Bilva (మారేడు) - Aegle marmelos, Rutaceae

Medical uses:

1. Prameha(Diabetes): Take 15ml of leaf juice once in a day before food to manage diabetes and reduce excess urination.

2. Intestinal worms: 5 grams of dried and powdered pulp of the bilva fruit with butter milk should be administered twice a day 

for one week for elimination of intestinal worms

3. Piles: Crush an unripe bilva fruit3gms of dried ginger and 3gms of fennel soak this mixture in 200ml of Hot water over night. Consume this water in dose of 50ml 3 to 4 times a day to heal piles.

4. Constipation: Intake of 5gms of bilva fruit pulp mixed in a glass of butter milk or warm water twice a day to get relief from irritable 

bowel syndrome, constipation and indigestion.

5. Chronic diarrhea: Dry the slices of an unripe bilva fruit in sun and grind them into powder. intake of 5gms of this powder along 

with warm water 2 times a day is useful.

6. Jaundice: Administration of 3gms of black pepper in a 15ml of bilva leaves juice followed by butter milk twice or thrice a day in beneficial in Jaundice.

7. Mouth ulcers: Consume the mixture of a 20ml of bilva fruit pulp and a teaspoon of sugar in the morning on an empty stomach for 3 days. It heals stomach and mouth ulcers.