Introduction
Senna is astringent in taste and hot in nature. It removes mucus and stool with diarrhea. It cleanses the head. It is beneficial in breathing problems, cough, itching, arthritis, tingling in hands and feet and colic. Using senna with gulkand also cures cold. Consuming senna with honey increases strength. Consuming it with ghee gives relief from pain. Consuming senna with sugar cures lethargy and chest pain. Consuming senna with curd soothes poison. Consuming senna with sugar candy brings agility.
Consuming senna with water makes the body healthy. Consuming senna with cow's milk produces new blood. Eating senna with cinnamon improves eyesight. Eating senna with dates eliminates bad breath. Taking senna with tamarind juice cures chest pain. Taking senna with pomegranate juice clears the stomach. Taking senna with warm water cures ear, nose and head diseases. Grind 40 grams of senna and 10 grams of Indian gooseberry and filter it. Make pea-sized tablets with water and dry them in the shade. Consume 1 tablet each in the morning and evening. This cures cough and asthma. Taking senna with ginger cures indigestion.
Properties
Senna is beneficial in stool-related problems, poor digestion, liver, stomach related problems, indigestion, mild fever, jaundice, etc.
Treatment of various diseases
1. Sannipaat fever:
Grind 20 grams of senna and 20 grams of black salt and filter it. Taking 5-5 grams of this powder with warm water in the morning and evening is beneficial in typhoid fever.
2. Breathlessness or Asthma:
Consuming powder of senna and clove is very useful in asthma.
Grinding equal quantity of Sonamukhi (Senna) and taking 5 grams of it with water in the morning and evening is beneficial in asthma.
Gas problems: Grind 20 grams of senna, 40 grams of suranjan and dry ginger, 10-10 grams of netrawala, white cumin and peepal and filter it. Mixing this powder in honey and taking 1-1 gram of it in the morning and evening is beneficial in gas problems.
3. In case of constipation:
Prepare powder of 50 grams of senna leaves, 100 grams of fennel and 20 grams of sugar candy and keep it. Then eating this 10 gram powder with warm water gives relief in constipation (gas in the stomach).
Grind 15 gram senna, 15 gram dry ginger, 15 gram fennel and 15 gram rock salt together and filter it. Before going to bed at night, put this powder in lukewarm water, mash it and filter it, add sugar to it and drink it, it gives relief in constipation (gas in the stomach).
Grind 20 gram senna leaves and make powder. Grind 30 gram seedless raisins in this powder. Do not add water to it, make small pills of this mixture. Eating these 2 pills at night with milk or water removes constipation (gas in the stomach).
Mixing 6 gram senna, 6 gram jagi harad, 6 gram nishoth and 6 gram raisins and drinking 10 gram sugar candy with milk starts diarrhea and the stomach gets cleaned. Keep in mind that in the evening, eat only rice and curd.
Taking approximately one-fourth gram of powder of senna leaves with cloves and liquorice at night helps in easy bowel movement in the morning. Keep in mind that it should not be given in diseases like spastic constipation or irritable colon.
4. In case of amoebic rakt (dysentery):
Make powder by taking senna leaves, triphala and black salt in equal quantity. Mix lemon juice in this powder and make a tablet. Taking 1 tablet in the morning and evening cures the disease of the patient suffering from dysentery.
5. In case of indigestion:
Grind senna leaves, dry ginger, big myrobalan, fennel, amla very finely and make powder and filter it in a cloth. Taking this powder with 2 teaspoons of warm water before meals daily is beneficial in indigestion.
6. Diarrhea:
Drinking decoction of senna clears diarrhea. Eating powder of senna, fennel, dry ginger, rock salt, harad causes diarrhea and clears the stomach.
7. Inflammation and burning sensation inside the stomach:
Grinding senna in goat's urine and drinking it provides relief from stomach inflammation.
