Introduction
Lac is yellow, red and black in colour. Its taste is bland. Lac is a kind of gum, which comes out from trees which have more milk. There is a worm in lac which is red in colour and very small. These worms are responsible for making lac. The milky tree on which these worms are made produces lac from the same tree. Peepal lac is considered the best.
Properties
Lac cleanses the body, removes swellings and removes defects. Lac strengthens the liver and removes heart disease. It removes paralysis, cough, paralysis, respiratory disease and excess of water in the stomach. Lac removes Kanwar, removes kidney weakness. Destroys gas. Increases semen and physical strength. Lac makes the body clean, cool, strong and smooth. Lakh is not hot and it cures diseases like phlegm, bile, hiccups, cough, fever, boils, wounds inside the chest, snake poison, stomach worms and leprosy.
Harmful effects
Mastgi is used to cure the defects of lac.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Formation of boils:
Drinking lac powder mixed with sugar syrup cures cough and stops bleeding in phlegm.
2. Chest wound:
1 gram of pure lac powder should be consumed twice a day with about 4 to 6 grams of honey or 100 to 200 ml of milk or 14 ml of alcohol.
3. Urakshat (Chest wound):
Fry lac in ghee, then place it on the wound and tie a bandage or mix it in oil and apply it. This cures the wound.
4. Menokpar:
Eating lac powder mixed with cow ghee is beneficial in menorrhagia.
Fry lac in ghee or boil it in milk and make powder and keep it. Consuming it in the amount of 3 grams mixed with milk in the morning and evening is beneficial in menorrhagia.
Consuming 1-2 grams of pure lac with about 100-250 milligrams of rice washed water in the morning and evening is beneficial in menorrhagia.
5. Raktapitta:
Grind lac and peepal finely and make a powder. Lick this powder with 1 gram honey 2-3 times. This stops vomiting of blood caused by hemoptysis.
6. Naharua (Syanu):
Grinding lac and desi soap, heating it and applying it on the wound of the patient suffering from Naharua provides relief.
7. Meningitis:
Massaging the entire body with oil extracted from lac provides great relief.
