Tamil Name: பூமருது Decoction of leaves of all ages used for diabetes mellitus. Some physicians believe the dried fruit decoction to be better. - Roots have been used for a variety of stomach ailments. Leaf decoction for diabetes; also use as a diuretic and purgative. - Decoction of old leaves and dried fruit (dried from one to two weeks), 50 gms to a pint of boiling water, 4 to 6 cups daily has been used for diabetes. Old leaves and ripe fruit are preferred, believed to have greater glucose lowering effect. Young leaves and flowers have a similar effect, though only 70% that of matures leaves and fruits. The wood has no known glucose lowering effect; the bark, a very small amount. A decoction of 20 gms of old leaves or dried fruit in 100 cc of water was found to have the equivalent effect to that of 6 to 7.7 units of insulin. - In Pahang decoction of bark has been used for the treatment of diarrhea. - Infusion of bark used for diarrhea. - The bark, flowers and leaves used to facilitate bowel movements. - Decoction of fruits or roots gargled for aphthous stomatitis. - Decoction of leaves and flowers used for fevers and as diuretic. - Leaf decoction or infusion used for bladder and kidney inflammation, dysuria, and other urinary dysfunctions. - Seeds considered to have narcotic properties; also employed against aphthae
Tamil Name: மருதாணி Henna is a tall shrub or small tree, 2–6 M high. It is glabrous, multibranched with spine tipped branchlets. Henna, lawsonia inermis, produces a red-orange dye molecule, lawsone, pure natural substance which produces red colour that can be coloured for hair, nails, fingers, palms and soles. The leaves of the henna plants have a very pleasant fragrance and have medicinal properties. It leaves hair shiny and smooth. It acts as a cooling agent for head and body. Henna contains those natural ingredients which are vital for hair nourishment. It is also used for body tattooing, textile dying and tanning. Henna has many traditional and commercial uses, the most common being as a dye for hair, skin and fingernails, a dye and preservative for leather and cloth, and as an anti-fungal.
Tamil Name:ஆழிவிறை Garden cress is a plant. The parts that grow above the ground are used to make medicine. People take garden cress for coughs, vitamin C deficiency, constipation, tendency toward infection (poor immune system), and fluid retention.
Tamil Name: காட்டுபுகைஇலை Lobelia is a plant. The above ground parts are used to make medicine. Lobelia is used for breathing problems including asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough, and shortness of breath (apnea) in newborn infants. Some people take lobelia as a sedative to help them relax. Other people use it to increase sweating. Lobelia is applied to the skin for muscle pain, joint lumps associated with rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatic nodules), bruises, sprains, insect bites, poison ivy, and ringworm. In manufacturing, lobelia is used in cough preparations and counterirritant products. Some stop-smoking products around the world include lobelia as an ingredient. But since 1993, manufacturers have not been allowed to include lobelia in stop-smoking products sold in the U.S. That’s when research found that lobelia doesn’t make stop-smoking products any more effective.
Tamil Name: குழ்தி Horse gram is sharp, bitter and hot. It is beneficial in cough breathing problem due to phlegms, flatulation, hicups, stones and fever. It also eliminates germs and worms. It causes impurities of bile and blood. It also causes inflammation and checks sweating. 1. Drinking semi liquid solution of horse gram powder cures flatulation. 2. If horse beans mixed with powdered dry ginger, asafoetida and "veed salt" is taken it cures the pain of the stomach. 3. If it is used in food it cures disease of the stomach. 4. If the water in which horse gram had been soaked for the whole night (and is mashed in the same water in the morning) is taken daily, taken twice then it cures "stones". 5. The use of horse gram in the diet relieves the pain of dry piles. 6. Drinking the semi liquid mixture of powdered horse gram and powdered black pepper cures sore throat. 7. Its use in the diet is good for women as their menstruation is purified.
Tamil Name: அறளி Mappia foetida is a medium-sized tree, which belongs to Olacaceae plant family. It is found to contain 16.0% of 3-keto-octadec-cis-15-enoic acid previously hitherto unknown in the Olacaceae plant family. It also contains other normal fatty acids such as palmitic acid (12.3%), stearic acid (4.2%), oleic acid (16.2%), linoleic acid (11.6%) and linolenic acid (39.7%) Mappia foetida, foetidine 1 and 2, having anticancer and antiviral properties. These alkaloids, soluble in water, are present in all the parts of the plant, and are the precursors of camptothecin and of 9-methoxy-camptothecin, which are alkaloids known to have pharmacodynamic properties but also to be insoluble in water. The particular water solubility of the novel compounds make them particularly suitable for the treatment of the patients by the parenteral route, avoiding the use of toxic excipients or of unsuitable chemical derivatizations.
