Neem Therapy: Neem to Treat Diseases of the Eye

Night Blindness: Here the patient cannot see during night though the eyes are hale and healthy and the vision is not at all affected during the day time. A simple, useful procedure advised in this condition is as follows: Take the leaves of neem, pound them in any clean and good resin (e.g. resin from the pine tree) and then grind them together to a fine degree spraying water throughout. Remove the water from this mass afterwards by squeezing it with the help of a clean piece of cloth.

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Neem Therapy: Neem to Treat Diseases of the Nose

Nose Bleeding: Apply neem leaf and ajwan ground together on the temple region of the head along with other measures of treatment as well, if you so desire; relief will ensue quickly. Anointing the head with an ointment of neem leaf and neem bark is another remedy here.

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Neem Therapy: Neem to Treat Diseases of the Teeth

A hygienic upkeep of teeth is a must for general health. Carelessness in this regard is likely to lead to many complications besides the diseases of the teeth, such as stomach pain, indigestion and so on. Regular brushing of the teeth is indispensable for any health measure whatsoever.

Habitual brushing and cleaning of the teeth with fresh and tender twigs of neem tree will keep the teeth healthy. This is also useful in warding of the eye and the stomach upsets. The shaking teeth will become strong, the pain will go, the breath will be fresh and many diseases of the mouth will disappear.

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Neem Therapy: Neem to Cure Cough and Breathing Difficulty

The recipe here is slightly complex! Take one chatak each of the leaves of neem, sambhar salt (a salt prepared from the sambhar lake in Rajasthan), dried Cannabis (bhang in Hindi) and young branches of the bamboo. Pound them together, grind and make small tablets out of them.

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Neem Therapy: Neem to Treat Fever

Neem is an excellent medicine for fever, specially the periodic fever.

A few simple neem based recipes are as follows:

Leaves of neem and the bark of kokanar are to be taken in equal quantity and ground together to a fine degree. Give one or two mashas of this powder in fresh water to the patient before the onset of the recurrent fever. Quite likely the fever will subside that day itself or at least the severity of tremors of fever will be much less. This is said to be a sure remedy for fever accompanied with tremors, malaria and any other seasonal fever.

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Neem Therapy: Neem to Cure Bleeding Piles

When there is an excess flow of blood due to piles, the patient is advised to eat three to four unripe fruits of neem. This is seen to be quite beneficial.

Take the leaves of neem and the leaves of nerium. Grind them together to a fine degree and apply this as a paste over the outgrowths or papillae of the piles. The papillae will disappear just after a few days.

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Neem Therapy: Neem for Labor Pain

In Maharashtra, neem is called balantnimb viz the after labour neem, the use of neem here is so much reputed. If the midwife administers fresh juice of leaves even before the labour, the contraction of the uterus is facilitated. The flow will be clear, the swellings of the uterus and the surroundings get lessened and the patient starts getting hunger. Faecal matter becomes clear, there will not be any fever and even if fever arises its violence is much less.

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