The flavenoids or yellowish colouring substances of the flowers are three related compounds kaempferol, quarcetin and myrecetin. They are present mostly as glycosides extractable with alcohol. Dry flowers also yield on chemical analysis a green, amorphous, bitter, toxic substance and a highly pungent essential oil responsible for the characteristic smell.
Neem Therapy: Yunani Opinion on Neem
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.
Neem Therapy: Customs and Neem
The role that this many sided but very familiar and humble plant of neem plays in our country’s economy is worth being emphasised. This also has many lessons for our future planners for health and environmental care. We shall point this out in the section entitled some prospective suggestions later. Here we are concerned with some interesting aspects of its commercial cultivation and exploitation.
Neem Therapy: Neem and Our Economics
The role that this many sided but very familiar and humble plant of neem plays in our country’s economy is worth being emphasised. This also has many lessons for our future planners for health and environmental care. We shall point this out in the section entitled some prospective suggestions later. Here we are concerned with some interesting aspects of its commercial cultivation and exploitation.
Neem Therapy: Neem in Pharmacology
The leaf extract has a definite action on blood; it markedly delays the clotting time. Action of this extract on blood plasma clotting time using the highly poisonous venom of the snake Russel’s viper as a standard was studied. Most effective injection of clotting was noticed on full saturation with ammonium sulphate. Insecticidal and insect repellent properties of neem have been justified.
Neem Therapy: The Relatives of Neem
There are many plants of medicinal importance in the botanical family of Meliaceae to which neem belongs. Some of these have been listed earlier. It is time to look at them in some detail. The most famous of them is Melia azadarch Linn, (bakayan in Hindi), or mahanimba in Sanskrit. This means the Greater neem, a plant which is much praised in Ayurveda for many of its medicinal uses.
Neem Therapy: Neem In Rendering Alcohol Unpalatable
The usual means of making alcohol unpalatable in India is to use many important substances like pydirine, spirit and others. Indian. Council of Industrial Research was in search of a much cheaper source for this purpose when these were not available during war days.
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Neem Therapy: Neem’s Use in Medical Treatment
Nirnbidine and sodium nimbidinate compounds are useful in many skin diseases. These are eczema, scabies, mercuric morbid swellings of the skin, furunculosis and various types of septic wounds and lesions due to burn. Gargling of nirnbidine is advised in sore throat.
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Neem Therapy: Neem Leaf Preparations
Shooting pains of the Stomach: A drinking of its leaf decoction with which ginger is added is advised. Hot leaf paste is applied on the head for headaches due to vata vitiation. Such an application is helpful in goitre, erysepelas (spreading painful eruption, visarpa] and wounds. Fresh juice of leaf is useful,in destroying urinary stones. A poultice of the leaf along with the leaf of neem is tied on tumours with a good effect. A Janta of leaf Is administered internally for expelling intestinal worms.
Neem Therapy: Yunani Opinion on Origin of Neem
The plant is essentially Persian and therefore well known to yunani practitioners who had been using this plant from ancient times and have brought that knowledge to India on coming here. They make use of the root bark, fruit, flower and leaf. They consider leaf and seed as bitter and the removers of kapha They use it in the splenic enlargement and diseases of the heart. It induces vomiting and contracts the blood vessels, because of which reason it is effective in preventing bleeding at the nose.
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