It is very beneficial for cough, asthma, fever, piles, gonorrhea, syphilis and
intestinal worms.
Take one seer juice and 1/4th seer of gingili oil. Boil the juice along with oil. When
the juice is absorbed in the oil and the mixture reduced to 1/4th seer, then strain.
This can be daily rubbed to the head. It will give good eyesight, memory and cool
the brain. Take Ponnangkani juice 2 tolas and mix equal part of carrot juice, add
a little salt (Saindhava), and drink. It is useful in piles.
- Arugampul - one of Nature's gift to mankind; the juice controls cholesterol; purifies the
blood and also helps in keeping body trim and fit. - Modakkathan (Cardios Permum Halica Cabum) - is good for arthritis, and nervous
weakness; it is also a laxative. - Pudhina or mint, which contains vitamin A heals ulcers and is good for digestion. This is
a small plant. Spearmint, peppermint and mentha viridis are the varieties. It is an
astringent, refrigerant, stomachic, diuretic, stimulant, carminative and
antispasmodic. It is usually used in the form of 'chutnie' in loss of appetite,
nausea or tendency to vomit. It is useful in anorexia or loss of appetite and
diarrhea. It improves appetite. The whole plant can be dried and powdered and
made use of as a tooth powder.
Bind mint across your forehead. This will relieve headache.
A cupful of mint0tea, morning and evening, improves digestion. It is useful in
fever, jaundice, hiccup, stomachache, and pain in the bowels, headache,
vomiting, nausea, anorexia or loss of appetite, dysmenorrhoea or difficult
menstruation and pain in the abdomen caused by dysmenorrhoea. It gives good
sleep and increases the flow of urine.
The powder gives the same results in the above ailments. Take one or two
pinches daily in the food or in water. Mint can be added to hot milk or tea. This
removes abdominal pain.
Pudina Tel or oil is the oil distilled from the fresh flowering spearmint, mentha
viridis or mentha crispa. Its main active principles are carvone and menthone. It
resembles the oil of peppermint. This is useful in headache as an external
application. It is taken internally in dyspepsia, flatulence or wind in the bowels
and abdominal pain. The dose is 1 to 3 minims or drops.
Peppermint water is made out of oil of spearmint 1, water 1500 and distilled to
- Dose is 1 to 2 fluid ounces. This is also useful in loss of appetite, colic or
pain in the belly, vomiting, wind in the bowels, etc.