Other Names :

Tamil

Chemparuti

English

Red cotton tree

Telugu

Erra patti

Malayalam

Chuvanna paruthi

Kannada

Hindi

Nurma

Sanskrit

Raktakarps

It is a shrubby, branched plant. The flowers are red in colour.

Eye diseases.

Soak the petals in the breast milk then juice is used for eye diseases.

Other Names :

Tamil

Panji

English

Cotton

Telugu

Pinja

Malayalam

Panjni

Kannada

Ambara

Hindi

Rul

Sanskrit

Anagnika

Cotton is much branched, erect plant. Cotton  boll contains seeds covered with fine hairs .

Urinary problems, wound healer, painful menstrual period

Root decoction is given for urinary problems. The leaf extract is good for healing wounds. Seed infusion of cotton is given during painful menstrual periods.

Other Names :

Tamil

Sirukurinjan, sarkarai kolli

English

Gymnema

Telugu

Malayalam

Kannada

Hindi

Sanskrit

A climbing plant common in Central and Southern India and on the Western Ghats and in the Goa territory.

Snake-bite, Fever, Cough. diabetic mellitus.

Root has long been reputed as a remedy for snake-bite, its powder being dusted upon the wound, or made into a paste with water and applied and a decoction given internally. A decoction (1 in 10) is given in doses of 1/2 to 1 ounce for fever and cough. It has properties similar to Ipecac. Leaves triturated and mixed with castor oil are applied to swollen glands and to enlargement of internal viscera as the liver and spleen.

Other Names :

Tamil

Velai ; Naivela ; Tiavela

English

Caravalla Seeds

Telugu

Vaminta ; Velakura

Malayalam

Shrikala

Kannada

Hulhul ; Mabli Kalvana ; Tilavana

Hindi

Arkapushpika ; Suryavarta

Sanskrit

This annual plant (weed) commonly   on cultivated land , is met with in the warm parts of India. This plant much resembles in odour of   asafoetida, but comparatively delicate, and the small kidney-shaped black seeds resemble that of Cleome viscosa.

Fever, Snake-bite

Powered seeds in doses of 30 grains to one drachm, are administered internally, for the expulsion of round worms, combined with sugar, twice a day for two days and followed on the third morning with castor oil. For this the seeds are boiled or roasted in about two table-spoonfuls of ghee and the whole added to 1/4 seer of water mixed with a pinch of salt, and taken in a single draught. Bruised with vinegar, lime juice or hot water, they can be made into a plaster or poultice for external application. Leaves are applied to boils to prevent the formation of puss ; also used in scorpion-sting and snake-bite. 

Other Names :

Tamil

Karpoora siljaththu

English

Gypsum

Telugu

Karpoora siljaththu

Malayalam

Karpoora siljaththu

Kannada

Karpoora siljaththu

Hindi

Karpoora siljaththu

Sanskrit

Karpoora siljaththu

Gypsum is mined in several places in India. Chemically it is hydrous calcium sulphate. It is calcined and prescribed in inflammations of the urinary tract and obstructions therein.

Other Names :

Tamil

Suryakanti

English

Sunflower

Telugu

Aditya-vhaktichettu

Malayalam

Suryakanti

Kannada

Suryakanti

Hindi

Surajmukhi

Sanskrit

Sury-mukhi

The seeds found on the inflorescence and commercially used for edible oil. Flowers are yellow in colour.

Bronchitis, coughs, asthma, dysentery, whooping cough and nervous conditions.

The flowers and the dried leaves are prepared as tea for bronchitis, asthma, coughs, asthma, dysentery, whooping cough.

Other Names :

Tamil

Valampuri

English

East indian screw tree

Telugu

Malayalam

Kannada

Hindi

Marodphali

Sanskrit

It is a tree grow normally in hilly areas and fruits are turn to right curved.

Ear diseases.

The oil is boiled with this fruit and do filtration then pour 4- 5 drops to ear for ear diseases.

Other Names :

Tamil

Nannari

English

Indian sarasaparilla

Telugu

Arakkam

Malayalam

Sugandha-palada

Kannada

Anantamul

Hindi

Sariba

Sanskrit

Nannari

This climbing twiner plant is found throughout India, common in Bengal, Bombay Presidency and extending to Travancore and Ceylon. It is a perennial  plant. Leaves are elliptic or oblong to linear -lanceolate in nature.

Nutritional disorders, fever, skin diseases, urinary disorders, diarrhoea, leprosy, asthma, piles, and ulcerations.

Hot infusion of the root-bark with milk and sugar is a good alternative and tonic, especially for children in chronic cough and diarrhoea. For ulcers and swellings paste of the root is applied to cleanse and cure. Milky juice is dropped into inflamed eyes ; it causes copious lachrymation and afterwards a sense of coolness in the part. For vomiting, nausea etc., root is well boiled in water, stained off and the drugs ground with a little asafoetida and made into a thin paste and then mixed with ghee. This is given in the morning to stop vomiting etc. A compound powder - Take of Hemidesmus root 5, Andropogon muricatus 4, Nagara 

Other Names :

Tamil

Pulichchi

English

Bimlilatam jute

Telugu

Gogu

Malayalam

Ranjaru

Kannada

Pundi

Hindi

Ambari

Sanskrit

Nalita

It is herbaceous annual plant having prickly stems. Yellow flowers having purple at  centre found in the axils of the leaves. The fruits are capsules which are round and covered with calyx.

Pains, bruises, dysentery, billiousness with acidity.

The crushed seeds are applied externally as a remedy for pains, bruises. Take 10 gm of flower juice mixed with a small quantity of sugar for taste and 4 crushed pepper is a popular remedy for billiouness with acidity.

Other Names :

Tamil

Shamberattai ; Sappattup-pu

English

China or Chinese Rose, Shoe flower

Telugu

Javapushpamu ; Mandara

Malayalam

Dasanige

Kannada

Jasavanda

Hindi

Japa ; Rudhrapushpa

Sanskrit

Champarutti

Hibiscus is a common garden shrub used as hedge plant. It will thrive well in all types of soil. The flower is reddish and has five petals.

Ardor-urinae, strangaury, cystitis, cough, gonorrhoea , laxative, lowers body heat. 

Flowers of this plant fried in ghee are give in menorrhagia ; dark-red petals are administered in the form of a mucilaginpus infusion in ardor-urinae, strangury, cystitis and other irritable conditions of the genito-urinary tract ; it is also a refrigerant drink in fevers and a demulcent in cough.. Combined with milk, sugar and cumin the petals or the fresh root juice of the white flowered variety is given in gonorrhoea. Root is valuable in cough. Flowers pounded into a pulp and mixed with water are given with much benefit in gonorrhoea. Expressed juice of the leaves is also given. An oil made by mixing the juice of the fresh petals and olive oil in equal proportions and boiling till the water has evaporated is equal proportions and boiling still the water has evaporated is useful as a stimulating application for increasing the growth and colour of the hair. In china a black dye is prepared from the petals, for the hair and the eye-brows. In fevers, an infusion of the flowers help to reduce body heat. 

Other Names :

Tamil

English

Telugu

Malayalam

Kannada

Hindi

Sanskrit

It is a small aromatic shrub having yellowish leaf and flower.

Prepare decoction from leaf and flower and is given (65 ml) for the above diseases.

Other Names :

Tamil

Shivanar-vembu

English

Telugu

Malayalam

Shivamalli-gida

Kannada

Hindi

Sanskrit

Manaveli

Commonly present in South India, mostly growing on waste and barren lands. It is a small herb.

Leprosy, cancer, tooth -ache and aphthae.

Leaves, flowers and tender shoots are employed in decoction as a cooling and demulcent drink and in elephantiasis, leprosy and cancer, and as an alternative in secondary syphilis etc. Root is chewed for toothache and aphthae. The whole plant rubber with butter is applied to reduce oedematous tumours. 

Other Names :

Tamil

Neelum ; Nilam ; Aviri ; Avari

English

True Indigo ; Dyer's Indigo

Telugu

Aviri ; Neelichettu ; Neli

Malayalam

Neeli

Kannada

Nili

Hindi

Neela ; Neelinee ; Nilika

Sanskrit

Amari ; Avari

This small erect shrub is cultivated extensively in Northern India, especially in Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Sind, Oudh, Southern India, and Bombay.

Nervous affections, headache, asthma, whooping cough, ulcers.

Leaf Juice is mixed with honey and given in enlargement of the liver and spleen, epilepsy and other nervous affections. In hydrophobia two ounces of fresh juice with an equal quantity of milk is given in the morning for 3 days, as a prophylatic measures ; it might produce slight headache and nothing beyond that. Juice is also given in asthma, whooping cough, palpitation of the heart, in some lung diseases and kidney complaints as in dropsy. Juice of the young branches mixed with honey is a useful application for aphthae of the mouth in children. Powdered indigo also is used for sprinkling on ulcers.

Other Names :

Tamil

Orithazhttamarai

English

Ionidium

Telugu

Ratnayurusha

Malayalam

Sooryakanty

Kannada

Sooryakanty

Hindi

Sooryagandi

Sanskrit

Orrela tanrara

This herb is very small in size and leaves are alternative . Flowers are pinkish-purple colour. Usually present in rainy season.

sexual weakness, vitality to the body.

It can be taken in the form of powder with honey and legiyam for sexual weakness.

Other Names :

Tamil

Elikathilai

English

Telugu

Malayalam

Kannada

Hindi

Sanskrit

Ipomoea is trailing herb has heart shape leaf found in waste and barren land.

Fever, thirstiness, burning sensation.

Put 50 gm. of leaf in one litre of water boil into 500 ml and do filtrate. Give 150 ml tree times three days for fever, thirstyness and burning sensation during urination.