Fenugreek
This is a kind of Keerai (leafy Vegetable in
Tamil). The leaf and seed are used. The leaf is a refrigerant and
laxative.
The seed is a diuretic, demulcent, emmenagogue,
astringent, emollient, aphrodisiac, carminative and tonic. The leaf
is useful in flatulence or wind in the bowels, dullness of gastric or
digestive fire, bronchitis, anorexia or disgust for food.
Make a paste of the leaf, warm this and apply to
swellings, burns and scalds. The swelling will we reduced and the
burns will heal up quickly. Boil the leaves and churn them with
honey. Eat them. You will have evacuation of the bowels. The bowels
will be well cleansed. Pain in the chest, cough piles, ulcers in the
bowels will be cured.
Mix British figs with the leaves, grind them well
and apply to boils and swellings. They will burst quickly. Boil the
leaves, add butter and fry and eat. Giddiness due to biliousness will
be cured.
Add almonds, papaveris (Khas Khas), Sujee, ghee,
milk and sugar to the leaves and makes a confection. This will give
strength and beauty to the body. It is a good tonic. Pain in the
waist will be cured.
The seed is useful in dysentery, gonorrhea, and
heat of the body, excessive thirst, cough and consumption. Fry the
seeds and make a powder. Make a decoction of the powder. This is
useful in pain in abdominal colic, flatulence or wind in the bowels,
gonorrhea, dysentery and internal heat of the body. Boil rice with a
little of seed and salt and ghee. Eat. This will increase the blood.
This is a blood tonic. Fry the seed with a little ghee and powder it.
Fry some wheat and powder it. Mix the two in equal parts. You can
make this a substitute for coffee. Internal heat will be cured. Add
the seed to the conjee. This will increase the milk in nursing
mothers.
Make a paste of the seed and apply it to the head.
Keep it for some time and then take bath. Hairs will grow. It will
prevent falling of hair. Soak some seeds in the curd for some time
and then take the curd and the seed. This is beneficial in dysentery.
Fry in ghee equal parts of a little methi seed, mustard, asafetida
and turmeric. Powder them, mix them with boiled rice and eat. This is
beneficial in stomach pain, abdominal colic, dysmenorrhoea, and
swelling of liver and spleen.
Fry a little dried chilli, mustard, methi seeds,
Tuvar-ki-dhai, sweet Nim leaves and asafetida in a vessel and pour
tamarind soup over this, add salt, cover the vessel. Let the soup be
reduced to half quantity. Take this with rice. Indigestion,
flatulence, anorexia or disgust for food will be cured. This is a
good appetizer. Vendava Kolambu or soup is a great change when one is
tired of too much Sambar or dhal soup. It is a good appetizer,
stomachic and carminative.
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