Moringa Oleifera

 Family Name : MORINGACEAE 

Botanical Name : MORINGA OLEIFERA 

Common Name : MORINGA, HORSE RADISH TREE, DRUMSTICK TREE, SAHIJAN 

Part Used : ROOTS, SEEDS, LEAVES 

Habitat : Found Through out India. 

Uses : The roots are acrid, digestive, anthelmentic, constipating, anodyne, bitter alexipharmic stimulant and vesicant. They are useful in paralysis, inflammations, fever, cough, cold, bronchitis, pectoral diseases, epilepsy, hysteria. Its leaves are useful in scurvy, vitiated conditions of kapha and vata. The seeds are acrid, bitter, anti inflammatory, purgative, and are useful in neuralgia, inflammations and intermittent fevers.