Haridwar: Peepal is a tree that has been worshipped since the dawn of civilization and has great medicinal value apart from its religious significance.
This sacred tree native to the Indian subcontinent hold a wealth of medicinal value and is used to treat many ailments and diseases, ranging from a snake bite to asthma, skin diseases, kidney diseases, constipation, dysentery, impotency and various blood-related problems, said Acharya Bal Krishan of the Patanjali Ayurveda Ltd. in Haridwar, Uttarakhand.
Peepal tree leaves contain glucose, asteriod and mennos, phenolic while its bark is rich in Vitamin K, tainen and phaetosteroline. All of these ingredients make the peepal tree an exceptional medicinal tree.
According to the science of Ayurveda, every part of the peepal tree - the leaf, bark, shoot, seeds and its fruit has several medicinal benefits, and it is being used since ancient times to cure many diseases.
Acharya Bal Krishan has given the following medicinal tips for the use of Peepal:
* Bleeding diarrohea: Take soft stems of peepal, coriander seeds,crystal sugar in equal quantity and mix them well and take its 3-4 grams twice a day and it is very useful in this disease
* Poor apetite: Consume ripe fruits of Peepal Peepal fruit can also be taken for cough, pitta, blood-related problems, burning sensation and vomitting etc.
* Stomach pain: Make paste of 2.5 leaves of a peepal plant and mix with 50 grams jaggery and make small tablets of the mixture and take it 3-4 times a day. It will soothe the stomach pain.
* Asthma: Take a bark of plant and its ripe fruits. Make their powder separately and mix them in equal quantities. In take of this mixture thrice in a day is very effective in this problem. Make a powder of dry fruits of peepal and take it with two to three grams of water for 14 days twice a day and this will prove very effective.
* Snake Bite: In case of a snake bite give 2-2 spoons of the extracts of Peepal leaves three to four times to reduce the effect of the poison
* Skin diseases: Eat the soft leaves of Peepal and the problem itching and other skin diseases are cured. Taking 40 ml tea of this leaf is equally effective.
* Eczema itching: Take 50 gms peepali bark ash and add lime and ghee properly and make the paste of the mixture. Apply this paste on effective areas and it will prove soothing effects . Take 40 ml tea of peepal bark regularly and it will also be useful.
* Cracked Heals: Apply Peepal leaf extracts or its milk on cracked hands and heels to get best results.
* In the gastric-related blood disorders take 40 ml kwath and five gms of honey for best results.
* Blood purification: Take one to two gm of Peepal seeds powder and take it with honey twice a day and it will purify the blood.
* For constipation: Take 5-10 fruits of peepal daily.
* Liver and spline disease: Take 3-4 fresh leaves of Peepal and mix crystal sugar in it and make its powder. Mix the powder in 250 ml water and then filter the mixture. This squash has to be given twice a day to the patient for 5 days. This medicine is very effective for patient of Jaundice.
* Swelling in Spline: Take 10-20 gms of peepal bark and burn it out and add equal quantity of Kalmi Shora and pour it in ripe banana and eat one such banana each day and it will cure swelling of spline swelling.
* Hiccups: Take 50-100 gms bark of peepal and make tis charcoal and extinguish it in water.
* Eye pain: Take the milk of the leaves of the plant and apply on the eye.
* Tooth ache: Take barks of both peepal and banian tree in equal quantity and mix them well and boil the mixture in hot water.