A very simple but quite an effective remedy to dress up and cure any type of wound on the body is: grind a piece of the wood of neem on the grind stone on which the sandal wood is usually rubbed around continuously along with a little water and in the same manner. Apply the paste you get thereby over any wound on the body.
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Two diseases of the children over which simple remedies from neem are advised are the following:
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If the goiter (kantha mala) has become mature and a wound has arisen there or it has become ulcerous, soak a wick of cotton in neem oil and place it in the exposed region; there will be a quick healing and a surprising filling up.
Take two tolas of the inner bark, let it be ground with a proportionate amount of water and then filter it in five tolas of water. This is to be drunk morning and evening. Apply poultice of fine ground neem leaves on the morbid swellings at the armpits. By this measure the swellings will get spread out and the fever will be quietened.
Once Mahatma Gandhi wanted to know the nutritive value of neem. The then Director of the National Institute of Nutrition, Coonoor undertook such a study and found out that in the green leaves of neem, there occurs a plenty of nutritive principles.
In joint pains, rheumatism (sandhi vata) and neurotic pains at the joints (amavata)massaging with neem oil gives relief, specially in the latter. It is again the sulphur content of neem that is believed to be responsible for such a result.
Crush a fistful of leaves into a paste and apply this as poultice on boils, pimples (caused by the uprooting of a hair), ulcers, pustules and abscesses. This will act as a stimulative in healing as well as a disinfectant and a vermifuge warding the germs). The germs will die and a quick benefit will result.
The most, medicative product of neem plant is its oil. An application of it on the surface is disinfective, germicidal, stimulative and healing. The sores and ulcers of a old syphilitic patient, hard abscesses, highly vitiated wounds – for all of these, this is a very useful medicine. The wounds that do not heal up well by any other treatment -even they v/ill show a markedly effective response when treated by neem oil.
Two ounces of fresh leaves thrown in one pint of boiling water and then cooled will yield a preparation that is bitter but nourishing. Drinking this has a marked effect on liver functioning; the faecal colour will then become normal and deep yellow. Such an extract is useful in chronic malarial fever though not so good as neem oil. Its another significant use is in dressing and curing chronic and old wounds of a syphilitic patient.
Fish attractant: Along the Coramandal coast, fishermen throw neem branches in the sea, fishes get attracted to them in large number during their spawning or egg laying period and can then be caught easily.