1. For comfortable delivery.
Tieing the tender root of neem tree at the loins of the woman about to deliver will render the delivery trouble free.
2. In treating wounds, emesis (excess of vomiting) and kushta.
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1. In kushta.
Taking the water in which the powder of one hundred leaves of neem is mixed daily and doing so for a total duration of six month will destroy even extreme cases of decadent leprosy (galita kushta) viz advanced and incurable leprosy in which fingers and toes have started falling of.
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As noted in the very beginning, apart from bakayan, there are quite a few other plants coming under the same family of neem viz Meliaceae that are of considerable medicinal importance. Inpopular language some of them also get a name of being a “variety” of neem; for instance, Chukrassia tabularis Juss is also called Hill-neem konda vepa in Telugu and the neem from Madagiri, madagiri bavu in Kannada. Of these, discussing rohitaka is of great interest from many points of view, as shown below, at the end.
(a) Shodala
1. In gridhrasi (sciatica, a neuritis of the great sciatic nerve that passes down the back of the thigh) or, rheumatism affecting the loins.
A kalka or paste prepared out of mahanimba and jata (i.e. jatamansi Nardostachys jatamansi DC) destroys this ailment.
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This is essentially a plant from Myanmar though it is often found in India.
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Naregamla is probably from a regional Indian language name, naringa.
This plant does not seem to have any name in either Sanskrit or Hindi. In English it is called Goanese or Country Ipecacuanha. In Marathi, this is tinpani, pittvel or kapur bhendi, in Goanese, trifolio (the three leaved); in Kannada and Tamil, nela naringa; in Malayalam, nelanarakanx in Konkani, bhuinaringa.
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Sanskrit authors call this priyangu though by the same name they also call two other plants Setaria italica Beauv a food grain which is kagun in Hindi and Callicarpa macrophylla vahl {phul priyangu in Hindi). Agalaia roxb rghiana Miq: is a tree and is called priyangu in Hindi and also Bengali.
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Ayurveda knows this plant as rohini (the healer), mamsa rohini (healing the injured flesh) and charmankasa (used in tanning the leather) or charmakan (causing, fresh skin), as Bhava Prakasha calls it. Its speciality of action is that it helps quick regeneration of the tissues so that the process of healing is hastened up.
This is a big sized tree with membranous leaves, that have an acute apex. Fruits are roundish and elongated; they are smooth and slippery like the neem fruits.
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In English this is called Emetic Nut.
In Telugu and Tamil its name is walursi, walsura.The plant is found in Kerala State, Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, mainly.
The bark of the stem contains resin, saponin and tannin.
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