Among all the drugs meant for purifying blood, neem bark is the best. Neem is beneficial in leprosy, itches, eczema, boils, pustules, sores and old wounds.
Grind the leaves, then enclose the paste secured thereby tightly in a wet cloth and tie it around an ulcer that has never responded to any treatment whatsoever. It will get healed quickly. An external application of neem oil or neem ointment on severely burnt and scalded regions will mitigate the distress immediately. Menstrual pains are seen to respond favourably if the leaves are warmed and tied in the region below the navel.
If one drinks its tender leaves in the spring season-seven mashas of them ground with black pepper (seven or eight) in water for seven days, one will be free from any skin affliction or of blood for the whole year. One should remain on a diet of gram flour and ghee during this period. Fill an ulcer with the dried leaf powder and the leaf ash; it will soon fill upto its prior normalcy.
A few drops of the fresh leaf juice in the nose will relieve the headache. Similar drops in the ear will remove the ear ache. Tooth stick of neem and gargling with neem leaf or flower decoction will harden the gums of the teeth and the teeth will become firm. A colyrium prepared out of the flowers will render the pain in the eyes less and increase the lustre of the eyes in general. Enclose neem flowers in a piece of cloth, make a wick of it. soak in mustard oil and burn; this way, you secure the colyrium of neem flowers.
Neem today is a great purifier of blood and a destroyer of kusht and syphilis, specially the latter, even of such a kind that has proved incurable by any other medicine. The gum of neem quickens the rate of blood flow and is invigorative or strength giving. The inner bark can cure ever such a type of fever which has stayed for a long time and has not yielded to any type of medication whatsoever: A tola of this bark boiled in ten chatak of water till only one chatak remains, filtered and then taken in the early morning for a few days is a sure remedy here.
The juice of neem leaf, mustard oil and water—these three are cooked together and applied over poisoned wounds with a very good result. The ash of neem bark will cure any purulent wound or sore that is constantly pus forming. A massage of neem oil is highly profitable for the convulsive distortion and spasm that sometimes accompanies an epidemic of cholera.
The oil from neem seed yields good results when massaged over a paralytic limb. An interesting use as hinted earlier is to make a person suspected of snake bite chew some leaves of neem; if he does not find them bitter, we can presume that the snake poison has started acting on him. Unani physicians consider neem as being dessolutory to all morbid swellings, palliative, purifying to blood, febrifuge (fever destructive), preventive of gangrene formation, germicidal and a sure cure for the worms of the stomach.
A poultice of neem leaf will cure any hard abscess and all morbid swellings; the hardening therein gets softened as well. Fomentation with boiled neem leaf is good for ear ache. Fresh flesh grows in the lesions and ulcers which consequently heal up quickly. A wash with leaf decoction will prevent gangrene formation or arrest its further growth if it has already commenced.
Bathing with a decoction of neem leaf is curative and preventive of all skin afflictions. Even though bark also retains all of these effects to some degree, its use is most recommended as a destroyer of fever. Flowers are generally used in purifying blood and rectifying its errors. Fruit is also a purifier of blood. Eating even one ripe fruit will make the bowels soft and the blood purified; it also destroys all worms in the intestine.
The pulp of the fruit is destructive to piles. Crush the fruit and apply it over the heads of children; this is an unfailing cure for head lice. But the best of neem is its seed oil—an effective medicine for all types of skin diseases including leprosy. It will destroy any germs whatsoever in all types of ulcers and old sores, specially of the goitre. Neem today is also praised as a very-valuable medicine for leprosy, syphilis and eczema.