Nature's Quick Constipation Cure
Family Name: |
Rosaceae |
Local Name/ |
Gulab, Gulab bhool/Rose |
English Name: | |
Flowering Period: |
March-August |
Status: |
Common |
Part Used: |
Whole plant |
Habit/Habitat: |
A prickly or spiny shrub, found as a cultivated plant in |
home gardens. It is propagated by its vegetative part | |
(branches). | |
Distribution: |
Pakistan: Found throughout country as common home |
garden and park cultivated plant. World: Distributed | |
throughout the world. | |
Description: |
A small prickly or spiny shrub up to 1 m tall. Stem erect, |
branched, woody, and prickly. Leaves compound with | |
3-5 leaflets, toothed, opposite, petiolate, and green. | |
Flowers solitary, pinkish, red, and white. Fruit subglo- | |
bose, fleshy, and bright red (Fig. 3.80). | |
Medicinal Uses: | |
Collection: |
2 kg of fresh flowers is collected by men, women, and |
children 12-40 years old, in summer (April-August). |
Family Name: |
Rosaceae |
Recipes: |
1 kg of fresh flower petals and 1 kg of sugar are crushed |
together by hand for 20-25 min and then placed in | |
sunlight for 7-8 days. A mixture, "gulkand" is pre | |
pared after 1 week, stored in a glass jar, and given to | |
patients suffering from constipation, inflammation, | |
leucorrhoea, heart and eye diseases. For children, 1 tsp | |
(5-6 g) of drug (at one time) is given 2-3 times per day | |
for 2-3 days. For adults, 2-3 tsp (25-30 g) of drug (at | |
one time) is given 2-3 times per day for 15-20 days. | |
Diseases Cured: |
Constipation, body inflammation, heart and eye diseases, |
and leucorrhoea. | |
Ethnobotanical |
It is also cultivated in home gardens as an ornamental |
Uses: |
plant because of its beautiful flowers. |
Phytochemicals: |
Essential oil, phenolic antioxidants, hydrolyzable |
tannins, flavonols, and anthocyanins [30, 67]. | |
3.4.63 Rumex dentatus Linn. | |
Family Name: |
Polygonaceae |
Local Name/ |
Hula, Ambarvati, Taluni/Dock |
English Name: | |
Flowering Period: |
March-May |
Fig. 3.81 Rumex dentatus Linn
Family Name: |
Polygonaceae |
Status: |
Common |
Part Used: |
Whole plant |
Habit/Habitat: |
An erect annual herb, found as self-growing plant in waste |
places and in the cultivated fields of Zea mays in fertile | |
soil. | |
Distribution: |
Pakistan: Hazara, Peshawar, Quetta, Ziarat, Wazirestan, |
Parachinar, Kashmir, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. | |
World: Iran, Afghanista, India and China. | |
Description: |
A small annual herb up to 2 ft tall. Stem erect, branched, |
herbaceous, green, provided with nodes and internodes. | |
Leaves simple, alternate, redical, pale green, petiolate | |
with crispy margin. Flowers small, greenish, numerous, | |
in terminal branched racemes. Fruiting sepals enlarged, | |
ovate or obovate, winged; wings nervosa, toothed | |
(Fig. 3.81). |
Family Name:
Polygonaceae
Medicinal Uses: Collection:
Recipes:
Diseases Cured: Ethnobotanical
Uses: Phytochemicals:
'V kg of fresh roots is collected daily by men 20-40 years old, in summer (March-July), then cleaned, washed 2-3 times in water, and cut into small 1-2-in. pieces.
V kg of fresh roots and V cup (60-80 g) of common salts are ground together for 10-15 min. This paste (pinna) is given to cattle suffering from diarrhea, dysentery, and intestinal worms; 250 g of drug (at one time) is given twice daily (morning-evening) for 2-3 days. The drug's taste is sour and its color is light pink. Half a liter (500 mL) of milk should be given 8-10 min before the drug is used.
Diarrhea, dysentery, and intestinal worms in cattle.
Young leaves are used as spinach (sag). The whole plant is used as fodder for cattle.
Oxalic acid, potassium binoxalate, oxymethyl anthraqui-none, tartaric acid, tannin, and vitamins [1].
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Did you ever think feeling angry and irritable could be a symptom of constipation? A horrible fullness and pressing sharp pains against the bladders can’t help but affect your mood. Sometimes you just want everyone to leave you alone and sleep to escape the pain. It is virtually impossible to be constipated and keep a sunny disposition. Follow the steps in this guide to alleviate constipation and lead a happier healthy life.