Botnical Nane: – Vitis vinifera
Family Name: – Vitaceae
Sanskrit Name: – Draksha, Harahura
Hindi: – Munakka, Angur, Dakh, Kishmish
INTRODUCTION
Grapes vine is a popular fruit of a perennial creeper. It is one of the best fruits without any harmful effects. It can be used by anyone be it a patient, healthy person, children or adults. There are several varieties of grapes like, black grapes, small grapes, long grapes, violent grapes. Black grapes are dried and make munakka.
Ripe Fruit: – It is a purgative, cool, beneficial for eyes and nutritious. Its juice is sweet and good for voice. Its helps clean urine and stool. It helps cure thirst, fever, breathing problems and asthma.
MEDICINAL USAGE & HEALTH BENEFITS
FAINTNESS AND UNCONSCIOUSNESS:-
Take equal quantities of grapes and Indian gooseberry, boil and crush them. Mix shunthi churna in it. Give a little amount with honey to the patient.
Take 20gm munakka 10ml each of sugar candy, pomegranate bark and khus- khus. Grind all solid and soak them in 400gm water overnight. Next morning strain the solution and divide into three parts. Give each part to the patient in a day.
HEADACHE: –
Take 7- 9gm munakka. 7gm sugar candy and 7gm liquorice. Grind them all. Give inhalation of this powder to the patient. It cures headache due to pitta and any other disorder.
MOUTH PROBLEMS: –
Take 7gm pieces of munakka, 2-3gm jamun leaves. Prepare the decoction and use it to gargle. It cures any aliment in the mouth.
NASAL BLEEDING: –
Give inhalation of 2drops of grapes juice. It immediately controls bleeding from nose.
FOUL SMELL FROM MOUTH:-
In case of foul smell from mouth due to cough or indigestion, give 4-8gm munakka end every day. It may not control foul smell due to worms in stomach.
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS:-
Take 5gm each of munakka and roasted paddy and soak them in water for 1 hour. After one hour, crush them and strain the solution. Mix 3-3gm each of sugar, honey and ghee in the strained solution and give the patient to lick.
COUGH, BRETHING PROBLEMS: –
Prepare decoction of 7-9 munakka pieces and Haritaki. In c 30-50 gm of decoction, add 20-25 gm sugar and 1 teaspoon full honey. Give this to patient.
DRY COUGH:-
Take equal quantities of grapes, Indian gooseberry, dates, and black pepper. Grind them all give this paste to the patient.
TUBERCULOSIS: –
Prepare paste of ghee, dates, sugar candy honey and long pepper and give to the patient. It helps cure voice hoarseness, cold and fever.
INFLAMMATORY COUGH:-
Take 5 pieces of munakka 20pieces of long pepper and 40gm sugar and 1gm catechu. Mix them all and give to the patient with honey, daily.
CARDIAC PAIN:-
In case of pain in heart, take 2part munakka’s pulp, 1part honey 1\2 part cloves. Mix them all and give to the patient for a few days.
PURGATION:-
Take 5 -10 munakka pieces. Clean them and remove the seeds and boil them in 100gm milk. Give this boiled milk to the patient.
Take 15-20 munakka pieces, 4 pieces of big, 2gm each of aniseed, sanaya, pulp of amaltas and rose flowers. Prepare decoction of all these together and give the decoction to the patient in the morning with 5gm jam of rose petals.
COLIC:-
Prepare decoction of grapes and Malabar nut. Give 30-50 mg of this decoction to the patient. It cures liver pain due to pitta kapha.
ACIDITY:-
Take 7 gm munakka and 3gm of aniseed. Soak them 50ml of water. In the morning crush this mixture strain it and drink.
STONE:-
Take branch of black grape plant and burn it to ashes. Take 5gm of this ash and mix it in water, give this solution to the patient twice a day.
SKIN PROBLEMS:-
In spring, the branches of grape plant produce a liquid which is very beneficial in curing skin problems.
POISON OF DHATURA: –
Give 5gm grape vinegar with 50ml milk, repeatedly.
POISON OF ARSENIC SULPHIDE: –
Let the patient vomit and then give 5-10 gm kishmish cooked in 150ml milk.
