Flower Remedies

DR. MRS. BHARATI A. LELE

STRIROG & PRASUTI AYURVED. PUNE
INDIA
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Latin Name - Butea Frodnosa

Flowers are red colour. Dry powder of flower
is useful for color like urukum. It gives color
to food.
Taste- Astringent, Cool.
Medical Uses - Flower Tea is Diuretic. Usefull
for Kidney stone, Anurea, Kaphaj Prameha
(Type of Diabetes)
Dry powder 2 to 5 gm. for bleeding piles,
DUB, Menorrhagia Increases Shukra dhatu.
Effect of flowers & gum is Aphrodiasiac.
 Kanchanar

Latin Name - Bauhinia Variegata

Red, White & yellow colors flowers are
available. Flowers Asringent & Cool.
Medical Uses - Flower tea is useful to wash
the wounds as well as gargling & drush.
Flowe tea is taken for leucorrhea + triphala.
Decoction of its buds is beneficial for cough,
bleeding piles & haematuria
 Ashok
Best friend of Women.

Latin Name Saraca Asoca

Taste - Astringent, & Cooling effect.
Medical Uses- Help to constrict the vessles.
Reduces bleeding & give support to uterin
muscles. Tea of flower should be taken for all
sort of bleeding disorders.
Kalpa - Ashok Vati, Ashokarishta

 Nagkeshar

Latin Name - Mesua Ferrea

Flowers bright Redish yellow color. Available
during Spring. Pollens from flower are
having medicinal properties.
Taste - Astringent. bitter effect- cooling.
Prabhav - Hrudya
Due to Astringent Taste, it helps to constrict
blood vessels & stops bleeding.
Effective DUB. Menorrhagia, Bleeding gums,
piles & all sort of bleeding disorders.
Churna (Powder) 3 to 5 gm. should taken
with butter or buttermilk.

 Aragawadha

Latin Name - Casia Fistula / Raj Vruksha

Flower - Yellow color available during spring.
Taste - Sweet Astringent Veepak Sweet Virya
Cooling.
Medical Uses- Decoction (flower) is useful for
gargling usefule in mouth ulcer. FLowes past
(ext. application) effective on Ecxema. Also it
helps to heal the wound
Flower jam is prepared and used for digestive
disorders.

 Vasa

Latin Name - Adhatoda Vasaca

Flower - White color & small size, available in
Feb & March spring
Taste - Bitter, Astringent, cooling
Medical Uses- Express juice of flowers is
effective for cough & Asthma. Flowers Juice
is also effective for all sorts of Bleeding
disorder e. g. DOB Menorrhagia
Dose 10 to 20 ml.

 Tulasi - Holy Basil
Latin Name - Ocimum Sanctum
Flower - are black & redish blakc, white color
khnown as Manjiri.
Taste - Pungent & Heating.
Action- Respiratory disorders like cough,
Asthma
Kalpa - Tulasi tea with black pepper & crystal
sugar is very effective on cough & asthma.
Pneumonia tea of Manjiri + Ginger + Onion
Honey.
Tulasi - Demulcent, Diaphoretic,
Expectorant, Bronchitis
Powerful mosquito repellent.
In cold & Flus, Tulsi chai with cardamom,
Tulasi is sacred so every Indian plant it
milk & honey will bring down a fever. In
infront of the house. respiratory infections tulsi tea can be
prepared with the addition of cloves, a spice
which helps respiratory immunity. And in
case of sore throat, tulsi tea can be gargled as
well as drunk. Use of tulsi tea helps create a
positive, peaceful and sattvic (peaceful) state
of mind.
 Narikel - Coconut
Latin Name - Cocos nucifera
Flower - are small & faint yellow color.
Taste - Astringent, Virya - Cooling
Action - Pacify blood & Pitta
Medical Uses- Flowers are used in hair Oil.
Known as Vat - Jatadi Oil, Flower Oil useful
for Nasya.
 Rose -Taruni
Latin Name - Rosaceae
Flower - There are more than 5000 varieties of
roses, give fragrance & useful for perfumeries. Rose
play an amportant role in economic, social, spiritual
lives of people in India, They are used for pooja,
creation of garlands, gulkand, atta, rose water & Oil.
Essential Oil is extracted by hydrodistillation or
steam distilation of rose petels.
Rose oil Antidepressant, Anti spasmodic & anti
bacterial, anti viral remove stress.
Gulkand - ROse Petal Confention
One of the most delicious Ayurvedic preparations
used as cooling Tonic to combat fatique, heat
related conditions, high pitta, Pre & menopalsal like
Hot fueshes.
A Reciepe for Gulkand.
Ingredients -125 gms of Rose petals, 2 cups sugar, 1
cup lemmon juice, pectin 1/2 tsp.
wash & rinse the petals. Drain out excess water. Put
everythind in pan, heat till sugar dissolves. Stirring
continuously. Once boiling stat simmer coverd for
30 minutes.
 Champak
Latin Name -
Flower - Tree grows to 100 feet in pyramidal
shape. When it blooms, it is covered with
thousand of golden blossoms. This is
considered sacred so always planted near the
temple.
Medical Uses- Infusion & decoction of flower
is used for dyspecpsia, nausea, fever, STDS.
Flower oil is useful for massage in
rheumatism.
Kalpa
Bakul champakavaleh - Useful for upper
Respiratory.
 Jasmine
An evergreen climber 10 - 12 m. high ,
delicate white green leaves & flagrant star
shaped white flower.
Flower - Cooling, pacify pitta & vata
Jasmine oil- nourishiing to tissues &
strengthening to nervous sys.
Jatyadi Gruta Useful for mouth uclers
exxcellent for high pitta. (Combination of
flower & leaves)
Burning Sensation - Flower oil is useful.
 Lotus
Latin Name - sacred flower
Flower - Pink, white, blue
use for Pooja - Ganesha, Laxmi, Brahma
Medical Uses- The honey from bees which
visit lotus flowers is reported to have tonic
properties.
Intubation- stem of the flower, hollow tube is
used for feeding.
 Parijata
Latin Name - Nycanthes Arbortrisis
This tree is very sacred flowers are used for
Shiv, Vishnu & Krushna pooja.
According to Vedas- THis tree is a gift to
humanity. Fragrance help to unlock stored
memories.
Flower - The vibrant orange center
symbolizes agni, the spiritual power that
purifies the heart & mind, burning away
wordly desires white petals - pure
conciousness.
Medical Uses- Flowers are fragrant useful in
Dengue to snief, & vitiligo
 Dhayati
Latin Name - Woodfordia fructosa
Flower - are bright red colors.
Taste - Astrongent, bitter & pungent.
Medical Uses- 1 Intestinal worms - 3
gms of powder of flowe on empty
stomach with water for 3 days.
2 Diarrhoea - 2 tsp. flower powder with
honey & one cup of buttermilk 2 times
a day.
3 Bleeding piles - 1 tsp. powder of
flower with honey for 1 weeak
Flowers are useful to make medicinal
wines like draksharishta, asokarishta.
4 Decoction of flower is very effective
on liver disorders.
5 Dry flowers are used for fermentation
known as "Asu- Tatva" thats why Dry
flowers are useful for preparation of
herbal wines known as Asav & Arishta.
 Haladi Kumkum
Latin Name - Asclepias curassavica
Flower - Yello & red color
Medical Uses- Flower decoction It is liver
stimulant & febrifuge.
Decoction is also useful for bleeding due to
wounds it also help to the swelling.
 Agastya
Latin Name Sesbania Gradifolia
Flower are edible and used in salads and
make vegitable.
Medical Uses- Very rich in calcium. Root
and bark used as bitter tonic. Fruit is good
for memory.
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