Pharmacological action: Carminative, diuretic and antiseptic, anti-oxidant.
Medicinal use: Effective in palpitation, tachycardia, scurvy, cardiac and stomach debility, excessive body heat, chronic diarrhea and dysentery.
Category: A
Alsi (Linum usitatissimum) (Linseed)
Pharmacological action: Emollient, analgesic, expectorant, diuretic.
Medicinal use: Effective in all kinds of local inflammations, sores and ulcers. Also effective in internal inflammations and expectorant in colds, coughs, urinary irritations, gonorrhea, spermatorrhea and diarrhea.
Akhrot (Juglans regia) (Walnut)
Pharmacological action: Aphrodisiac and brain tonic.
Medicinal use: Effective in mental debility, indigestion, weak teeth and gums, skin ulcers, sores and eczema.
Pharmacological action: Digestive, astringent, sedative, anti-phlegmatic.
Medicinal use: Effective in phlegmatic cough, asthma, chronic dementia, insomnia, paralysis, neuralgia, and irritation of the kidney, uterus and bladder. Also useful in lung, bowel, and genito-urinary complaints such as cystitis.
Ailwa (Aloe barbadensis) (Aloe Vera)
Pharmacological action: Laxative, anticonstipatory, anthelmintic, resolvent.
Medicinal use: Effective in stomach disorders, glandular swelling, chronic ulcers, skin disorders.
Aftimoon (Cuscuta reflexa) (Dodder)
Pharmacological action: Anthelmintic, analgesic, purgative.
Medicinal use: Effective in purging the body of phlegmatic and atrabilious humors. Prescribed in epilepsy, melancholia and insanity. Acts as a blood purifier, reduces inflammations and relieves pain in the stomach, fever and jaundice.
Pharmacological action: Anti-inflammatory, tonic for brain and liver.
Medicinal use: Effective in hysteria, epilepsy, nervous irritability, depression, migraine, intermittent fevers, liver and spleen inflammation, menstrual irregularities, facial paralysis, piles.
Abhal (Juniperus communis) (Juniper)
Pharmacological action: Resolvent and diuretic.
Medicinal use: Effective in stomatitis, bronchitis, chest and liver complaints, piles, and labor pain. Also useful in toothache, earache, chronic gonorrhea and leucorrhea.
