Introduction
Wild or cultivated plants of Asgandh are found throughout India, especially in dry regions, up to a height of 5,500 feet. Cultivated plants are better in quality than its wild plants, but only wild plants are useful for oil etc. It has been described as of many types depending on the country, but on crushing the real Asgandh plant, it smells like horse urine, which is relatively more in its fresh root.
Properties
It is a cough reliever, strength enhancer, chemical, aphrodisiac, nerve strengthener and increases digestive power.
Harmful effects
Use of Ashwagandha in excess quantity is harmful for those with hot nature.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Gandmala:
Mix old jaggery with new soft leaves of asangdha and grind them to make pills of the size of plum. Swallow one pill with stale water in the morning and grind asgandha leaves and apply on the gandmala.
2. Heartache:
In heart disease caused due to Vata, taking 2 grams of asgandha powder with warm water is beneficial. Mixing equal amount of baheda powder in asgandha powder and taking 5-10 grams of it with jaggery relieves the Vata pain related to the heart.
3. Tuberculosis (T.B.):
Consuming 2 grams of asangdha powder with 20 ml decoction of asgandha is beneficial in tuberculosis. Consuming 2 gm Asgandh root powder mixed with 1 gm Big Peepal powder, 5 gm Ghee and 10 gm Honey cures Tuberculosis (T.B.).
4. Cough:
Grind 10 gm Asgandh (Ashwagandha) root, add 10 gm Mishri and cook it in 400 ml water, when 8th part is left, drink it little by little, it gives special benefit on whooping cough or Vata-induced cough.
Mix 40 ml decoction of Asgandh leaves, 20 gm Baheda powder, 10 gm Catechu powder, 50 gm Black Pepper, about 3 gm Rock Salt and make pills of about half gm. Sucking these pills cures all types of cough. It is also beneficial in T.B. cough.
5. Pregnancy:
Cook 20 grams of Ashwagandha powder, 1 liter of water and 250 ml of cow milk on low flame and when only milk is left, add 6 grams of sugar candy and 6 grams of cow ghee to it and consume it for 3 days after 3 days of purification bath during menstruation, the woman will definitely conceive.
By mixing Ashwagandha powder in cow ghee and consuming it daily after menstruation bath with cow milk or fresh water in the amount of 4-6 grams continuously for 1 month, the woman will definitely conceive.
By mixing four times ghee in the decoction and pulp of Ashwagandha root and cooking and consuming it, the Vata disease is cured and the woman will conceive.
6. Abortion:
In case of repeated abortions, consuming 10-10 ml juice of Ashwagandha and white kateeri root for the first 5 months, there will be no premature abortion and consuming it at the time of abortion stops the pregnancy.
7. Menorrhagia and Leucorrhea:
Mixing equal quantity of sugar candy in Ashwagandha powder and mixing 1 spoon each in cow milk and taking it morning and evening is beneficial.
8. Worm disease (intestinal worms):
Mixing equal quantity of Giloy powder in its powder and taking 5-10 grams regularly with honey is beneficial.
9. In arthritis (joint pain):
Crushing the Panchang (root, leaves, stem, fruit and flower) of Ashwagandha, filtering it and consuming 25 to 50 grams cures joint pain (arthritis). In arthritis, boil 30 grams of fresh leaves of Ashwagandha in 250 ml water and when half the water remains, filter it and drink it. By drinking it for 1 week, the patient who is stuck in arthritis and crying due to pain gets completely cured and its paste is also very beneficial.
Taking 2 grams of Ashwagandha powder with warm milk and water in the morning and evening gives relief to arthritis patients.
Mixing three grams of Ashwagandha powder in three grams of ghee and adding one gram of sugar and taking it in the morning and evening cures arthritis. Take 15 grams of Ashwagandha buds or tender leaves and boil them in 200 ml of water. When the leaves melt or become soft, filter it and drink it hot for three to four days. This also cures cough caused by phlegm.
10. Back pain:
Licking 2-5 grams of Ashwagandha powder with cow ghee or sugar gives relief in back pain and sleeplessness.
Take equal amounts of Asgandh and dry ginger and make their powder. Consume half a teaspoon of this powder with water in the morning and evening. This gives relief from back pain.
Weakness can be cured by consuming 1 teaspoon of powder made by grinding Asgandh and Safed Musli in equal quantity with milk every day.
By mixing 1 teaspoon of Asgandh powder in honey in the morning and evening and drinking a glass of milk on top, the weakness of the body is cured.
11. Impotence:
Mix the fine powder of Ashwagandha sieved through a cloth and sugar in equal amounts. Consume it with 1 teaspoon of fresh cow milk 3 hours before breakfast in the morning. Eat this powder pinch by pinch and drink milk on top. By mixing its fine powder well in jasmine oil and applying it at night, the laxity of the penis is cured and it becomes hard and firm.
Grind equal quantities of Ashwagandha, cinnamon and bitter gourd, filter it and mix it with cow butter. Rub 5-10 grams of this mixture on the penis, leaving out the glans, in the morning and evening. Wash the penis with warm water before and after applying it.
12. Weakness:
By consuming asgandh as prescribed for one year, the body becomes disease-free. By consuming it only in winters, even a weak person becomes strong. Old age is removed and youth is attained.
By taking 10-10 grams of asgandh powder, sesame and ghee and mixing three grams of honey and consuming it daily in winters, a weak child becomes fat.
6 grams of ashwagandha powder, mix equal quantity of sugar candy and honey in it and add 10 grams of cow ghee in it, by consuming this mixture in the morning and evening for four months in winters, even an old person remains happy like a young man.
20 grams of ashwagandha powder, twice as much sesame, and eight times as much black gram i.e. 140 grams, grind all three finely and make balls out of it and eat up to one gram fresh.
Take equal quantity of ashwagandha powder and chiraita and keep it in a mortar (grind it). Eat this powder in the amount of 10-10 grams with milk in the morning and evening.
By adding one-fourth gram of sugar candy to one gram of Ashwagandha powder and consuming it with boiled milk, semen is strengthened and strength increases.
13. Blood disorder:
Take 4 grams of Chopchini and finely ground powder of Ashwagandha in equal quantity. By licking it regularly with honey in the morning and evening, blood disorder is cured.
14. Fever:
By mixing five grams of this powder and four grams of Giloy bark powder and eating them with hot water every evening, chronic fever is cured.
15. In all types of diseases:
By mixing one-fourth gram of Giloy powder with 5 grams of Ashwagandha powder and licking it with honey, all types of diseases are cured.
16. Removing infertility:
Take equal amounts of asgandh, nagkesar and gorochana and grind them. If consumed with cold water, pregnancy is achieved.
Take 50 grams of asgandh and nagouri and grind them and pass through a cloth. When the woman becomes pure after taking a bath after menstruation, consume 10 grams of it. After that, if she has intercourse with the man, this will remove infertility and the woman will become pregnant.
17. Conception:
Mixing milk and ghee in the decoction of asgandh and feeding it for 7 days will definitely make the woman pregnant. 3 to 6 grams of asgandh powder should be consumed 4 days before the onset of menstruation. This helps in conception.
Grind 100 grams of asgandh coarsely and soak 20 grams of it in 200 ml water at night. Boil it in the morning. When one-fourth remains, filter it and mix one spoon of ghee in 200 ml of lukewarm sweet milk and use it continuously for 5 days from the first day of menstruation.
18. Diarrhea:
Make a decoction by taking out asgandh, cinnamon, nagarmotha, barahi fruit, dhay flowers and bark of kuda (koraiya), then drinking 20 to 40 ml of this decoction stops diarrhea during fever and provides relief.
19. Menstrual disorders:
Grind asgandh in the amount of 35 grams and filter it. Add 35 grams of sugar in it. Its 10 grams should be consumed with water on an empty stomach about a week before the start of menstruation. When menstruation starts, its consumption should be stopped. This eliminates all menstrual disorders.
20. Leucorrhoea:
Consuming 3 grams of equal quantity of powder of asgandh and shatawar with fresh water is beneficial in leucorrhoea. Consuming asgandh powder with milk in the morning and evening for a few days cures leucorrhoea. Grinding asgandh, vidhara, lodhra pathani in the amount of 25-25 grams and filtering it and consuming 5-5 grams with raw milk in the morning and evening gives relief in leucorrhoea. Consuming 5-10 grams of asgandh, nagouri powder with ghee in the morning and evening gives relief in leucorrhoea.
