CROWN PLANT (MADAR) GIVES RELIEF FROM ABDOMINAL PAINS

CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA R. BR.

The Crown plant is a medium-sized shrub which grows about 3 metres high. The bark is pale. The leaves exhibiting opposite phyllotaxy are heart-shaped, cottony on the under surface and pointed at the tip. The flowers are simple or compound, axillary or subterminal. The seeds are ovate with white-silky coma or floss. It grows wild in the tropical countries of Asia.

Medicinal use:

• Gives relief from abdominal pains.
• Ulcers and other skin diseases.
• Earache.

How to use:

• The leaves are heated over a naked flame and applied as a dry stimulant for abdominal pains.
• The root is used as a poultice in ulcers and other skin diseases.
• The juice of the young floral buds is used for earaches.

Parts used:
The root, leaves, and floral buds.

Dose:
As indicated above.

Caution:
The roots and leaves are used only externally.