Introduction Peepal trees are planted all over India and also grow on their own. Peepal leaves fall in the month of March and in the summer season it bears fruits, which ripen in the rainy season. Lakha (lac, chapra) is also obtained from old Peepal trees. Peepal releases oxygen in the air and absorbs poisonous carbon dioxide. Peepal is very cool. Due to the many supernatural properties of Peepal tree, Hindu people consider it very holy and worship it. Burning Peepal wood is prohibited among Hindus. Peepal fruits are small. Peepal trees are planted around temples and on roads for shade. The shade of Peepal is health-enhancing. Properties Peepal is beneficial in diseases like digestion, semen enhancer (increases sperm count), sweet-chemical, wind-phlegm reliever, light, laxative, asthma, cough, fever, leprosy, spermatorrhoea (semen disorder), piles, spleen pain and rheumatism. It resumes the flow of urine and menstruation, prevents miscarriage. Removes heart diseases. Destroys worm diseases. Paste of Peepal bark removes swellings, is beneficial for canker sores and heals wounds. Drinking dried Peepal leaves mixed in water stops nausea and vomiting. Using the bark of Peepal root thickens the semen and strengthens the waist. Drinking 6 grams of powder of the roots of Peepal tree with 5 black peppers after grinding and filtering it and making a tablet of this and applying it on white leprosy cures white leprosy. Harmful effects Using Peepal in excess quantity can cause headache. Treatment for various diseases 1. To clear the voice of children: Feeding ripe fruits of Peepal to the child clears the voice of the child. 2. To clear the voice of children: By making ash of dry bark of Peepal and applying it on boils, the boils dry up and get cured. 3. Vomiting: Dissolving the ash of dry wood of Peepal in water and feeding it to the patient several times, stops hiccups and vomiting immediately. If a patient vomits and feels excessive thirst, burn the bark of Peepal in fire and put it in 1 glass of water. Then filter that water and drink 20-20 ml of it, it reduces both vomiting and thirst. 4. To clear blood clot in thigh: By grinding Peepal leaves and stems and giving their juice with honey to the patient, the blood clot in thigh is cleared.
In case of mouth ulcers in children, grind fresh Peepal leaves and bark finely and feed them with honey in small quantities 3 times a day, it cures mouth ulcers.
Gargling with decoction of Peepal bark in the morning and evening and applying bark powder mixed with honey on ulcers gives relief from ulcers.
Grind small Peepal finely and mix it with honey and rub it on tongue and let saliva come out. This cures mouth ulcers.
6. Opium poison:
By giving decoction of Peepal bark to the patient, opium poison is removed.
7. Wounds, cough and chest wound:
Giving powder of lac of Peepal tree with honey and ghee is beneficial.
8. Breast diseases:
Burn Peepal bark and mix it in water, later heat a piece of iron repeatedly and put it in it. Give this water to the patient to drink in the morning and evening and rubbing the root of Indravaruna in water and applying it on the breasts of a woman cures breast diseases.
9. Hiccups:
Hiccups stop by licking 1 gram powder of Peepal tree with honey or sugar.
Dissolve the bark of Peepal tree in water and leave it for some time. Then filter its water and drink it, hiccups are cured.
Hiccups stop by drinking the extinguished water of coal of Peepal tree bark.
Hiccups stop by eating Peepal powder mixed with sugar. Taking Peepal powder with honey for a few days is beneficial in hiccups.
Grind Peepal, dry ginger, amla together and make a powder and mix it with honey and lick it. This prevents hiccups.
Take equal quantity of powder of Choti Peepal, Amla, dry ginger. Add honey-ghee as per your wish and consume it to get relief from hiccups.
Mixing Choti Peepal powder with 5 grams of honey and licking it is beneficial in hiccups.
Taking Choti Peepal powder and sugar powder in equal quantity and smelling it, eliminates hiccups.
Mixing 5 grams of Choti Peepal powder with 6 grams of honey and licking it, eliminates hiccups.
Grind 10-10 grams of Choti Peepal, Amla, Ajwain, dry ginger together finely. Then mixing 3-3 grams of it in honey in the morning and evening and licking it is beneficial in hiccups.
Burn the bark of Peepal tree and cool it in water and grind it in sour substance and apply it on the chest to stop hiccups.
Mix 1 gram of powder of lac of Peepal tree in honey and make the patient lick it to get rid of hiccups.
Mix 50-100 grams of Peepal tree bark in water extinguished with coal and drink it to get rid of hiccups.
10. Bloody diarrhea:
Take soft stem of Peepal tree, coriander and sugar in equal quantity and keep them in mouth and chew them with teeth and swallow its juice in throat to get relief from bloody diarrhea.
Mix soft branches of Peepal tree, coriander seeds and sugar candy in equal quantity and consume 3-4 grams daily in the morning and evening to get relief from bloody diarrhea.
11. Loss of appetite:
Consuming ripe fruits of Peepal tree cures phlegm, bile, blood disorders, poison, burning sensation, vomiting and loss of appetite.
12. Urine disorder:
Giving decoction or extract of Peepal bark to the patient cures dysuria (pain or burning sensation while urinating).
13. Syphilis (stool-related disorder):
Sprinkling 50 grams of dry bark ash of Peepal stem on syphilis cures syphilis wounds.
14. Stomach ache:
Grind 3 soft Peepal leaves finely and mix them with jaggery to make small tablets. Consuming 1 tablet each in the morning and evening as a dose cures stomach ache.
15. Grind Peepal leaves, add rock salt and drink it. 15. Tuberculosis (T.B.):
Mixing powder of lac of Peepal with ghee and honey and giving it to the patient cures TB.
Mixing 500 ml of water in 500 ml of goat milk and adding 3 Peepal in it and boil it. When the water evaporates, take out the Peepal from it and eat it. Then drink lukewarm milk on top. For 10 days, add 1 Peepal in the milk and from the 11th day onwards, keep reducing 1 Peepal. Bring it to 3 Peepal and then stop.
16. Boils of children:
Boils are cured by rubbing Peepal bark and brick in water and applying it on boils of children.
17. Blueheads:
In Blueheads disease, making a decoction of Peepal bark and giving it to the patient is beneficial.
18. When worms get into the wounds of pets:
By adding Peepal bark to roti and feeding it to pets, their wounds heal and the worms in them die.
19. Hanugraha (disease that immobilizes the mouth):
Mixing Peepal bark juice in water and adding Peepal powder to it and giving it to the patient is beneficial.
20. Raktapitta (bloody bile):
Mixing 10 grams Peepal leaf juice in 60 grams Heera Bol (a type of gum) with 2 times the amount of honey and feeding it, destroys the blood clogged inside the heart.
Mix Peepal powder and sugar candy in equal amounts and keep it aside. Then taking 1 spoon of it 3 times a day with cold water, gives relief from bloody bile in a few days.
