AMMAAN PACHARISI (BOTANICALA NAME: EUPHORBIA HIRTA)

               AMMAAN PACHARISI (BOTANICALA NAME: EUPHORBIA HIRTA)

Ammaan Pacharisi is a small herb found in the banks of the river, lake sides and in garden and Paddy fields. During rainy season, it grows abundantly. This herb is widely known as snake weed or asthma weed by siddha experts. Due care should be exercised to identify this herb. In gardens the Ammaan Paccharisi plants are grown as weeds. They are removed by the farmers unknowingly its medicinal values.

This herb is called and recognized by Siddha Saints as ' VELLIPASHPAM.'

Curative properties and home remedies:

• Pluck the fresh young leaves of this plants and wash them. Cut into pieces and saute in ghee and cook with green dal or urid dal as keerai kootu. It is tasty and of high medicinal use for mouth ulcers and stomach ulcers and chapped lips.
• The leaves saute with gingelly oil or ghee and prepare as chutney and intake of this chutney with rice will cure constipation and make slow down the body temperature.
• The fine paste of this leaves can be taken mixed with the buttermilk, in the empty stomach in the morning daily for a week will cure the white discharge of women.
• The flowers of this plant are collected and ground to a fine paste and mixed in the milk and daily intake of this mixed milk in the morning for a week will induce secretion of milk. This is an excellent home remedy for lactating mothers.
• Application of the paste of the leaves will cure the boils and swellings quickly.
• Application of the milk secreted by the plant when pluck the leaves or cut the stem over the warts and it will fall off withing couple of four days.
• It helps to build up stamina too
• Its milk is applied around the nail suffered with nail bed infection called as Paronychia. In Tamil this infection is called as Negachuthi. It cures this infection and swelling.
• In school-hood age, the village children do a magic with this milk. They draw a sketch with this milk in this paper and show the drawing to their elder parents or friends. When they told them that no drawing in the paper. The children heat under the bottom of the drawing paper, the clear sketch will appear on the paper.