Muyal cheviyan-Emilia sonchifolia (Linn.) DC

Botanical name:Emilia sonchifolia (Linn.) DC. -Muyal cheviyan

Family : Compositae

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES :Plant pacifies vitiated kapha, vata, conjunctivitis, worm infestations, tonsillitis, bleeding piles, cuts, ulcers intermittent fever and allergy.

Characteristics : Anti-septic, Anti-diarrhoeal, Anthelmintic, Febrifuge Bitter, cool, antipyretic, antitoxic, anti-swelling.

 

PLANT DESCRIPTION :It is commonly known as cupid’s shaving brush.It is a soft annual herb grows up to 40 cm in height. Leaves simple, lyrate –pinnate with large terminal lobe; flowers purplish in corymbose heads, fruits oblong containing many seeds; seeds long, compressed, having terminal tuft of soft hairs for wind dispersal. “This medicinal plant provides excellent remedy for eyes, ears and throat complaints.” .

 

The plant requires well drained soil and is drought resistant once they are established. It is an annual herb with weak or erect stems. Leaves are ovate or obovate. The plant flowers from July to October. The flowers are lavender, purple or pink in color. It occurs in open fields and waste lands. It contains calcium, phosphorous magnesium, sodium and potassium. It contains vitamins like riboflavin and niacin. The herb is used as a folk medicine. According to ayurveda the plant has katu, kasaya and tikta rasa, lakhu and grahi guna healer sheeth veerya.

The plant is effective in treating fever, tonsillitis. juice is a natural for eye diseases. It is also good in conditions like worm infections and allergy.  The herb is useful in treating cough and bronchitis. Applying a paste on the thyroid region helps to cure the swelling in is sometimes used in cases of diabetes.

in Sidda branch of medicine it used to cure intenstinal worms and bleeding pilles.The  whole plant is taken fresh and crushed well, juice is extracted and given in the dose of 5 – 10 ml daily for three days to cure intestinal worms.  the paste of whole plant is given in the dose of 2 – 5 grams preferrably with butter milk for bleeding piles. The decoction of the whole plant is effective for fever.

 

 

 

 

 

Preparation:Use whole herb, wash and dry.

Indications

1. Influenza, fever, upper respiratory tract infection, sore throat, oral ulcer.

2. Pneumonitis.

3. Enteritis, dysentery.

4. Genito-urinary tract infection.

5. Mastitis, orchitis.

6. Wound infection, furunculosis, eczema, traumatic injury.