GORAKH MUNDI - गोरखमुंडी - ASTERACEAE - SPHAERANTHUS INDICUS
Asteraceae plants are found in Himachal Pradesh. Mostly, its plant grows in the rice’s field and humid forests. Its flowers appear in the winter season and thereafter fruits appear on this tree.
Name In Different Languages:
English Name : East Indian Globe-thistle
Hindi Name : Gorakh Mundi, Mundi
Urdu Name : Gule Mundi
Punjabi Name : Gorakhmundi
Sanskrit Name : Mundika, Mundtika, Mundi
Structure: Asteraceae is a type of fitted with an umbrella (chhatedar) grass. Its fruits and flowers are round like pea’s seed.
Asteraceae plant is bushy and 1-3 feet high or spreads on the earth. Its stem is 1-2 inch high and strong. Its branch is soft, hairy and the shape is like pipe. Its flowers are small and purple.
Qualities:
Asteraceae is purgative and increases the body strength. It is useful for the treatment of throat tumour, scrofula, indignation, vatta, obesity, insanity, spleen disorders, elephantiasis,dysentery, anorexia, vagina pain, cough, piles, anuria-dysuria, night fall, epilepsy, leprosy and alleviates poisoning. It kills stomach worms and brings phlegm out.
Useful in various diseases :
1. Headache:
Take ¼ parts powder of black peppers with 3-5 ml juice of asteraceae twice a day, it provides relief in migraine, which occurs during sunrise and sunset.
2. Eye diseases:
- Take one asteraceae on empty stomach in the morning for one week regularly; any diseases do not occur in the eyes for one year.
- Chew 4-5 fresh fruit of asteraceae and swallow it with water in April month, it increases eyesight.
3. Stomach worms:
Take ground seeds of asteraceae; it ends the stomach worms and brings out with stool.
4. Body strength:
- Taking powder of asteraceae with honey is useful to makes the body strong.
- Grind dried plant of asteraceae (Dry plant in shadow) and prepare pudding from it after grinding. After that, take this pudding, it increases the body strength.
- Make the powder by grinding seeds of asteraceae and mix equal quantity of sugar in it. After that, take 1 pinch this powder twice a day regularly, it enhances the body power.
- Take powder of asteraceae root with milk for two years regularly, it increases the body power. Consequently, the hair does not make white too.
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