Introduction
Nagkesar is known as Nagpushp, Pushparechan, Pinjar, Kanchan, Phanikesar, Swarghatan. Its colour is yellow. Nagkesar is astringent, dry and light in taste. It is a flower of a tree. Its fragrance is strong.
Properties
It removes heat through purgation (diarrhea). It removes Trisha (thirst), Sweda (sweat), Vaman (vomiting), bad smell, leprosy, fever, itching, phlegm, bile and poison. Nagkesar is beneficial for people with cold nature. It removes obesity and is a blood purifier (cleanses the blood). It makes teeth strong and powerful.
Harmful effects
Nagkesar is hot.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Cough:
Making a decoction of the root and bark of Nagkesar and drinking it provides relief in cough.
In such cough in which there is excessive phlegm, giving about half gram to 1 gram of Nagkesar (yellow Nagkesar) with butter and sugar candy to the patient in the morning and evening cures the cough with excessive phlegm.
2. Anal Pak:
Mix about half gram to 1 gram of Nagkesar (yellow Nagkesar) powder with sugar candy and butter and feed it daily. Eating this relieves the burning sensation (inflammation) of the anus.
3. Prolapse of anus:
Mix about one-fourth of 1 gram of Nagkesar with a guava and feed it to the child. This stops prolapse of anus.
4. Infertility:
Consume 1 gram of Nagkesar (yellow Nagkesar) powder daily with the milk of a cow (with a calf) and if there is no complaint of any other leucorrhoea related disease, then pregnancy will definitely happen. Consuming it regularly till conception definitely leads to success.
5. Conception (to conceive):
Consume approximately 5 grams of powdered Nagkesar with 250 grams of raw milk of a cow with a calf or a black goat in the morning after the menstruation ends for about 7 days. After conception, a son will be born.
6. Hiccups:
Hiccups can be cured by giving 4-10 grams of yellow Nagkesar with butter and sugar candy to the patient in the morning and evening.
7. Prevention of abortion (miscarriage):
If there is a suspicion of abortion in the third month, then Nagkesar powder should be mixed with sugar candy and consumed with milk. This eliminates the possibility of abortion.
8. Piles (hemorrhoids):
Mix equal amounts of Nagkesar and Surma and make a powder. Licking half gram of this powder with 6 grams of honey cures all types of piles.
Mix 6 grams of Nagkesar powder, 10 grams of butter and 6 grams of sugar candy and mix them. Licking this mixture daily for 6 to 7 days stops bleeding due to bloody piles.
9. Bloody diarrhea:
Mix 3 grams of Nagkesar powder with 10 grams of cow butter and eating it reduces the disease of a patient suffering from bloody diarrhea (hemorrhoids).
9. Menstrual problems:
Make powder of Nagkesar, white sandalwood, Pathani Lodhra, Ashok bark in the amount of 10-10 grams each. Then, take 1 spoon of this powder with 1 spoon of fresh water in the morning and evening to get relief from menstrual disorders.
10. Injury:
Nagkesar oil is very useful in body pain and joint pain.
11. Burning in the food pipe:
Mix the root and bark of Nagkesar (yellow Nagkesar) and make a decoction. Take it 2 to 3 times a day as a dose to get relief from gastric irritation.
12. Wound:
Applying Nagkesar oil on the wound heals it quickly.
13. Leucorrhoea:
Consuming 3 grams of Nagkesar powder with fresh water is beneficial in leucorrhoea.
Take about 40 grams of Nagkesar, 30-30 grams of liquorice and resin, 100 grams of sugar candy and grind and filter them to make a powder. Consuming 3-4 grams of this with hot milk mixed with sugar candy in the morning and evening cures all types of leucorrhoea.
Taking about 1 teaspoon of Nagkesar and consuming it with buttermilk every day for 20 days cures white leucorrhoea.
Take 10-10 grams of Nagkesar, white sandalwood, Lodhra and Ashok bark and make powder of all of them. Consuming 1 teaspoon of this powder with fresh water 4 times a day is beneficial in leucorrhoea.
Drinking 3 grams of Nagkesar with buttermilk cures the disease of leucorrhoea.
Consuming Nagkesar powder with rice is beneficial in leucorrhoea.
Grind Nagkesar and make a fine powder and keep it. Consuming it in the quantity of half gram with buttermilk daily cures leucorrhoea. It also increases physical strength.
Consuming half to one gram of yellow Nagkesar with sugar candy and butter in the morning and evening cures both white leucorrhoea and bloody leucorrhoea.
Consuming Nagkesar (Peelanagkesar) in the quantity of half to one gram in the morning and evening cures menorrhagia. This medicine is also beneficial for white leucorrhoea.
Consuming 1-3 grams of Nagkesar powder with 50 ml of rice wash (rice washed water) in the morning and evening provides relief in bloody leucorrhoea.
14. Sheetpitta:
Consuming 5 grams of Nagkesar mixed with honey in the morning and evening is very beneficial in Sheetpitta.
Consuming half a pinch of Nagkesar mixed with 25 grams of honey is beneficial.
15. Nose diseases:
Even severe cold can be cured by applying paste of Nagkesar (yellow Nagkesar) leaves on the head.
16. Semen disease:
2 grams of Nagkesar should be ground and eaten with butter.
17. In case of joint pain (arthritis):
A patient suffering from joint pain gets relief by massaging with Nagkesar oil.
Massage with Nagkesar seeds oil cures arthritis.
18. Cholera:
Big cardamom, rice bran, cloves, yellow Nagkesar, henna, plum kernels, Nagarmotha and white sandalwood - take all these in equal quantity, grind and filter them and make powder. Mix powdered sugar in one part of this powder. Severe vomiting caused due to all three doshas also goes away by licking this powder with honey.
19. Face spots and itching:
Applying yellow Nagkesar oil cures itching.
