This fruit is sweet, cooling, strengthening,aphrodisiac and unctuous. It cures thirst, burning sensations, fever, shortness of breath, 'heat in the blood', wasting of the body due to vata or pitta, indigestion, alcoholism, bitter taste in the mouth and cough. The leaves are used in treating diarrhoea; and the sap of young branches, in skin diseases. Kept in the mouth, raisins allay thirst, heat, cough and hoarseness. The are also soaked overnight and chewed the next morning for all the above benefits, and are good for anyone, even pregnant women.
References:
Ayurveda Life Health and Longevity by Robert E. Svoboda - Penguin Books.
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