- Benefits in Home Based Remedies
Winter Cherry
This plant is readily available. Usually its roots, and sometimes the leaves, are used for medicinal purposes.
It is a renowned tonic, aphrodisiac and nervine sedative. In addition, it has astringent and alterative properties.
Leaves and roots are narcotic. It is also diuretic and a form of bitters. It decreases vayu and kapha.
Besides being a tonic, it works wonders especially in cases of backache, pain in joints, rickets, seminal debility, premature ageing and weakness due to sexual exhaustion.
It is equally beneficial to ladies. It reduces weakness, cures leucorrhoea and tones up the uterus. It is very useful during convalescence,
The preparation of this medicine is very simple. Take the dry roots of winter cherry and get it powdered. 3 to 6 grams of powder either with honey or sugar and ghee given morning and evening along with a cupful of milk nourishes the body, rejuvenates the whole system and is most beneficial for an emaciated person.
Those who are very thin and want to gain weight and become healthy and robust should take it morning and evening, with a cupful of milk for at least a period of three to six months and notice the difference. It is but natural that when such an experiment is being carried out, too much of fried things, and food of sour. Acid and pungent tastes should be avoided and only simple nutritious diet should be taken.
Ashwagandha not only builds up physical strength but is ideal for nervous debility and nervous exhaustion. It removes weakness of the nerves, exhaustion, insomnia and mental debility.
There is a well established form of massage with the oil prepared from Ashwagandha for a thin and emaciated body. External application of Ashwagandha oil proves beneficial in the case of emaciated children suffering from rickets and young women with poor bustline.
Nowadays young people generally complain about nightmares and weakness of the seminal system for which the use of Ashwagandha morning and evening as indicated above helps a lot. A syrup prepared from Ashwagandha can be given to under nourished children and I cures skin disorders as well.
Ashwagandha along with vidarikanda and liquorice in the form of powder, given morning and evening, increases breast-milk.
The dose for treatment of rickets in children is 4-6 grains 4 times a day with honey and cow's milk 8-16 rattis or 16-32 grains at bedtime with honey and milk relieves vayu and brings sound sleep.
It is very useful and efficacious in cases where there is excessive rapidity of the heart's action. It tones up the heart.
Expert ayurvedic physicians prescribe it in cases of infertility. The woman has to take this powder for four days after the menstrual period along with cow's milk.
Ashwagandha, is employed in numerous ayurvedic remedies and a separate treatise can be written on it. Suffice it to say that it is a boon for emaciated, under nourished and physically and mentally exhausted individuals.
