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JAMBU (నేరేడు) - Syzygium cuminii, Myrtaceae

Medical uses : Usually people eat pulp and throw away seeds. But in this fruit seeds are of main medical valued. 1. Diabetes: 10 gm of Jambu seeds powder boiled in 100 ml of water till it reduced to 1/4th. Take this decoction on empty stomach early morning reduces blood sugar levels. It can be used even at pre diabetic condition regularly. 2. Boils : Apply the paste of Jamun seeds powder mixed with a little sesame oil on the Boils. 3. Bedwetting (eneuresis) : Consume 5gms of Jamun seeds powder with water 2 times a day for 15 days to 1 month in children along with alarm therapy (waking up at midnight at specific time for certain days to empty bladder) can yield good results. 4. Hoarseness of voice: To maintain good voice and relieve from hoarseness, boil the  seeds and gargle with that water frequently. 5. Acne : Mix Jamun seed powder with some cowʼs milk apply as face pack. Wash with warm water. Only acne part can be applied as paste at night and continue ...

DADIMA (POMEGRANATE) - Punica granatum, Lythraceae

Medical uses: 1. Intrinsic Hemorrhage : Two teaspoonful of dadima (pomegranate)flowers mixed with goatʼs milk and sugar twice daily is beneficial. 2. Piles : Dry the peel of a sweet pomegranate and make a fine powder. Take five grams of this powder twice a day regularly with butter milk inorder to get the relief from piles. 3. Acne : Water boiled with pomegranate fruit peels should be used to wash the face for Acne. Powdered pomegranate skin should be combined with rose water or lemon juice and applied like a face pack for calming pimples, boils, acne as well as for eliminating white heads and black heads.  4. Diarrhea : 3 grms of fruit peel powder along with butter milk with one teaspoonful cumin  seeds powder twice a day is beneficial in diarrhea especially Irritable bowel syndrome. 5.Anaemia and Intestinal worms : Eat 150 gms of pomegranate seeds on an empty stomach every morning.