kari ʤʰanki

Devanagari Script

कारि जांकि

Phonetic

[kari ʤʰanki]

English: Translation

Lygodium flexuosum (L.) Sw.

Hindi: Translation

कालाजहा / भुतराज

Semantic Domain

Plants, trees and other vegetation

Health, well-being and sickness

Notes

Medicinal values for: headache, fever, gastric problems, dysentery.

Root: Roots (rehet) are ground up (rid) and the paste is applied on the forehead (moloŋ) to cure headache.
The paste is also used in case of fever (rua).
It is given with sugar to cure abdominal pain due to gastric issues.
The root (rehet) is powdered (lubuʔ) and given with water (daʔ) to cure blood dysentery.
In case a person is poisoned by someone (bis patri) it acts as an antidote to disable the effect of poison given to the person.

Source

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