The extraction of leaf is a good medicine for Asthma and cough. It is a good medicine to stop internal and external bleedings like bleeding gums, piles and peptic ulcers. It is a good ingredient in decoctions for all types of fever due to kapha and pitta doshas.

This herb builds up debilitated system into vitality and vigor. Scientists working in India gathered the medicinal properties and information about this herb from the Kani tribe of Southern western Ghats of India. The tribe consume the fruits of this plant when they get tired while wandering in the forests.

Powdered liquorice root is an effective expectorant, and has been used for this purpose since ancient times, especially in Ayurvedic medi-cine where it is also used in tooth powders. Modern cough syrups often include liquorice extract as an ingredient.

Both the dark and the pale Catechu are employed in medicine, the former is more astringent, the latter, being sweeter, is less disagreeable. It depends almost entirely for its virtues upon the tannic acid it contains and is hence employed as an astringent to overcome relaxation of mucous membranes in general.

Deodorant, essential, preservative, repellent, wood, analgesic, anthelmintic, antirheumatic, antispa- smodic, aromatherapy, cardiotonic, carmina-tive, diaphoretic, odontalgic, rube-facient, sedative, stimulant, tonic, condiment.

It is Antiscorbutic,Carminative, Alterative and Nutritive. It is used in colisting diahorrea, dysentary, constipation and diarrhoea. It is aromatic, astringent, cooling, febrifuge and also acts as tonic for heart and brain.

The bark is sweet, cooling and tonic. It is good in vitiated conditions of Pitta, cough, asthama. It is useful in fevers, urethrorrhea, diaphoresis, convulsions, chronic laryngitis, jaundice and arthritis.

Its therapeutic uses revolve round the properties like alterative, anti-helminthic, diurectic, expectorant, nervine, stomachic and tonic. It is used in the treatment for asthma and nervous dysfunction.

Fenugreek seed has been used for stomach upset, swelling of the upper air passages or throat, appetite, for lowering blood sugar and for softening the stool. It also has been used as a gargle to relieve sore throat and as an external dressing for swelling.

It is used both medicinally and as a stimulant; in addition, the root is thought to have been used as an entheogen among the northern Native Americans. In high doses, it is hallucinogenic.Calamus has been an item of trade in many cultures for thousands of years. Calamus has been used medicinally for a wide variety of ailmet.