Make a paste of the leaf, warm this and apply to swellings, burns and scalds. The
swelling will we reduced and the burns will heal up quickly. Boil the leaves and
churn them with honey. Eat them. You will have evacuation of the bowels. The
bowels will be well cleansed. Pain in the chest, cough piles, ulcers in the bowels
will be cured.
Mix British figs with the leaves, grind them well and apply to boils and swellings.
They will burst quickly. Boil the leaves, add butter and fry and eat. Giddiness due
to biliousness will be cured.
Add almonds, papaveris (Khas Khas), Sujee, ghee, milk and sugar to the leaves
and makes a confection. This will give strength and beauty to the body. It is a
good tonic. Pain in the waist will be cured.
The seed is useful in dysentery, gonorrhea, and heat of the body, excessive
thirst, cough and consumption. Fry the seeds and make a powder. Make a
decoction of the powder. This is useful in pain in abdominal colic, flatulence or
wind in the bowels, gonorrhea, dysentery and internal heat of the body. Boil rice
with a little of seed and salt and ghee. Eat. This will increase the blood. This is a
blood tonic. Fry the seed with a little ghee and powder it. Fry some wheat and
powder it. Mix the two in equal parts. You can make this a substitute for coffee.
Internal heat will be cured. Add the seed to the conjee. This will increase the milk
in nursing mothers.
Make a paste of the seed and apply it to the head. Keep it for some time and
then take bath. Hairs will grow. It will prevent falling of hair. Soak some seeds in
the curd for some time and then take the curd and the seed. This is beneficial in
dysentery. Fry in ghee equal parts of a little methi seed, mustard, asafetida and
turmeric. Powder them, mix them with boiled rice and eat. This is beneficial in
stomach pain, abdominal colic, dysmenorrhoea, and swelling of liver and spleen.
Fry a little dried chilli, mustard, methi seeds, Tuvar-ki-dhai, sweet Nim leaves and
asafetida in a vessel and pour tamarind soup over this, add salt, cover the
vessel. Let the soup be reduced to half quantity. Take this with rice. Indigestion,
flatulence, anorexia or disgust for food will be cured. This is a good appetizer.
Vendava Kolambu or soup is a great change when one is tired of too much
Sambar or dhal soup. It is a good appetizer, stomachic and carminative.
Medicinal Properties:
Cardiac problems: Boil 1 tsp methi seeds in 1 1/4 cups water.Strain and
add 2 tsp honey.Take twice daily.
Diabetes: 2 tsp powdered seeds taken daily with milk.The treatment
should continue for at least a month.