Marsh Barbel seeds

Tamil                      :  Neermulli - நீர்முள்ளி

Malayalam             :  Voyal-chullai

Hindi                      :  Talmakhana तल्मखन 

Telugu                   :   Kokila Kshamu

MARSH BARBEL, HYGROPHILIA AURICULATA

             The Marsh Barbel is native to the Indian subcontinent, including Nepal and Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands, as well as to Malaysia, South East Asia and parts of Africa, including South Africa, Senegal, Sudan, Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, and Mali. It has a few synonyms including Hygrophilia schulli and Asteracantha longiflolia and is known in English by many other names including the Temple Plant. It is a member of the Acanthaceae family and as the name suggests, likes to live in wet places. It can grow to 2 meters high or more, and has blue-purple flowers, with upper and lower “lips”. These flowers look a little like violas or wild pansies.

Health Benefits:

         The whole plant is used in traditional medicine systems for a number of ailments. These include impotence and quality of sperm. The powdered seeds are given in milk to improve the male libido, so it is supposedly an aphrodisiac. It is used for liver problems, including jaundice, to treat urinary tract infections and for gout and oedema. It is said to have diuretic qualities. 

         In Ayurvedic medicine, the plant is used for rheumatism, inflammation, jaundice and other liver problems and as a pain-killer.

        Marsh Barbel used in traditional medicine for the treatment of various disorders, which include anasaraca, diseases of the urinogenital tract, dropsy from chronic Bright disease, hyperdipsia, vesical calculi, flatulence, diarrhea, dysentery, leukorrhea, gonorrhea, asthma, blood diseases, gastric diseases, inflammation, rheumatism, painful micturition, menorrhagea. 

         Women with mental disorders and women who are bleeding can get full relief if you drink water tart. If you have mixed seeds with thyme seeds, lotus seed and onions in equal quantities, the masculine energy will get the full effect. The seed can be mixed with semi-colored lactation. 

Nutrition:

  It contains vitamin C and flavonoids, phenolic compounds, saponins, steroid, terpenoids, and cardiac glycosides.