Introduction
Berry tree is easily found everywhere. Berry tree has thorns. Berry is equal to betel nut. There are many varieties of Berry . Like-Jangli Berry , Jharber, Pevandi Berry etc. Its tree has very good lac. Its wood is used to make plough, cart etc. Its dried leaves are beneficial for feeding animals. Its one small variety is called Borti in Maharashtra.
Properties
The pulp of Berry is sweet and strength giving and eliminates cough, asthma, thirst, gas, vomiting, burning sensation and bile.
Harmful effects
Berry is a common fruit. Eating it in excess causes cough. Raw Berry should never be eaten.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Blistering:
Grinding Berry leaves and applying them reduces the pain of blisters.
2. Hoarseness (hoarseness):
Keep the root of Berry in the mouth, or roast Berry leaves and eat them with rock salt, this gives relief. Keep a piece of bark of Berry tree in the mouth and suck its juice, the suppressed voice opens up in 2-3 days.
3. Watering from eyes:
By rubbing Berry seeds in water and applying it twice a day for 1-2 months, watering from eyes stops.
4. In case of burning sensation in any part of the body:
By grinding Berry leaves and applying them, burning sensation in any part of the body calms down.
5. Difficulty in urination:
By grinding Berry buds (soft leaves) and cumin seeds, give it to the patient. This helps in easy urination.
6. On throat snake (circle of boils around the throat):
Grate the bark of wild Berry and give it to the patient twice.
7. Bloody diarrhea:
Berry bark should be ground in milk and drunk with honey, this cures dysentery (bloody diarrhea). Berry root and oil should be taken in equal quantity and given with cow or goat milk, this gives relief in dysentery (bloody diarrhea). Eating Berry cures dysentery (bloody diarrhea) disease and intestinal wounds.
8. For chest pain or TB:
20 grams of Berry or peepal bark should be ground in water and mixed with four times pumpkin juice and given to the patient, this gives relief in chest and TB disease.
9. On scorpion poison:
Grind Berry leaves and Udumbara leaves finely and tie them on the sting, giving quick relief. Mix equal quantity of Berry seed kernel and Dhaak seeds and grind in aak milk for 6 hours to make a paste. By rubbing this paste and applying it on the scorpion bite, the poison of the scorpion is removed.
10. Vomiting:
The inside of the Berry seed, the sprout of the banyan tree and the decoction of madhuyisht, honey and sugar should be mixed and drunk, this stops vomiting immediately. Giving 1 gram of the powder of the bark of the Berry root with rice water to the patient twice a day provides relief in vomiting.
11. Diarrhea:
Giving the powder of the leaves of the Berry tree with buttermilk to the patient stops diarrhea. Prepare the decoction of the bark of the Berry tree and keep it, then drinking this decoction in the amount of 20 to 40 ml provides relief in diarrhea. Eating raw Berry also provides relief in diarrhea. Grinding the Berry leaves and consuming half a teaspoon of it and a little kernel of mango seed mixed with it provides relief in diarrhea.
12. Leucorrhea and menorrhagia:
Consuming 5 grams of powder of the bark of the Berry tree with jaggery in the morning and evening cures leucorrhoea and menorrhagia. Consuming the powder of the bark of the chanaplum tree with jaggery or honey is beneficial in leucorrhoea and menorrhagia. Consuming 1-3 grams of the bark powder with jaggery twice a day is beneficial in leucorrhoea and menorrhagia.
13. Menorrhea:
Consuming powder of Berry mixed with jaggery provides relief in menorrhagia. Grinding 10 grams of Berry leaves, 5 black peppercorns and 20 grams of sugar candy and mixing it in 100 ml of water and drinking it is beneficial in menorrhagia.
14. Stoppage of urine:
Mixing soft leaves of the Berry tree and cumin seeds and grinding them in water and making a sherbet like bhang from them and filtering it through a cloth and consuming it helps in clearing the urine blocked due to heat.
15. Small Pox:
Giving juice of Berry leaves with buffalo milk to the patient reduces the speed of the disease. Mixing 6 grams of powder of Berry leaves with 2 grams of jaggery and feeding it to the patient also cures small pox in 2-3 days. Make a decoction of the bark of Berry tree and its leaves and mix it with buttermilk and feed it to animals to cure small pox.
16. In case of mouth disease:
Make a decoction of Berry leaves and gargle with it 2-3 times a day to cure mouth ulcers. If mouth ulcers are caused by consuming any medicine containing camphor, gums have become loose and saliva is dripping from the mouth, then making a decoction of the bark or leaves of Berry tree and gargling with it is beneficial.
17. Boils:
Grinding and heating Berry leaves and tying a bandage of it and changing it repeatedly helps in ripening and bursting of boils quickly.
18. Chronic cough:
Grind about 12 to 24 grams of Berry bark and fry it with ghee and add rock salt to it and consume it three times a day. It is beneficial.
19. Conjunctivitis:
By filtering the extract of Berry seed well and applying it in the eyes, conjunctivitis, eye pain etc. are cured.
20. Sheetala (Masurika) fever:
By feeding the powder of Berry with jaggery to the patient, Vata, Pitta and all types of flatulence are cured immediately.
