Arjuna - Benefits of Natural Healing Herbs
Found throughout the whole of world, this tree has been well known to our ancient sages who used it liberally for the purpose of medicine and it has been found highly efficacious for toning up the heart. Nowadays when heart troubles are on the increase, a thorough investigation and research work on an extensive scale on this drug may yield wonderful results to the benefit of suffering humanity.
Especially the bark is used in medicine. It is brownish in colour, the internal colour being reddish. It is light in weight.
It is cooling, soothing and a mild cardiac stimulant. It is astringent, removes swelling and heals up wounds.
Take 6-12 grams of the bark or arjuna tree, a cupful of water and a cupful of milk, boil the whole thing and reduce to milk only. Filter, add a little cardamom and sufficient sugar. We then obtain a highly effective medicine for weakness of the heart and palpitation. It regulates the pulse and decreases swelling. It increases blood and improves the blood picture.
According to some authorities, Arjuna is better avoided where there is hypertension but in the author's humble opinion, it can be given in all conditions.
A most well-known medicine prepared from Arjuna is Arjuna rishta, which is a fine cardiac tonic, the dose being half an ounce with an equal quantity of water after the principal meals.
Preparations of Arjuna are generally more suitable for persons suffering from low blood pressure. Its decoction is also given.
The Ghee (Ghrita) prepared from Arjuna is also used in cardiac disorders.
Arjuna bark has astringent properties and when blood is passed in dysentery, it is given with goat's milk.
The powder of Arjuna bark is soaked from seven consecutive days in the juice of Vasaka and it is given in the form of a jelly, mixed with honey and sugar and cow's ghee to consumptive patients and it produces a fine tonic effect.
