Health Benefits of Bhringraj, Uses And Its Side Effects

The best way to use bhringraj for hair is by making a hair oil with it, bhringraj oil has amazing hair benefits. It prevents hair fall, premature greying, strengthens the hair roots, conditions the hair well, prevents split ends, stimulates hair growth, prevents baldness, premature greying and alopecia - in short everything that is needed for a healthy hair.

Bhringraj plants leaves are amazing for treating all minor skin related diseases as it has wonderful anti-bacterial properties. Bhringraj juice is very effective for treating cracked heels and minor skin allergies. To get the bhringraj juice:

• Take the fresh leaves of bhringraj plant
• Wash and pound it in a mortar and pestle as finely as you can
• Now take the pounded mixture in a strainer and press with a spoon to extract the juice completely
• Apply bhringraj juice directly on the affected area continuously for a few days to see results
• This juice also helps in faster healing of wounds and it is best applied when it is fresh.

Heat equal quantities of bhringraj juice and goat’s milk, put few drops of this mixture in nose. Also, mix black pepper powder in bhringraj juice and apply on the forehead. It gives relief from migraine.

To normalize the blood pressure, give 2 teaspoon juice of bhringraj leaves with 1 teaspoon of honey mixed in it, twice a day.

Grind fresh and clean leaves of Bhringraj with 7 black peppers in 2ml paste of leaves and give it to the patient every morning, in an empty stomach. One can give it with sour curd or buttermilk.Within 5-6 days, it cures jaundice.

Apply juice of bhringraj on the infectious ulcers. One can also tie the poultice on the ulcers. In case of ulcers and boils on hand, thumb and fingers apply its thick paste on the ulcer. It helps heal the ulcer fast.

Take powder of Bhringraj and powder of flowers of babool in equal quantities. Add some sugar candy to it. Give this to the diabetes patient with 6 ml of goat’s milk. This is very useful to treat all forms of diabetes.

Grind the leaves of Bhrinraj and apply the paste on the swollen area. The pain condenses on the bitten area. It also relieves the sting and poison too.

2 teaspoon juice of Bhringraj plant if given with little amount of rock salt in it, to the patient thrice a day, relieves Cholera.

We can also use bhringraj while making kajal, we apply the keelanelli juice on the brass plate and place it over a small lamp that is filled unrefined sesame oil. Once the soot is collected, we take it in a plate and mix it with ghee and use as kajal. Kajal made with keelanelli has a cooling effect on the eyes.