Winter cherry

Englishname:Wintercherry                                          

Scientific name: Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal

Usable parts: root, leaves, fruit,

 Uses:

  1)    Its root can be taken as both medicine and food. The powder of its root can remove physical and spermatic weakness when eaten with equal amount of ghee and honey. Winter cherry  also stiffens the sperm to give more sexual enjoyment. Its essence with ghee and milk is nutritious.

  2)     Ruined health is retrieved by taking the root of winter cherry with milk.

  3)     To burst the blisters the paste of its root is coated over.

  4)       The chronic bronchitis is cured if one licks its 2-3 gm root powder of winter cherry with honey, 2-3 times a day for 1-2 months.

  5)   Its root and leaves cure indigestion.

  6)   Its root is antidote for fever and acts as a vermicide (that kills worms).

  7)   Insomnia (sleeplessness) is cured when its root powder is eaten with sugar and ghee before going to bed.

 8)  It also cures biliary diseases and asthma. Its dried fruit are ante-bellyache and undried ones vermicide.

Besides, winter cherry cures cough, hiccup, leucorrhoea, abnormal menses, and other age-grown diseases.

Doses:

3-4 gm root powder with ghee and sugar or milk or honey,

Mother tincture: 4 times, each time 4-5 drops,

Precaution: none,