Introduction Indrayan is a creeper which is found in the sandy areas of entire India. It is grown in the fields. There are 3 types of Indrayan. First is small Indrayan, second is big Indrayan and third is red Indrayan. All the three types of Indrayan bear approximately 50 to 100 fruits. Properties It causes diarrhea, is a cough and bile destroyer and it destroys jaundice, spleen, stomach diseases, asthma, cough, white spots, gas, lump, wound, spermatorrhoea (sperm disorder), goiter (formation of lump in the throat) and poison. These properties are found in both big and small Indrayan. Harmful effects Indrayan should be consumed with great caution. Because consuming it in excess and alone causes stomach cramps and symptoms like poisoning in the body. Treatment for various diseases 1. Blackening of hair: Taking equal quantity of oil of seeds of indrayan with coconut oil and applying it on hair makes hair black. Taking 3 to 5 grams of powder of indrayan root with cow's milk makes hair black. But to avoid this, only milk should be consumed. By cleaning the hair of the head completely and extracting oil from the seeds of indrayan and applying it, black hair grows on the head. By applying oil from seeds of indrayan, white hair becomes black. 2. Deafness (hearlessness): By boiling the ripe fruit of indrayan or its peel in oil and drinking it after filtering, deafness is cured. 3. Tooth worms: By inhaling the smoke of its ripe fruit on the teeth, tooth worms die. 4. Epilepsy: By taking the powder of the root of Indrayan in the nose 3 times a day, epilepsy disease is cured. 5. Cough: Make a hole in the fruit of Indrayan and fill it with black pepper, close the hole and keep it in the sun to dry or let it lie in hot ashes for some time, then consuming black peppercorns with honey and peepal daily for a week gives relief in cough disease. 6. Breast problems: If there is swelling in the breast of women, rubbing the root of Indrayan and applying it gives relief. 7. Stomach ache: Eating the jam of Indrayan cures stomach diseases. Fill black salt and carom seeds in the fruit of Indrayan and dry it in the sun. Taking this carom seeds with warm water relieves the pain during diarrhea. 8. Dysophageal reflux: A patient of cholera should be given 5 grams of pulp of fresh Indrayan fruit with warm water or 2 to 5 grams of its dried pulp with carom seeds. 9. Mutrakrichchh (pain and burning sensation during urination): Grinding the root of Indrayan with water and filtering it and drinking 5 to 10 ml of it relieves the pain and burning sensation during urination. Boil 10 to 20 grams of red Indrayan root, turmeric, myrobalan bark, baheda and amla in 160 ml water and when a fourth of it remains, make a decoction and consume it with honey in the morning and evening. This cures the disease of mutrakrichchh (pain and burning sensation during urination).
10. Blockage of menstruation: When menstruation stops, grind 3 grams of Indravaruni seeds and 5 black peppercorns together, boil them in 200 ml water and make a decoction. Filter this decoction and give it to the patient to drink, the stopped menstruation starts again. Putting the root of Indrayan in the vagina relieves vaginal pain and Pushpavarodh (stopping of menstruation).
11. Intestinal worms:
By heating the pulp of the fruit of Indrayan and tying it on the stomach, all types of intestinal worms die.
12. Purgation (diarrhea inducer):
Boil the fruit marrow of Indrayan in water, filter it, thicken it and make small pills of the size of gram. Taking 1-2 pills of this with cold milk starts clear diarrhea in the morning.
13. Ascites (excess water in the stomach):
Empty the pulp and seeds of the fruit of Colocasia and fill it with goat milk in a cup made of its peel and keep it overnight. In the morning, add a little sugar to this milk and feed it to the patient for a few days, this will cure ascites. Decoction of the root of Colocasia and pulp of the fruit is also beneficial, but it is a strong medicine.
Giving 1 to 3 grams of Colocasia root powder with dry ginger and jaggery in the morning and evening is beneficial. Keep in mind that consuming it in large quantity becomes poisonous and causes harm.
Consuming Colocasia will be beneficial in the disease of enlargement of the stomach due to enlargement of the liver. Consuming the powder of the bark of the root of Colocasia mixed with Sambhar salt cures ascites.
14. Syphilis: Put 100 grams of the root of Colocynth in 500 ml of castor oil and keep it aside for cooking. When some oil is left after cooking, drinking 15 ml of this oil with cow's milk in the morning and evening cures syphilis.
Boil the pieces of the roots of Colocynth in 5 times water. When three parts of water is left after boiling, filter it and mix equal amount of sugar in it and make a syrup and drinking it cures syphilis and rheumatism.
15. Easy delivery:
Grind the root of Colocynth and mix it with cow's ghee and rub it on the vagina to make delivery easily. Soak a cotton swab in the juice of the Colocynth fruit and keep it in the vagina to deliver a child easily. Grind the root of Colocynth finely and mix it with desi ghee and keep it in the vagina to deliver a child easily.
16. Swelling:
Grind the roots of Indrayan in vinegar, heat it and apply it on the swollen area to get rid of the swelling. If there is swelling in the body, grind the roots of Indrayan in vinegar and apply it on the body as a paste to get rid of the swelling.
Grind Indrayan finely and make its powder. Mix 50 grams of coriander in 200 ml of water and make a decoction. After this, mix the powder of Indrayan in this decoction and apply it on the body as a paste to get rid of the swelling.
17. Arthritis (gas in the knees):
Take equal amounts of Indrayan root and peepal powder, mix them in jaggery and consume 10 grams of it daily to get rid of arthritis.
Add 10 grams of turmeric, black salt, bark of big hutlina in 500 ml of Indrayan pulp juice and grind it finely. When the water dries up, make quarter gram tablets. By giving one tablet each morning and evening with milk, swelling and pain gets cured in a few days.
18. Conception (for conception):
By grinding the roots of Indrayan with bael leaves and giving it in the amount of 10-20 grams every morning and evening, a woman conceives.
19. Scorpion Poison:
By eating 6 grams of pulp of Indrayan fruit, the scorpion poison is removed.
20. In case of snake bite:
By eating 3 grams of the powder of the root of big Indrayan in a betel leaf, it gives relief in snake bite.
21. In case of rib movement in children:
In case of rib movement in children, mixing 250 milligrams of rock salt in 1 gram of its root powder and consuming it with warm water three times a day gives relief.
22. Ear wounds:
Grind the red Indrayan fruit and heat it with coconut oil and apply it on the wound inside the ear, it clears the wound and heals it.
23. Headache:
Boil the juice of Indrayan fruit or root bark in sesame oil and apply the oil on the forehead, it cures headache or recurring headache. By boiling the juice of Indrayan fruit or root bark decoction oil, filtering it and using 20 ml of it morning and evening, migraine (half head pain), headache, sinus (chronic cold), earache and hemiplegia are cured.
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