General information:
The many therapeutic benefits of Prickly Chaff Flower have been documented in Indian and Chinese medicinal manuscripts.
According to Ayurveda, it is bitter, pungent, heating, a laxative, a stomachic, a carminative and useful for the treatment of vomiting, bronchitis, heart disease, piles, itching, abdominal pains, ascites, dyspepsia, dysentery and blood diseases (Flora of the Indian Desert, M.M. Bhandari. 287-88. 1990).
Therapeutic constituents:
The whole plant contains the alkaloids achyranthine and betaine. Achyranthine, a water-soluble alkaloid, is reported to dilate blood vessels, lower blood pressure, decrease heart rate and increase the rate and amplitude of respiration. Saponins extracted from the flower exhibit its diuretic activity.
Key therapeutic benefits:
As a diuretic, Prickly Chaff Flower eliminates toxins from the body. It is also beneficial in herbal preparations for the treatment of kidney stones.It maintains heart and gastrointestinal health.
Recipe No.1: Prickly flower oil:
Wash Prickly flower leaves, pound them and extract juice of 1 litre. Add 1 litre of good quality sesame oil and boil on SIM flame till the juice absorbs into oil. Cool it and store in a glass bottle.
Usage: Use this oil in warm condition to massage those organs having excess fat before one hour of taking bath.
Benefits: Prickly flower oil penetrates into the flesh and burns the excess fat and also relieves from all the skin problems.
Recipe No.2: Tooth Powder:
Make powder of 100 gm Prickly flower seeds and sieve. Add 10 gm salt powder and store in a bottle. If one brushes his teeth with this powder, teeth will strengthen and also whiten. Worms in the teeth will die and decayed teeth get set right.
Recipe No.3: Respiratory problems:
If Prickly flower root powder or seeds powder is stuffed in a smoking pipe and its smoke is breathed in, cough and Asthma is relieved.
Dry entire Prickly flower plant, fry it to powder. Add 2 times equal quantity of sugar and take 3 gms three times a day. Phlegm, breathlessness, continued cough, heaving etc. will be relieved. Use less quantity if used for children.
Recipe No.4: Easy delivery:
Grind 7 raw leaves of Prickly flower along with 7 Nos. pepper. Sieve the juice and drink. Easy delivery takes place.
Recipe No.5: Fevers:
Take Prickly flower leaves, pepper and garlic in equal proportion and grind them to paste. Prepare pea size tablets and dry them in shade. For ordinary fevers, take 2 tabs. For cold fevers take 3 to 5 tabs with warm water. One gets relieved from fevers.
