Introduction Bathua is of two types, the one whose leaves are large and red in colour. It is called God Vastuk and the one which grows in barley fields is called Shaak. Thus, Bathua is of two types according to the difference in its leaves being small, large, red and green. Bathua plants are 1 hand to 4 hands high. Its leaves are thick, smooth and green in colour. Big Bathua leaves are large and become red in colour when they become strong. Bathua plants grow on their own in wheat and barley fields. Its flowers are green.
Black coloured seeds come out of it. Bathua is a famous vegetable. Iron, mercury, gold and alkali are found in it. It prevents stone formation. It makes the stomach strong. If you want to cure liver enlarged due to heat, then use Bathua. The more you eat Bathua greens, the more beneficial it is. If you add minimum spices and salt to Bathua greens or do not add salt at all and eat it, it is beneficial. If you need to make it tasty, add rock salt and temper it with cow or buffalo ghee. Boiled water of Bathua tastes good and raita made in curd is also tasty. Bathua should be eaten every day in any form. Parathas of Bathua are also made which are more tasty and it is also eaten by cooking it in urad dal. Bathua is a semen enhancer. Properties Bathua is easily digested, it produces blood. People with hot temperament are very beneficial with it. It quenches thirst. The juice of its leaves breaks the lumps, it brings thirst, digests swellings and dissolves stones. Both big and small types of bathua are full of alkali. It calms all the three doshas viz. vata, pitta and kapha (phlegm). It is very beneficial for the eyes, sweet, laxative and increases appetite. It is anti-colic, purifies the excreta, makes the voice good and clean, is heavy in smooth cooking and calms all types of diseases. Chilli or red bathua is better than both of these in qualities. Red bathua is similar to all the qualities of bathua. Bathua eliminates kapha (phlegm) and bile. It suppresses diabetes and is very beneficial in urine and gonorrhea. Treatment of various diseases 1. In stomach diseases: As long as bathua vegetable is available, eat its vegetable daily. Drink boiled water of bathua. It cures all types of stomach diseases like liver disease, spleen, indigestion (chronic constipation), gas, worms, pain, hemorrhoids and stones etc. 2. Stones: By mixing sugar in 1 glass of raw bathua juice and drinking it daily, stones dissolve and come out. 3. Constipation: Bathua gives strength to the stomach and removes constipation. It cleans the stomach. Therefore, people suffering from constipation should eat bathua greens daily. By eating bathua greens continuously for a few weeks, chronic constipation is cured. 4. Lice: Boil bathua leaves in hot water, filter it and cool it down and wash the head thoroughly with the same water, the hair will become clean and the lice will also die. By boiling bathua and washing the head with this water, lice die and the head also becomes clean.
5. Blockage of menstruation: Boil 2 teaspoons of bathua seeds in 1 glass of water. When half the water is left after boiling, filter it and drink it to stop the blocked menstruation. 6. Swelling of eyes: Eating bathua greens daily removes swelling of the eyes. 7. Boils: Grind bathua, add dry ginger and salt to it, tie it in a wet cloth, apply wet mud on the cloth and bake it on fire. After baking, tie it on the boil, with this use the boil will subside or will ripen and burst quickly. 8. Burning sensation: Repeatedly applying raw bathua juice on the burnt part soothes the burning sensation. 9. Kidney diseases: Eating bathua greens is beneficial in kidney diseases. If the urine comes intermittently or drop by drop, then drinking bathua juice helps in passing urine freely. 10. Abortion: Boil 20 bathua seeds in about 200 ml of water. After this, when one-fourth of it is left, drinking it causes abortion. 11. Diarrhea: Make a decoction by boiling bathua leaves in about 1 liter of water, then take it in the amount of 2 spoons, add a little sugar to it and drink 1 spoon daily in the morning and evening, it gives relief in diarrhea. 12. Dysmenorrhoea (painful menstruation): Boil 5 grams of bathua seeds in 200 ml of water for a long time. When it boils and the quantity of water remains 100 ml, filter it and drink it to prevent the pain during menstruation. 13. Hemorrhoids: Boiled Bathua and drinking its water cures piles. 14. Liver disease: By consuming Bathua, buttermilk, litchi, pomegranate, blackberries, beetroot, plums, liver gets strength and constipation also gets cured. 15. Burning of stomach: By eating Bathua, the patient gets strength to fight stomach diseases. 16. For acidity: By grinding Bathua seeds and making powder and drinking 2 grams of it with honey, the dirt of stomach gets cleaned and it expels bile. 17. Labor pain: Boil 20 grams of bathua seeds in water, filter it and give it to a pregnant woman to drink, this will reduce the pain during childbirth.
Take 50 grams of bathua seeds and boil them in about half a kilo of water. When this water is reduced to 250 ml, it should be consumed. By consuming it regularly for three days, menstruation starts coming regularly.
19. All types of stomach diseases:
Eating bathua vegetable according to the season cures stomach diseases like liver, spleen, gas, indigestion, worms and piles.
20. Spleen enlargement:
Boil bathua and drink its boiled water or drink raw bathua juice by adding salt to it, the disease of enlargement of spleen is cured.
21. Nosebleed:
Drinking 4-5 spoons of bathua juice is beneficial in the disease of nosebleed.
22. Itching:
Boil bathua daily, squeeze it and extract its juice, drink it and eat the vegetable. Washing the skin with this water also provides relief in itching.
Mix 4 parts of raw bathua juice and 1 part of sesame oil and heat it. When the water evaporates and only oil remains, massage with that oil to get rid of itching.
23. Heart disease:
Select the red leaves of bathua and extract about half a cup of its juice. Adding rock salt to this juice and consuming it provides relief in heart diseases.
24. Jaundice:
Grind 100 grams of bathua seeds and filter it. Consuming half a spoon of powder with water every morning for 15-16 days cures jaundice.
25. In case of ringworm disease:
Boil bathua, squeeze it and drink its juice and eat its vegetable. Wash the skin with boiled water. Grind raw bathua leaves, squeeze it and extract its juice. Mix half cup of sesame oil in 2 cups of juice and cook on low flame. When the juice burns and only oil is left, filter the oil and fill it in a bottle and apply it for a long time in skin diseases, it cures all skin diseases including ringworm, itching.
26. Formation of boils:
Grind bathua, dry ginger and salt together and tie its paste in a wet cloth and apply clay paste on it and put it on fire and bake it. Then open it and tie it on the boils while it is still hot. This will reduce the pain of boils and the pus will come out.
27. In case of burns:
Sprinkle water on bathua leaves and grind them. Apply on the burnt parts of the body. This will relieve the burning sensation and also end the pain. In case of burning of any part of the body, grind bathua leaves and apply on the burnt part. This will relieve the burning sensation.
