1. For comfortable delivery.
Tieing the tender root of neem tree at the loins of the woman about to deliver will render the delivery trouble free.
2. In treating wounds, emesis (excess of vomiting) and kushta.
To cleanse the wounds and ulcers a paste of the ground leaves is applied over them and bandaged. Besides cleaning the injured and purifying tissues, this also stimulates quick regeneration and a healthy healing up.
Drinking freshly extracted juice of neem leaf is efficacious in kushta, diseases due tokapha and pitta aggravations, emesis as well as infection due to worms in general.
3. In Painful Eyes
Rubbing the fruits of neem against a metallic, preferably iron vessel will make the expressed juice slightly thick. This is to be applied now over the paining eye. The distress will be greatly reduced.
4. In palita – premature greying of the hairs.
The seeds of neem are to be submitted for treatment {bhavana) seven times in the freshly extracted juice (swarasa) of bhringaraj[Eclipta prostrata L). Again give another treatment [bhavana) seven times in vijaya sar. Extract the oil from the seeds now. Taking this oil as a nasal will remove premature greying. During the period of treatment, sustenance should be only on milk.
The writers of medical nighantus on Ayurveda or the lexicographers were mainly responsible over ages to conserve and spread useful knowledge of this ancient system of medicine in India in the general public and also assist the specialists in the field with their own highly codified works of the nighantus. These nighantu authors speak of three “varieties” of neem. They are nimba and mahantmba which we have seen so far andkatdarya (the sweet neem).
Charaka has included neem in ‘ his famous groups of Ten Drugs or dashemani class. He has many more references for this plant in his great samhita and quite an extensive amount of data for its utility in kushta. Sushruta’s references are also many.