Bel – Aegle marmelos
English name | Botanical name | Family | Sanskrit name | Hindi name | Bael tree, Holy fruit tree | Aegle marmelos | Rutaceae | Vilva | Bel, Sirphal | Vilva is a medium sized armed deciduous tree up to 8 m height with straight, sharp, axillary thorns and yellowish brown shallowly furrowed corky bark. The leaves are trifoliate, aromatic, alternate, leaflets ovate or ovate – lanceolate, crenate, pellucid punctuate, the laterals sub sessile and the terminal long petioled. Flowers are greenish white in colour, sweet in scent, in axillary panicles. Fruits are globose, woody berry with yellowish rind. Seeds are numerous, oblong, compressed, embedded in orange brown sweet gummy pulp. Parts Used: Root, Leaves, Fruit. The interesting quality of Vilva is the root, leaves. Fruits have different actions. Example the unripe fruit acts as laxative where the ripe one stops diarrhoea. Useful in conditions like seminal weakness, diarrhoea, dysentery, stomatitis, vomiting, fever, swellings, gastric irritation, good for heart and brain and dyspepsia. Know more
Qualities (Ayurveda) - Root Taste | Sweet, astringent, bitter | Qualities | Dry, light | Potency | Hot | After digestion effect | Sweet | Special action | Good for stomach problems | Actions | Constipating, Digestive | Useful conditions | Seminal weakness, diarrhoea, dysentery, stomatitis, vomiting, fever, swellings, gastric irritation, good for heart and brain and dyspepsia. |
Qualities (leaves) – Astringent in taste, Laxative, febrifuge and expectorant.
Useful in eye diseases, Deafness, inflammations, diabetes and asthma. Qualities (unripe fruit) – Bitter in taste, acrid, sour, astringent in nature, digestive, stomachic in action Useful in diarrhoea, dysentery. Qualities (Ripe fruits) – Astringent, sweet in taste, aromatic, cooling, febrifuge, laxative and tonic in action. Strengthen the heart and brain, known medicine for dyspepsia. 1. The fruit is very help ful in habitual constipation, chronic dysentery and dyspepsia. 2. The ripe fruits are dried in sun and powdered; this powder is useful in diarrhoea, dysentery, debility of the mucus membrane. (Used only when there is no fever). 3. Leaves are made into poultice and applied in joint pains. 4. The roots, root barks or stem bark infusion is a well-practiced recipe for fevers and fever associated with diarrhoea. 5. The fruit extract is used as a preventive drug for cholera and piles. 6. Stem bark infusion is useful in palpitations, hypotension. 7. Fresh leaf juice mixed with pepper in Jaundice and anorexia. 8. The bale bark extract is the best medicine for amebic dysentery.
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