Introduction
Siras tree is found in forests all over India. Its trees are found in hilly areas up to a height of 8 thousand feet. It is a shady tree with many leaves. Its tree is of medium size and its branches are spread all around. Its stems are brown in colour, rough and torn. Its inner bark is red, hard and rough and is white in colour in the middle. Its leaves are similar to tamarind leaves but a little bigger. Its flowers are yellow and white in colour which keep giving fragrance. Its fruits are 4 to 12 inches long, flat and thin, which contain 6 to 22 seeds. Siras tree bears flowers in rainy season and fruits in winter season which remain on the trees for a long time. Its fruits and flowers are of different types. Its trees are of three types - black, red and white.
Properties
Siras reduces Vata, Pitta and Kapha. It soothes pain, cures boils, removes the effects of poison and destroys eye diseases. It removes looseness of penis, cures cough, increases semen, destroys leprosy, cures diabetes and cures jaundice.
Treatment of various diseases
1. Cough:
Cough ends by roasting yellow Siras leaves in ghee and taking them 3 times a day.
Make a decoction by mixing 50 grams of Siras seeds in water and consume this decoction every morning and evening. This provides relief from cough.
2. Headache:
Headache starts with sunrise in the morning and gets cured with sunset. In such a headache, 5 fresh flowers of Siras should be wrapped in a wet handkerchief and smelled before sunrise. This cures headache.
Half head ache also occurs due to worsening of cold. In such a case, grind the seeds, bark and flowers of Siras separately and fill it in a bottle. Smelling it daily cures half head ache.
Smelling Siras flowers cures headache.
The patient suffering from headache should grind Siras seeds and radish seeds and smell them. This cures headache and migraine (half head ache).
3. Jaundice:
Grind Siras bark and soak it in water in the amount of 2 teaspoons at night and in the morning filter it and drink it on an empty stomach. It provides relief in jaundice.
4. Stopping of urine:
Grind Siras flower and mix it in a glass of water with 2 teaspoons of sugar candy and drink it to urinate freely.
5. Bloody piles:
Grind Siras seeds finely and mix it in oil and keep it for 4 days. Then heat this oil and filter it and apply it on piles daily. This dries up piles and falls off.
Grind 100 grams of Siras seeds and 50 grams of sugar candy finely and make a powder. Take 2 teaspoons of this powder 4 times a day with cold water. This stops bleeding in piles and also cures piles.
6. Piles:
Grind 6 grams of Siras seeds and 3 grams of Kaliari root with water and apply it on piles to cure piles.
Grind Siras seeds, Kuth, Aak milk, Peepal and rock salt in equal amounts and apply it on piles. This dries up piles.
Grind chicken droppings, Chauntali, turmeric and Peepal in equal amounts with water and apply it on piles to dry up piles.
Take equal quantity of Kaliyari root, Danti root and Cheeta and grind them and apply on piles. This cures piles.
7. For facial beauty:
Grind Siras flowers daily and apply on face to brighten the face. This removes facial marks, spots, pimples etc. Use it for at least 1 month.
8. Toothache:
In case of decay and pain in teeth, grind 100 grams of Siras seeds and 40 grams of black pepper finely and brush your teeth with it daily. This removes toothache and decay. Grind Siras gum and black pepper and brush your teeth with it to stop toothache.
9. Semen weakness:
Take Siras bark and flowers in equal quantity and grind them and consume it in the quantity of 1 spoon every morning and evening with hot milk. Its consumption thickens the semen and increases sexual power. Taking 2 grams of powder of Siras seeds, mixing double the amount of sugar in it and taking it with hot milk every morning and evening increases semen.
10. Itching, Ringworm:
Grind the bark of Siras in water and apply it on ringworm, itching and itching every morning and evening, it cures itching and ringworm. Grind the flowers of Siras and mix one spoon in any sherbet and drink it, it purifies the blood and cures all skin diseases. Grind the seeds of Siras and apply it like sandalwood, it cures itching.
11. Vomiting:
Mix 1 spoon of powder of Siras seeds in 1 cup of water, boil it and add 1 spoon of honey to it and give it to the patient to drink every half an hour. This stops vomiting.
12. Swelling of testicles:
Grind the bark of Siras and apply it, it ends swelling of testicles.
13. Fainting:
Take equal quantity of Siras seeds and black pepper and grind them with goat's urine and apply it in the eyes like kajal. This removes unconsciousness caused due to typhoid fever.
14. Weakness:
Mix 1 to 3 grams of Siras bark powder with ghee and eat it every morning and evening, it increases physical strength and cleans the blood of the body.
15. Weakness:
Mixing 1 to 3 grams of powder of Siras bark with ghee and eating it every morning and evening increases physical strength and purifies the blood of the body.
16. Epilepsy or Insanity:
Grinding Siras seeds and Karanja seeds and applying it on the head cures insanity caused due to heat. It also provides relief from epileptic seizures and eye diseases.
17. Burns due to fire:
Rubbing Siras leaves on the burnt part of the body soothes the burning sensation.
