Ayurvedic component effective in chest, abdomen and skin diseases

Tulsi, which is also known as panacea, is called divine because it's omnipresent, scented, beautiful and useful herbal medicine for human being. It's planted every household due to it religious importance. There are various types of tulsi. Out of which black and white are prominent. The leaves and the branches of black tulsi is of purple in colour. Apart from that, Ocimum basilicum O and gratissimum are also of great importance. Tulsi has been used on many occasions in svashghn dashemani and shirovirechan of charak sanhita for worm and venom treatment. Acharya Sushrut in Sushrut Sanhita has advised to use Tulsi. 

Outer shape 

Its shakiya plant or kshup is of 30-60 cm high, straight and multi-branched, scented, soft, romash and perennial. Part of its bulb is kashthiya and its colour is of purple. It's of straight and spread, soft. Its leaves are simple and 2.5-6.3 cm long and 1-3 cm wide. There are romash on both the sides. There are micro glands. Its flower is of small and white or purple or red in colour. Its 15-20 cm long stem is asimaksh. Its fruit is of very small in size and round in shape. Its flower and fruit period is from July to October. 

Apart from that, varius types of tulsi are used for treatment:

Ocimum americanum Linn.- It's of 25-60 cm high, branched and scented and shakiya plant. Its bulb is of wood like and four cornered. The leaves are 2.3-5 cm long, thin at both the corners. There are long bunch of flowers at the end of the branches. The flowers are of white in colour. Its seed is of pink in colour. Its pnjang is scented, deepan, vatanulomak, swedjanak, anti-fungal and anti-bacterial.  

Medicinal use and method:

Headache 
Use 1-2 gm of dry manjari of tulsi with honey to get rid of this disease. Use 5 leaves of tulsi with water daily to boost intelligence and brain power. Use 1-2 drops of tulsi oil on the head to check chronic headache. It proves beneficial for hair. It brings brightness on the face. 
Eye disease 
Use 5-10 drops of tulsi juice in the eye to get rid of colour blindness. 

Nasal disease
Use tulsi leaves or manjari to check penas disease. 

Ear disease 
Boil tulsi juice and use 2-2 drops in the ear to check the disease. Apply lep prepared with tulsi leaves, arand bulb and small quantity of salt to check swelling on the backside of ear. 

Mouth disease
Prepare tablet of black pepper and tulsi leaves and put beneath the teeth to check the disease. Use tulsi juice with warm water to check the throat disease. Use water with tulsi juice and turmeric and black salt to check mouth, teeth and throat diseases. Tulsi is also beneficial in swarbhang.

Liver and jaundice disease  
Use 1-2 gm of tulsi leaves with lassi to get rid of jaundice. Tulsi leaves are also beneficial for jaundice. 

Reproductive diseases 
Mix 2-4 gm of tulsi with root dust and jamikand dust and keep  125-250 mg quantity in the betel and use it to check stambhan. Use one gm tulsi seed with milk twice a day to boost reproductive function. 

Bone disease 
Use 2-4 gm of tulsi panchang dust with milk twice a day to get relief in bone and arthritis diseases. Use baphara of tulsi quath on affected pulse. It's also helpful in various bone related diseases.

Chest disease

• Beneficial in cold, pratishyay and jukam diseases. Mix 50 gm tulsi leaves (including manjari), 25 gm ginger and 15 gm black pepper with 500 ml water and do quath make it one-fourth. Take 10 gm small ilaichi seed and cook it with 200 gm sugar. 

• Give 0.5-1.5 spoon of mixture to the children and 2-4 spoon to the adult to check cold, throat and other respiratory diseases. It is helpful in bronchitis. 

• Use tulsi manjari, ginger and onion juice with honey to check dry cold and bronchitis in children.

Abdominal diseases 

• Mix 10 ml of tulsi juice with equal proportion of ginger juice and 500 ml ilaichi dust to check vomiting. 

• Mix 10 tulsi leaves with 1 gm cucumin with honey and take it three-four times in a day to check diarrhoea, pain and dysentery.

• Use 50-60 ml tulsi fant with jaiphal just to get relief in diarrhoea. 

• Use tulsi leaf juice or fant thrice before meal to check ajeerna, agnimandya and liver diseases in children. 

• Use 2 gm of tulsi manjari with black salt three-four times a day to boost digestive system. 

Renal disease

• Mix 1 gm each of tulsi seed and cucummin dust with 3 gm mishri and take the solution with milk twice a day to check renal diseases. 

• Tulsi seeds are beneficial in removing stone in the kidney.

• Use 1-2 gm of tulsi leaves with honey to check renal diseases.

Skin disease

•  Use 10-20 ml tulsi leaf juice daily in the morning to get rid of leprosy. 

   

•  Use tulsi leaves with lemon juice in leprosy and skin diseases. Mixture of tulsi leaf juice, limestone and cow ghee is beneficial in leprosy. Put equal proportion of tulsi leaf juice, lemon juice and kasaundi leaf juice in a bronze utensil for 24 hours in sunlight. Apply it in shivtra disease. It brings brightness on the face. 

• Mix tulsi root with ginger and take it with water in the morning to get rid of leprosy. Use tulsi root with honey three-four times a day. Cook 10-20 gm tulsi leaves for healing wounds quickly. Apply tulsi juice to check worms. Take 5 ml tulsi stem juice daily to check leprosy and itching.

Sarvasharira disease 

• Prepare a mixture of 20 gm tulsi seed dust with 40 gm mishri and use 1 gm quantity in winter season to get rid of rheumatic disease. It removes weakness and boosts immune system. Use 5-10 ml of black tulsi leaf juice with double quantity of cow ghee twice-thrice a day to check the disease. 

• Tulsi plant is anti-malaria. Use quath of tulsi leaves in the interval of three hours to get relief in malaria. Prepare a quath of 20 tulsi leaf bunch with 10 nag black pepper to remove all type of fevers. 

• Take tulsi leaves dust, shunthi dust and ajwain dust and use thrice a day to check fever. 

Child disease

• Give olive, tulsi and tankan dust to check abdominal, respiratory, kas and fever arising out of cough. 

• Tulsi leaves juice is used to check kas, pratishyay, fever and diarrhoea and chhardi diseases.