If the goiter (kantha mala) has become mature and a wound has arisen there or it has become ulcerous, soak a wick of cotton in neem oil and place it in the exposed region; there will be a quick healing and a surprising filling up.
Neem Therapy: Neem to Cure Plague
Take two tolas of the inner bark, let it be ground with a proportionate amount of water and then filter it in five tolas of water. This is to be drunk morning and evening. Apply poultice of fine ground neem leaves on the morbid swellings at the armpits. By this measure the swellings will get spread out and the fever will be quietened.
Neem Therapy: Nutritive Value of Neem Leaf
Once Mahatma Gandhi wanted to know the nutritive value of neem. The then Director of the National Institute of Nutrition, Coonoor undertook such a study and found out that in the green leaves of neem, there occurs a plenty of nutritive principles.
Neem Therapy: Neem to Treat Joint Pains
In joint pains, rheumatism (sandhi vata) and neurotic pains at the joints (amavata)massaging with neem oil gives relief, specially in the latter. It is again the sulphur content of neem that is believed to be responsible for such a result.
Neem Therapy: Neem to Treat Boils and Pimples
Crush a fistful of leaves into a paste and apply this as poultice on boils, pimples (caused by the uprooting of a hair), ulcers, pustules and abscesses. This will act as a stimulative in healing as well as a disinfectant and a vermifuge warding the germs). The germs will die and a quick benefit will result.
Neem Therapy: Neem as a General Germicidal
The most, medicative product of neem plant is its oil. An application of it on the surface is disinfective, germicidal, stimulative and healing. The sores and ulcers of a old syphilitic patient, hard abscesses, highly vitiated wounds – for all of these, this is a very useful medicine. The wounds that do not heal up well by any other treatment -even they v/ill show a markedly effective response when treated by neem oil.
Neem Therapy: Neem for Proper Liver Functioning
Two ounces of fresh leaves thrown in one pint of boiling water and then cooled will yield a preparation that is bitter but nourishing. Drinking this has a marked effect on liver functioning; the faecal colour will then become normal and deep yellow. Such an extract is useful in chronic malarial fever though not so good as neem oil. Its another significant use is in dressing and curing chronic and old wounds of a syphilitic patient.
Neem Therapy: Miscellaneous Uses of Neem
Fish attractant: Along the Coramandal coast, fishermen throw neem branches in the sea, fishes get attracted to them in large number during their spawning or egg laying period and can then be caught easily.
Neem Therapy: Neem in Snake Bite Treatment
If a patient presumed to be bitten by snake is given a few leaves of neem to chew and he does not find them bitter, consider that the venom has gone into his body. Administer him with neem leaf water or any other antidote. He can be considered to be cured only when he finds the neem leaves bitter again.
Neem Therapy: Neem to Cure Malaria Fever
Neem leaves and heated alum are powdered and pills prepared from them are given in controlling the rigors of malaria fever. This is the folklore practice of Dumka forest division of Dumka district in Bihar.