Pharmacological action: Desiccative, vermicidal, anti-hemorrhoidal.
Medicinal use: Effective in cardiac and brain disorders like melancholia and insanity. Useful in bleeding piles as well as dysentery. Also helpful in quenching thirst, irritability of the stomach, excessive perspiration, cough and dyspepsia.
Category: N
Pharmacological action: Nervine tonic, anti-dyspeptic, attenuant.
Medicinal use: Effective in fevers, diarrhea, dysentery, anorexia, loss of appetite, ulcers. Acts as a cardiac and nervine tonic and also strengthens stomach, and relaxes muscles.
Neem (Melia azadirachta) (Margosa)
Pharmacological action: Blood purifier, antiseptic, astringent.
Medicinal use: Effective in fevers, thirst, bad odor of mouth, ulcers and inflammations, skin diseases, syphilitic sores and blood impurities. Also have carminative and expectorant properties.
Nelofar (Nelumbium nuciferum) (Water Lily)
Pharmacological action: Cardiac tonic, diuretic, cooling, sedative.
Medicinal use: Effective in diarrhea, fever, burning sensation in the body, bleeding piles, menorrhagia. Recommended as cardiac tonic.