Vomitting, Cholera, Indigation etc, are coming under Diseases of the digestive system and can be easily treated through Tulsi.

Vomiting caused by excess bile subsides by drinking a mix of ten gms of Tulsi juice, ten gms of ginger juice and 20 gms of lemon juice sweetened with powedered sugar.
• Vomiting due to vata, pitta and kapha can be cured by drinking Tulsi juice to which powdered cardamom seeds have been added.
• Vomiting and lack of appetite are cured by taking a mixture of powdered peepar (piper longum) and powdered Tulsi seeds with honey.
• Vomiting of all types subsides on taking Tulsi juice with honey.
• To cure vomiting caused by fever drink a mixture of 10 gms of Tulsi juice and 25 gms of water sweetened with 10 gms of sugar.
• Drinking 25 gms of mixed juice of Tulsi leaves, leaves of the drumstick tree with a little saindhav salt stimulate digestion and induce regular bowel motion.
• Take ten gms of each dried Tulsi leaves, seeds of large cardamoms, cumin seeds, dry ginger, cinnamon, ajwan seeds, black salt and roasted asafoetida. Powder and sieve it. This powder with water stimulates digestion.
• Ingestion of Tulsi leaves and powdered black pepper cures dyspepsia.
• Licking equal quantities of powdered Tulsi seeds and powdered peepar (piper longum) with honey will stimulate appetite.
• Take equal quantities of the roots of the Tulsi plant and the stones of the fruits of the neem tree. Grind these together and prepare pea-sized pills out of the resulting paste. Two of these pills taken with honey every morning and evening will cure piles. The pills can be taken with buttermilk instead of honey.
• For piles sores drinking the juice of Tulsi leaves and the roots of kakjangha (a run), and apply the juice on the sores.
• If there is a burning sensation in the chest, the stomach or the calves, application of a paste of Tulsi leaves mixed with a paste obtained by a piece of deodar wood gives relief.
• Drinking the above decoction after adding threee gms of powdered nutmeg brings rapid relief even in difficult cases of irregularity in bowel motions.
• Take equal quantities of Tulsi leaves, mandar roots and black pepper. Grind these ingredients together and roll into pills. These pills constitute an effective remedy for cholera.
• Another treatment for dysentery is administration of dried Tulsi leaves with cumin seeds and black, salt in curds, or mattha.
• For diarrhoea with blood drink a mixture of soaked ten gms of Tulsi seeds in 50 gms of water overnight. Grind them, strain and drink with milk or water.
• For watery stools a mix of Tulsi leaves and the bark of the indrajav plant works wonders.
• Diarrhoea due to inefficient digestion is cured by an extract of Tulsi leaves, with saunf (fenel seeds) powder, fried in ghee and sugar.
• Spoonful of Tulsi juice mixed with a spoonful turmeric juice three times a day is beneficial in any disorder of the digestive system.
• If suffering from recurring stomach ulcers drink a decoction of Tulsi leaves and the leafy part of the soya (soya, dill) plant, and little saindhav salt.
• Enlargement of the spleen can be cured by taking five gms of mixed Tulsi roots, salammoniac, borax (the dehydrated form), and javakhar (yavakshar).
• Drinking a warm mixture of Tulsi and ginger juice cures stomachache.
• Chewing Tulsi leaves with a little sugar is a good remedy for colic.
• Five gms of powdered Tulsi leaves, five gms of roasted cumin seeds, five gms of bili (bilwa) powder and two gms of black salt added to 50 gms of curds, and mixed well. This mixture is beneficial in dysentery, colic, grips and inefficient digestion.
• Boil ten gms of Tulsi leaves in 100 gms of water, till only half the water is left, and strain the extract. Drinking this extract will arrest the enlargement of the liver, and cure allied disorders.
• Applying a paste of ground Tulsi leaves will cure inflammations.
• Drinking an extract of Tulsi seeds and sona mukhi leaves cures obstruction in the urinary tract and the rectum.
• To cure tumours apply a paste of ground Tulsi seeds, white sarasao (sara son), radish seeds, drumstick seeds, barley `and the roots of kaner.
• Hiccups can be cured by taking a teaspoonful of Tulsi juice and half a spoonful of honey in the morning and evening.
• Prepare an extract of Tulsi leaves and its inflorescences. Mix with jaggery and take it regularly to cure hiccups.

Bood purifying, sharpening memory, purifying polluted water , to strengthening heart and digestive system Tulsi plant is the best remedy.

• To improve memory swallow five leaves of Tulsi or crush eight leaves, four black pepper seeds, two almonds and a little honey.
• To purify polluted water drop a few fresh green Tulsi leaves in it.
• Treat burns by smearing the affected part with coconut oil boiled with Tulsi juice. This will reduce pain and hasten the healing.
• Persistent thirst can be quenched by drinking the sherbet of tulsi leaves, sugar and lemon juice.
• To strengthen the heart daily ingest five leaves of Tulsi, three black pepper seeds and three almonds. Take it during winter season only.
• Boil saindhav salt with Tulsi juice, two drops will revive a fainted person.
• Regular use of Tulsi effects rapidily increase in the number of the red blood corpuscles.
• Cut the dried twigs of Tulsi into beads of the size of large pearls. String together the beads. Wearing protects one from infectious diseases.
• Swallowing five leaves of Tulsi every morning also protects one from infectious diseases.
• Tulsi leaf juice with sugar acts as a preventive from sunstroke
• For fatigue drink an extract of Ram Tulsi leaves with cow`s milk and sugar.

Respiratory Diseases can be cured by tulsi

Respiratory Diseases are growing rapidly now a days because of the Polutions in air. here are some easy treatments of Tulsi to prevent from this problem.
• If you have a dry cough or your voice has become hoarse due to a sore throat, grind equal amounts of Tulsi leaves, poppy seeds and jethi madh (yashti madhu) together and take the mixture with an equal quantity of sugar in warm water.
• Chest pains and coughs are relieved by drinking Tulsi juice with crystal sugar.
• Tea brewed with Tulsi leaves is a good remedy for fevers, colds and muscular pains.
• Licking a paste formed by mixing camphor and honey with Tulsi juice, without added water, will relieve congestion in the chest due to thickened phlegm.
• Crush seven Tulsi leaves and five black pepper seeds to a fine paste and roll into pills. Take one pill every morning, noon and evening with water. Coughs and colds will be eradicated completely within a week.
• Ingestion of five gms of Tulsi leaf juice mixed well with two powdered black pepper seeds and five gms of sugar will relieve stiffening of the chest muscles and will also cure chronic fever.
• Hiccups and asthma can also be cured by taking an extract of equal quantities of Tulsi leaves and inflorescences with aged jaggery.
• Smoking a bidi rolled from Tulsi leaves cures a freshly contracted cold.
• Licking ten gms of the juice of Barbari Tulsi leaves mixed with jaggery, powdered seeds of two cardamoms and some honey arrests the excessive secretion of phlegm.
• For relief in an attack of asthma, prepare a decoction by boiling five gms of Tulsi inflorescences and ten gms of dry ginger in water, allow it to cool, mix some honey with it, and drink it. Take such a decoction twice or thrice as necessary.
• If there is pain in the ribs due to cold, apply a paste obtained by mixing five gms of powdered pusker seeds with five gms of Tulsi juice.
• If the cold has been caused by a drenching in the rain or excessive humidity in the air, drinking a decoction of Tulsi, dry ginger, cloves, cinnamon and black pepper three or four times in a day will effect a cure.
• Taking a paste obtained by crushing Tulsi leaves and four or five roasted cloves together will also prove beneficial in the treatment of coughs.
• If phlegm has been secreted in excessive quantities, drinking a decoction of five gms of Tulsi leaves, naagar, moth (musta) and dry ginger will rid the system of the excess phlegm.
• Coughs can be relieved by inhaling the vapours arising from Tulsi seeds being heated in a little ghee (clarified butter). Some warm milk must be taken after such inhalations.
• A paste formed by grinding together Tulsi seeds, onions and ginger and mixing with honey is beneficial in dry cough and infantile asthma. The paste is to be licked.
• Green Tulsi leaves grilled over an open fire taken with a little common salt are beneficial in coughs and pharyngitis.

Properties of Tulsi

Tulsi is sharp, bitter, and hot; it benefits the heart, stimulates appetite, causes a burning sensation and increases the secretion of bile. Normally only the leaves of the plant are used medicinally. Occasionally, the seeds are also used.

The presence of a Tulsi plant in a house destroys insects, especially bedbugs and lice. It purifies the air. Ram Tulsi is hot and dry in action. It cleanses the nostrils, strengthens the heart, the liver and the stomach, helps digestion, reduces inflammation, has beneficial effects in all disorders related to mental distress, though it may cause headaches and is generally insalubrious for persons with physiological natures classified as `hot` in Ayurvedic terms. It is beneficial in swellings caused by excessive mucal congestion caused by kapha, as well as in disorders caused by cold surroundings, and it destroys worms lodging in the alimentary canal.

The seeds are highly beneficial in cases of dysentery, diarrhoea, dry cough and pulmonary congestion leading to wheezing sounds while breathing. They also induce the production of more concentrated semen. Allopathy regards Tulsi as an expectorant, and a cure for malaria and many other diseases.

The Tulsi plants grow wild in all warm regions in general, and are also cultivated in orchards and gardens. Tulsi does not grow well in cold regions.

Tulsi

`Tulsi` is a Sanskrit name. `Tulsi means one that does not tolerate. Because of the salubrity of its juice it is also termed `Surasa`. Being easily available it is called `Sulabha`. Abundantly found in rural areas, it is called `Gramya`, the village maiden. It has also earned the name `Shoolaghni`, because of its ability to alleviate pain.

The Latin name given to Tulsi is `Ocimum Sanctum`. One of the English names for Tulsi is `the Mosquito Plant`. Sir George Birdward wrote that the Victoria Gardens and the /Prince Albert Museum were `malarial`. The cultivation of the Tulsi plants freed it from mosquitoes.


The housewife has a daily routine of performing Puja of this plant. She pours holy water from the puja into the soil supporting the plant, joins her hands in obeisance, and prays for prosperity, and happiness of the family. Tulsi is worshipped again in the evening, with a small lamp lighted before it.During monsoon daily worship of Tulsi becomes an indispensable religious ritual. Hindu scriptures look upon Tulsi as the divine representative of the Lord Vishnu on earth.

The Tulsi plant can be used for prevention as well as cure of illnesses. A Tulsi plant at the doorstep is said to keep the atmosphere of the house pure and clean, and keep illness away.

Tulsi is worshipped, and so are its leaves offered in worship to many gods. The leaves are given prime position in religious rituals, as prasad or offerings to Gods, in devotion, in preparing `Panchamrit` and in alms to the poor. In Greece people have great faith in Tulsi. They celebrate `Tulsi day` every year. It is used as a household remedy in Australia. With the many virtues ancient sages chose to accord such importance to Tulsi, and established the tradition of growing Tulsi plants in homes. It is even believed that the messengers of Death (diseases) cannot approach a home where Tulsi is planted! Vedas mention that God does not accept any offering if it does not include Tulsi leaves. Puranas describes Tulsi as the consort of Lord Krishna.

A person who eats five leaves of Tulsi a day is said to be protected from a large number of diseases. Common illnesses like coughs, colds, fevers, toothache, stomachache, headache, sore throat, nasal discomfort, eye diseases, inflammation, itching, loss of appetite, indigestion, vomiting, diarrhoea, dysentery, heart disease, worms, rheumatism, boils, cuts, wounds, skin diseases, acne, irritation, pustules, sunstroke, muscular pains, fainting, and poisoning have known to be cured with the help of Tulsi.

The ancient poets have eulogized Tulsi. It has a sharp taste, and a peculiar odour which has a capacity to kill germs. It is always used when fresh, there is no possibility of it generating toxins in the body. A large number of household remedies are prepared by mixing Tulsi with dry (stone) ginger, pepper, billa fruit pulp, the tender shoots of the neem tree, cardamom, and such other ingredients.

Tulsi grows wild, and can also be cultivated. The plant is three to four feet tall. It grows in all types of soils, but black sticky and moist soil is most suitable. The plants do not need much attention. The plant bears inflorescences about two inches long. The maximum diameter of the trunk may be about the size of a wrist, and the branchs may grow to a thickness of half an inch. The leaves are of an elongated oval shape with serrations.

The practitioners of the Unani system regard Tulsi as hot in the initial stages and dry in the later stages, and believe that it stimulates the activity of the brain, reduces swellings, destroys gas, relieves congestion in the heart, stimulates the appetite, counters dilapidation of the skin and vitiation of the blood.

It is said that the Muslims too have a tradition of placing Tulsi leaves in graves, as they are well aware of the importance of the therapeutic properties of Tulsi.

Tulsi is used in Brazil to treat disorders of the rectum, the urinary system and the penis, as an infallible remedy. In Mauritius the bodies of people suffering from paralysis and rheumatoid disorders are traditionally washed with a hot decoction of Tulsi. Steam is used for the fomentation of diseased organs. Israelis use Tulsi in their religious ritual worship on various occasions such as marriage ceremonies, funeral ceremonies, and religious and social celebrations.