Improve Your Health With Trees and Plants

By Rajeev Sharma

Nature has provided mankind with a gamut of fruits, vegetables, dairy products and other sources to maintain a healthy lifestyle. These natural sources of food are rich in vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and other essential nutrients. Moreover, they have numerous unexplored healing powers. Through this series, we have made a sincere attempt to unfold the various benefits of these foods. You will find a cure for every big or small disease in this invaluable series, and will discover what treasure nature holds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond Books
• Release date: Aug 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9788128822308

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BARGAD

General properties of Bargad

Bargad is known as Vat, Nygnodh, Sharangi and Bahupad in Sanskrit and Banyan in English. This tree provides a dense shade and its fruits satiate the hunger and provide vital nourishment to the people. That is why, in the Vedas it is referred to as the ‘Mahavriksha’ or ‘Great tree’.

Bargad is supposed to be a very long-lasting tree. As it grows for many years, its horizontal size also increases, making many of its roots upside down to provide extra support for its growth. This is a very sacred tree for the Buddhists who worship it because Gautam Buddha became the Enlightened one under the shade of this tree. The size of Bargad is big enough to accommodate a full army underneath its shade.

Not only Bargad’s fruits, leaves and other products are useful for the human body, its mere presence purifies the atmosphere. It takes up all the toxic gases and give only purified oxygen. It is believed that person living close to Bargad tree becomes immune to the T.B. germs. Its products can help ladies to remove their barrenness and help them in conceiving. And its products are equally good aphrosodiac for enhancing the sexual potency of the male folk,

Bargad has many medicinal properties. Its milk is supposed to remove many skin troubles. Its fruit cures almost all the problem of the organs related to genes of both males and females. Because of its long age and undecaying quality, it is also known as ‘Akshaya-vat’.

Although, this tree survives for many hundred years, yet we must try to keep this tree green and growing. Proper care of this tree will duly return your services many times over. Do not just worship this tree, try to keep its shade clean and keep its products fresh and firm.

BARGAD USED AS MEDICINE TO CURE

THE FOLLOWING DISEASES AND AILMENTS

Asthma

Take all the five (fibrous root, leaves, fruits, bark and soft branches) products of Bargad in even quantity. Ground all of them together coarsely and then soak the mixture in water for twenty four hours. Now, crush the solid material in water, and boil the water till only 1/8th part of the water is left. After cooling it, sediment the water and again boil on less temperature to make the solution thick. You will get the essence of Bargad after cooling this mixture. Form small tablets and take at least seven tablets a day for six days to get rid of asthma.

Baldness

If it is due to the hereditary reasons, it is not curable. But, if it is result of some weakness or after effect of some illness it can be cured. Take soft fibrous roots, new sprouts, new beans, soft pulp of new bark and the milk of new leaves, and boil it in linseed oil with properly covered container till it fully roasts. Keep the fire intensity low. Add a little of jasmine essence and apply this oil on your head for a month to get lustrous hair.

Blood in Vomit

First grind, boil and strain the soft fibrous roots or branches of Bargad. Cool and strain the fluid and make the patient drink it for early cure. This will immediately stop vomitting. Alternatively, grind soft leaves of Bargad to pulp, add a little of sugar candy powder and ask the patient to lick it once in every hour.

Bleeding in Loose Motion

Pluck about five soft leaves of Bargad and grind them so finely as to make them dissolved in water. Drink this solution without straining it. The more finely the leaves are grounded the better will be the effect. This will not only stop bleeding loose motions but will also provide strength to the body. Give the fluid after every two hour. One or two doses will cure the trouble.

Burning Eyes

Line your eyes with the fluid coming out of the plucking of soft leaves of Bargad with the help of an eye-liner at least twice or thrice a week. Just three or four applications of this fluid will not only clear the burning or the eyes but also the remove redness in them. But, you should get this fluid from the leaves early in the morning before the sunrise.

Burning Sensation in Passing Urine

The easiest treatment of this problem is to put a few drops of the Bargad milk in a Batasha and eat it as the first thing in the morning. Do it before the sunrise as the milk is most effective at that time. Do it twice or thrice in a week and get rid of this trouble. Stop using any aphrosodiac and intoxicants.

Chilblains (inflammation of feet)

Fill the small crevices (gaps) of the feet with the milk of Bargad. They would start healing up soon. Boil the bark of Bargad in water and pour it in an open pan when solution is slightly hot. Put your feet into it for at least 10 to 15 minutes. This will revitalise the hardened and dead skin of the feet and enhance the blood circulation.

Dysentery

A patient having dysentery should drink the two ground