Introduction
Cloves are produced in large quantities in Zanzibar and Malacca Island. Clove trees are very large. They bear fruits only after eight or nine years of planting. Its colour is black. It is an aromatic spice. It is added to food for flavour. Cloves are of two types. One with a strong fragrance and the other blue in colour, whose oil is extracted by machines. Cloves that are strong in fragrance, sharp in taste and have a feeling of oil when pressed should be considered good. Clove oil is heavier than water. Its colour is red. Clove oil is used to make cigarette tobacco fragrant. Clove oil is also used as a medicine. Applying its oil on the skin destroys skin worms.
Properties
According to Ayurvedic opinion, clove is pungent, light, beneficial for eyes, cool, improves digestion, digestive and tasty. It cures thirst, hiccups, cough, blood disorders, TB etc. Clove is used in excessive salivation, pain and various diseases. It is also beneficial in toothache. According to Unani system of medicine: Clove is dry, stimulant and hot. Eating it causes headache. It increases digestion power. It strengthens teeth and gums. Grinding it and massaging removes poison. According to scientific opinion: Clove is hot. It is considered to cure stomach pain. Pregnant women get relief by soaking clove in hot water and drinking its water when they vomit. The effect of massage with its oil is similar to that of normal camphor oil. Its infusion is made and aromatic substances are prepared from it. Artificial vanilla essence found in food items like cocoa, chocolate, ice cream etc. is prepared from cloves.
Harmful effects
Eating too much cloves can damage the kidneys and intestines.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Unconsciousness:
Unconsciousness is cured by rubbing cloves and applying them as eye ointment.
Unconsciousness due to hysteria is cured by grinding cloves in ghee or milk and applying them to the eyes.
2. Cold:
Cold is cured by drinking clove decoction.
Cold is cured by taking 2 drops of clove oil and mixing it with 25-30 grams of sugar.
Cold is cured by putting clove oil on a handkerchief and smelling it.
Boil 3 cloves in 100 ml water. When half the water is left after boiling, add a little salt to it and drink it. Cold is cured.
Cold is cured by eating 2 cloves with betel leaf.
3. Night blindness:
Night blindness is cured by grinding 1 clove with goat milk and applying it slowly in the eyes like Surma.
4. Fever:
Grind 1 clove and swallow it with hot water. Doing this 3 times a day cures normal fever.
5. Eruption in the eyes:
If there is an eruption in the eyes, rub clove and apply it to get rid of it.
6. Dental diseases:
If there is a cavity in the teeth, then keeping clove in the hollow of the tooth or applying clove oil is beneficial.
Soak cotton in clove oil and keep it under the aching tooth and let the saliva fall down.
Toothache is cured by roasting clove on fire and keeping it in the cavity of the teeth.
Mixing camphor powder in clove oil and applying it on the aching teeth gives relief from pain.
Grind 5 cloves and squeeze lemon juice in it and rub it on teeth to get relief from toothache or boil 5 cloves in 1 glass of water and gargle with it 3 times a day to get relief.
7. Gynecological diseases:
Take 5 grams of cloves, nutmeg and peepal, mix 20 grams of black pepper and 160 grams of dry ginger and make a powder. Later add sugar equal to the same amount to the powder and eat it. This ends cough, fever, lack of appetite, gonorrhoea, respiratory disease and excessive diarrhea.
8. Dry or wet cough:
Take two-three cloves in the mouth in the morning and evening and keep sucking the juice. Fry cloves or Vibhitak fruit marrow in ghee. Suck it when you have cough, it gives relief in dry cough.
Grind cloves and pomegranate peel in equal amounts, then take a quarter spoon of it and lick it with half a spoon of honey 3 times a day. This cures cough.
9. Loss of appetite:
Half a gram of clove powder should be licked with 1 gram of honey every morning. Within a few days, the appetite starts improving.
10. Vomiting of pregnant women:
In case of vomiting of pregnant women, 1 gram of clove powder should be given with pomegranate juice.
In case of nausea in pregnant women, licking clove powder with honey repeatedly relieves all the problems like nausea, vomiting etc. It should be licked twice a day in a quantity of 120 grams to 240 grams.
Grind one gram of clove and mix it with honey and lick it 3 times a day in pregnant women, vomiting stops.
11. Feeling very thirsty in fever:
Put four cloves in some water and boil the water, when half is left, drinking it repeatedly cures the fever.
12. Stomach ache and white diarrhea:
Licking clove powder with honey is beneficial.
13. If the tongue is cut:
If the tongue is cut after eating paan, then putting a clove in the mouth will help in healing the tongue.
14. Headache:
Grind cloves and apply paste to get rid of headache instantly. Its oil can also be applied or grind 5 cloves and mix them in 1 cup of water and heat it. When half is left, filter it and add sugar and drink it. Headache is cured by consuming it twice in the evening and before sleeping.
Grind 6 grams of cloves in water, heat it and apply a thick paste on the temples to get rid of headache.
Apply clove oil on the head and forehead or put it in the nostrils on both sides of the nose. This cures headache.
Grind about 480 milligrams of opium with 2 to 3 cloves in water, heat it and apply it on the head to get rid of headache caused by wind and cold.
Giving 1 or 2 grams of cloves and cinnamon with the pulp of manphal cures headache. It should not be given in large quantities to a patient suffering from headache because taking it in large quantities can cause vomiting in the patient.
Take about 5 cloves and grind them in a cup of water and heat it. When half a cup of water remains, filter it and add sugar. Drinking this two to four times in the morning and evening cures headache.
15. Stomach gas:
Grind 2 cloves and put them in half a cup of boiling water. Then drink it when it cools down a bit. Doing this 3 times a day will give relief from stomach gas.
Put 2 cloves in half a cup of water and boil it. Then cool it and drink it.
16. Acidity:
Due to acidity, digestion power remains bad. Teeth start falling even before old age. Eyes start hurting and cold keeps on recurring. In this way, many diseases are caused by acidity. Tea is very harmful for a patient of acidity. In this condition, eating one clove each in the morning and evening after having food or taking it in sherbet is beneficial in all the diseases caused by acidity and cures acidity. Or make the patient consume 15 grams of green Indian gooseberry juice mixed with 5 crushed cloves, 1 teaspoon each of honey and sugar. Eating this 3 times a day in the morning, afternoon and evening gives relief in a few days.
Eating one clove each in the morning and evening after having food brings relief. Sucking cloves in the form of a tablet after having food ends the complaint of acidity in the stomach.
17. Cancer:
A patient suffering from canker sores gets cured by grinding cloves and turmeric and applying it.
18. Cholera:
By making clove water and giving it to the patient, thirst and vomiting are reduced and urine also comes freely.
Giving 2-3 drops of clove oil in sugar or batasha is beneficial in vomiting and diarrhea of cholera. Consuming its oil relieves stomach pain, flatulence, gas and vomiting.
19. Bile fever:
Grind 4 cloves, mix them in water and give it to the patient to drink, it reduces high fever.
21. Enteric fever (Typhoid):
Giving clove water to drink is beneficial in this. Boil 5 cloves in 2 kg water and filter it when half the water remains. Give this water to the patient several times a day. Even boiling just water, cooling it and giving it to drink is beneficial.
