Azadirachta indica - Nimba

Meliaceae

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Vernacular names

•   Bengali             Nim
•   English             Neem, Margosa
•   Gujarati:           Limdo -લીમદો 
•   Hindi:                Balnimb, नीम neem, निम्ब nimb
•   Kannada:          Bevu
•   Konkani:           Kadu Neem -कडुनीम 
•   Malayalam:      Aryaveppu, Vepp
•   Marathi:            Kadunimba - कडूनिंब,  Kadulimba -कडूलिंब 
•   Rajasthani:       Nimkauli
•   Sanskrit:           Nimba, निम्बक nimbak, पिचुमर्द -Pichumarda
•   Tamil:                Veppali, Vembu
•   Telugu:              Vepa
•   Urdu:                  Neem - نيم 

Ayurvedic Properties

Rasa           - Tikta & Kashaya

Guna          -  Laghy (Light)

Veerya        -  Sheetha (Cold)

Vipaka        -  Katu (Pungent)

Karma        -  Blood purifier, Anti- in flammatory, Anti- parasitic,Antiseptic                         

 -       Agnikrut, Netryam, Kushtanut, Bhedanam, Mehanut, Hrudyam.

Medicinal Properties

Nimba pacifies pitta, good for skin disease, eczema, fever, wound, ulcer, tumor, worms, cough, diabetes, inflammation and arthiritis

Parts Used

All the parts are used – root, rootbark, stem bark, flowers, Leaves, Twigs, Seed, Oil, Neem cake

Uses

·      The bark is used in intermittent and remittent fevers, general debility and convalescence. It is a reputed blood-purifier and hence it is given as a specific in cased of skin diseases (Kushta), Vaararakta, and other disease the blood.

·      The tender leaves ground into mass with pepper and salt are given as carminative an anthelmintic and in skin diseases

·      The twigs are used as toothbrush – Neem is an excellent antiseptic for teeth and gums.

·      The Juice of the leave is used with honey in kamala or jaundice and worms.

·      The seeds are anthelmintic and alternative

·      The oil extracted from it is better in, anthelmintic and stimulant and has a specific action in skin diseases.

·      Soaps, Shamoopoo, Toothpaste and come facial products are in makrert with the oil and extract base

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Piper nigrum - Maricham

Family: Piperaceae

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Vernacular Names

·      Assamese:     Jalook

·      Bengali:          Kala Marich

·      Gujarati:         કાળા મરી Kala mari

·      Hindi:               काली मिर्च Kali mirch, ऊषण ushan

·      Kannada:        Kari menasu

·      Kashmiri:        मरिचम् Maricham

·      Konkani:          मीरे miire, पोख्ळें मीरीं Pokhlem mirim

·      Malayalam:    Kurukulak,

·      Marathi:           मरीच marich, काळी मिरची Kali mirachi,

·      Mizo:                Thinghmarcha

·      Nepalese:       मरिच Marich

·      Oriya:               Dolo maricho

·      Pali:                  पिप्फळी Piphali

·      Punjabi:           ਕਾਲੀ ਮਿਰਿਚ Kali mirich

·      Sanskrit:         कृष्ण krsna, मरिचं Maricham, उल्लाघः Ullaghah, उषणम् Usanam

·      Tamil:               மரிசம் Maricam, மிளகு Milaku

·      Telugu:             Marichamu, Miriyamu

·      Urdu:                سياه مرچ Siyah mirch, اوشن Ushan

Sanskrit Synonyms

Vellaja            - Because of its resourcing from climber

Krushna        - As its fruits are black in color

Ushana           - Its taste is Ushana i.e. Pungent

Suvrutta         - Because of the round shape of its fruits

Properties

Maricham is pungent, acute and improving appetite

It check kapha and vata

It promotes pitta and is dry (rooksha)

Maricha is useful in the treatment of swaasa, sula and krimi

Rasa         - Katu (Pungent)

Guna        - Laghu (Light) & Teekshna 

Veerya     - Ushna (Warm)

Vipaka      - Katu (Pungent)

Actions  

Febrifuge, antiperiodic, antipyretic, stimulant to heart, carminative, anthelmintic and parasiticide

Deepanam, Krimi hara,

Uses

Ò        Maricha is commonly used in the early stage of all fevers and also as a preventive of further troubles in cold, catarrh and influenza.

Ò        Marich a is very good digestive and carminative. So it recommended in diarrhea, dyspepsia, flatulence and atonic of the stomach

Ò        In cough, cold, asthma and other pulmonary affections it is given in powder form with ghee, honey and sugar or as a decoction with milk, like coffee or tea.

Ò        It acts as stimulant to heart and increases expectoration.

Ò        It acts as good anthelmintic if it is given along with other drugs.