Kurchi - Benefits of Natural Healing Herb
It grows to a height of 12 to 24 ft. and bears white aromatic flowers.
There are certain varieties; White, black, sweet or bitter. In medicinal use the black and bitter type has been found more effective, the bark of the root being mainly imployed.
The seeds of the tree are used medicinally, being roasted and powdered after being cleaned.
It is a form of bitter tonic, appetizer, astringent. Digestive, and useful in piles, diarrhea, dysentery, blood disorders, pitta, worms, fever and excessive mucus.
Nowadays a lot of complaints areheard about digestive disorders, mainly constipation or dysentery. To this there is a very effective remedy, kutaja bark or the fruits of the tree known as indrajava.
It has been used for centuries in medicine and modern research in the laboratory, as well as in the clinical field has proved it to be really efficacious. Kurchi has thus found an honorable place in modern pharmacopoeia.
The bark of kutaja contains a bitter ingredient of tonic value. It increases appetite and can be given in acute or chronic fever. It improves the digestive system and is especially efficacious in chronic stomach troubles, dysentery, diarrhea, sprue and piles.
It reduces mucus formation. Roasted indrajava 9seeds of kutaja) cures diarrhea and can be given for stomach troubles with butter milk or honey.
Kutaja is a boon for those suffering from dysentery. The powder of the bark is given with butter-milk. It stops the griping pain, reduces mucus and one gets a clear motion and real relief.
Grandmothers have been known to give indrajava to children from their very early days so that it nullifies the Kapha Dosha and children are not troubled by worms but remain healthy, normal and robust.
The bark of the kutaja contains useful salts and calcium and hence it is very useful in chronic stomatitis.
In chronic fever the bark of kurchi along with gulancha prepared as a decoction is effective.
Kutajaghan is a very well known remedy, and 2 to 4 pills morning and evening, prove effective in dysentery, loss of appetite and gas trouble. Kutajarishta ½ an oz. after meals is effective in dysentery.
The powder of the bark of the tree can be given about 30 to 60 grains. The dose of indrajava is 10 to 20 grains. The decoction to be taken is ½ oz. and extract of kutaja 5 to 10 grains.
