Flowers are associated with beauty, love, passion and worship. Thus, they are common at almost all events and functions. In fact, there are many more uses of flowers, the plant’s reproductive organs, than its colourful petals which meet the eye or the scent striking the nose.
How many of us
are aware of the medicinal value of flowers ?
The siddha
system of medicine has remedies through flowers.
According to the
national institute of Siddha, Chennai, the henna (lawsonia
inermis) flower if kept under the pillow, due to its cooling affect
is used in curing insomnia.
While the
jasmine (jasminum sambac) flower is useful in skin diseases and eye
irritation, rose (rosa indica) cures constipation, hameturia and
tuberculosis.
Decoction of
china rose of shoe flower or chinese hibiscus (rosasinensis) with
large red flowers grown as ornamental plants despite lacking any
scent are used for urinary diseases and menorrhagia.
Decoction of
neem (Azadirachta indica)flower acts as a stimulant and tonic
in curing gastric ulcer and kills intestinal worms.
Cassia
auriculata (avarai in Tamil), is used in the treatment of skin
disorders and checking body odour. The dried flowers can be used as
an external scrub for body odurs. The flower is also useful in
treating diabetes.
Crown flower
(calotropis gigantean), bitter, sweet and sour in taste, is used in
bronchial asthma.
Bright deep blue
with light yellow marking, butterfly pea (clitoria ternatea) plant
blooms in only six weeks from seed. Its flower is used for medicinal
values in purgative and diuretic.
Golden shower
tree (cassia fistula) flowers are produced in pendulous racemes, 2-40
cm long. Its flowers are used in curing eczema, tinea and ictching .
Rosy periwinkle
or Madagascar periwinkle (cathanyhus roseus) is used for chromium
supplementation, certain kinds of leukaemia, human neoplasm and
circulatory disorders.
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