult urination.

How to Use Malabar Nut:

• The decoction of the root is useful in treating bronchitis, asthma, vomiting, sore eyes, fevers and gonorrhoea. The decoction of the fruit also helps in taking care of bronchitis.
• The decoction of the leaves promotes menstrual flow and is useful in gonorrhoea.
• The decoction of the flowers purifies the blood and improves its circulation. It also checks painful and difficult urination and jaundice.
• The decoction of the leaves and roots of this plant is considered as a very efficacious remedy which is normally administered, along with ginger, for all sorts of coughs.
• The decoction of the leaves is used to cure rheumatism.
• The dried leaves are rolled into the form of cigarettes and smoked to cure asthma.
• The juice extracted from the leaves is used for diarrhoea and dysentery.
• The leaves, roots and specially the flowers are antispasmodic or have those qualities which prevent or cure spasms.
• The bitter juice from the leaves is administered in infusion to expel worms from the body.
• The fresh flowers are used in opthalmia or the severe inflammation of the eye or conjunctiva.

Parts used:

The roots, leaves, flowers and fruits.

Dose:

​Normal.