Introduction
Name–Sanskrit – Vatad, Vadam, Netropamphal, Suphal, Vatatrairi. Hindi-almonds. Gujarati – Almonds.
Marathi – Badam. Bengal – Bilayati Badam. Konkan – Emond, Amendi. Urdu-Badam Shiri. English – Alm-
Almond Tree. Latin Name – Prunus Amygdalus (Prunus amygdanus). Amygdalus Communis (Amygdalus communis)
Almonds It does not naturally grow in India but are imported from Europe and Turkey, with some cultivation in Kashmir and Punjab. Ayurvedic practitioners regard almond as warm, oily, and heavy to digest It has aphrodisiac, mild laxative properties and helps treat conditions like bile, leprosy, and constipation.
Almond oil is beneficial for headaches, burning sensations, bile disorders, and as a nutrient for the body’s tissues.
Unani medicine suggests that sweet almonds are particularly good for the intestines, brain, and body, while bitter almonds are useful for treating swelling, bronchitis, and skin issues. Almond oil is also used to treat kidney pain, spleen inflammation, and hysteria.
Description
Almond trees are not grown in India. It comes here from Europe and Turkey. In India, it is cultivated in Kashmir and Punjab. But the almonds grown here are not as good as the foreign almonds. Its tree is of medium height. Its leaves are somewhat brown and the flowers are white. Everyone knows its fruit. It has two varieties. One is sweet and the other is bitter.
Properties, Defects and Effects
Ayurvedic opinion– According to Ayurvedic opinion, almond fruit is hot, oily, heavy to digest, aphrodisiac, mild laxative, destroys vata and bile and is beneficial in leprosy. Its oil is mild laxative, aphrodisiac, relieves headache, is beneficial in bile and vata, soothes internal burning sensation in the body and prevents semen loss.
According to Nighantu Ratnakar, almonds are purgative, hot, heavy, phlegm-producing, smooth, tasty, astringent, sperm-producing, wind-destroyer and hot. Raw almonds are purgative, heavy, bile-producing and destroy the anger of phlegm, wind and bile. Ripe almonds are sweet, smooth, nutritious, sperm-producing, phlegm-producing and destroy blood-bile and wind-bile. Dry almonds are sweet, metal-enhancing, smooth, strength-producing, nutritious, phlegm-producing and remove wind-bile.
Foreign almonds are more nutritious and oily than the almonds found in India. Its paste is prepared and given to diabetes. Before preparing its paste, it should be soaked in hot water overnight. By doing this, a new type of essence is produced in it. This essence is stimulating and helpful for digestion. Almond paste should not be ground too much. Because over-grinding destroys its digestive properties. In diseases of the respiratory organs and genitals, almonds are ground and given along with other medicines. The paste prepared by mixing soaked almonds, asgandh and pinar with ghee, milk and sugar is an excellent chemical. Giving this paste to pale-skinned women suffering from back pain gives good relief. This paste increases the milk of women and is beneficial in leucorrhoea. The quantity of this paste is 2 to 4 tolas (approximately 23 to 47 grams).
Almonds are used for many purposes, both internally and externally. Grinding it with vinegar and making a plaster of it is used to relieve neuralgia. Making an eye ointment from it is used to improve the eyesight. Grinding almonds and making its liquid is given with peppermint to relieve phlegm and cough. It is also considered to be a diuretic and dissolve stones and is also used to remove obstructions of the liver and spleen. Lice inside the head
It is used to kill lice. Making a wick of it and keeping it in the uterus relieves painful menstruation and the pain caused by it. Its poultice works as a valuable ointment on incurable boils and skin diseases.
The root of this plant is considered a rice transformer and is used for both internal and external applications.
Almond juice mixed with sugar is given to relieve phlegm and cough. Almonds mixed with figs are given as a mild laxative and to relieve intestinal pain.
Unani Opinion For Intestines, Brain & Whole Body
Sweet almond is nutritious for the intestines, brain and the whole body. It is also useful for chest and liver complaints, cough and intestinal colic. It is an aphrodisiac. Its burnt peel strengthens the teeth. Its sharp sweetness, mild laxative, nutritious for the brain, beneficial for fainting and liver ailments, relieves morning cough, clears the throat and relieves colic pain.
The kernels of bitter almonds are bad tasting, beneficial for swelling, dropsy, cephalalgia and weakness of the eyes. It is also considered useful for bronchitis, old wounds, wet itching and poison of mad dog. The oil of bitter almonds is a mild laxative, anthelmintic and heals wounds. It relieves pain of anus, liver and spleen. It is useful in chronic gonorrhoea, earache, throat pain and skin diseases.
Almonds are temperate in summer and winter. It is a very good food for the body. It produces new blood and purifies and cleanses the old blood. Its cold extract with sugar relieves dry cough. Giving it stops the bleeding with phlegm. It is also useful for asthma and pneumonia. It is also given in inflammation of the urinary tract and goiter. Giving it with figs relieves constipation.
It gives strength to the brain, sex power and eyesight. Taking almond kernels with 6 tolas (approximately 70 grams). of sugar candy at night before going to bed removes brain weakness. It is also beneficial in burning sensation in intestines and rectum. It is useful in dysentery which occurs due to accumulation of greasy stools in the stomach. Its consumption produces new semen and removes the heat and defects of old semen. Its jam produces blood and makes the body fat. It is a nutritious thing for the kidneys. Eating roasted almonds removes laziness and looseness of the stomach.
Sweet almond oil is light and creates a lot of moisture in the brain. It removes headache. It is beneficial in typhoid and pneumonia. It removes constipation. By including it in laxative medicines, their reaction defect is removed. Its continuous use is very beneficial in hysteria. If a pregnant woman takes fresh sweet almond oil in the quantity of 1 tola every morning with dog milk or in any other way after the ninth month, then the child is born very easily.
