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| Sweet flag |
Scientific name: Acorus calamus
Useable part: Rhizome
Uses:
Indigestion and abdominal emphysema is cured if one takes 1 gm rhizome with equal amount of ajowan, and water rock salt twice a day for 15 – 20 days.
500 mg rhizome licked with honey 2 – 3 times a day for 15 – 20 days cures asthma.
250 - 500 mg rhizome powder licked with honey 2 – 3 times a day for 1 – 2 months cures dieresis (copious flow of urine).
Ventrosity (corpulence) is cured by licking 500 mg rhizome with honey for many days.
Cough and throat pain is cured if one takes 500 mg rhizome with equal amount of ginger powder and honey.
Urticaris (a red eruption on the skin) is cured by coating the infected area with the paste of sweet flag.
If one’s ears are ringing and feel pain, let some drops of sweet flag sap fall into ears which will cure both ringing and pain.
Besides, sweet flag acts as an antibechic (relieving cough) and antalgic (relieving pain) and cures stomach windiness, diarrhoea, asthma, bronchitis, apositia (loathing for food), etc.
Doses:
500 mg 1 gm rhizome,
