THE USEFULNESS OF THE BASHOK LEAF

 THE USEFULNESS OF THE BASHOK LEAF

    Md. Abdul Mannan Yaqubi

'Adatoda Basica' is the name of
            Bashok's leaf
It will be a booklet to write its 
             Usefulness in brief.

The leaf, flowers and fruits of this tree 
             dried or fresh either
Fail to cure sort of complicated
             Diseases never.

It contains Basicin which is
        An acidic substance.
And also a herbal oil which has
         No less importance.

The extract of the Bashak leaf cures
          Cough, cold and fever.
So its merits in the country side
             Remain ever conquer.

Its acidic substance always prevents
            Fungus from affecting,
And Insects can not harm if this leaves
             Is used for rapping.

Taking two spoonful juice of it with
             One spoonful honey,
Must be curative of cough of the Jill
              And the sonny.

Contuse twenty leaves and boil them
           In two cups of water,
When it reduces to one, cup get down
           It from the fire.

If you gargle with this water, pyorrhoea
        Won't affect your teeth,
And saving your gum from oemeda is
        Its another feat.

Before half an hour of bath, rub this 
       Leaf's juice on the head,
And use it for some days to cause
      The mice on the head dead.

Crushing it poultice in aerola
       And urticarias,
And use it for some days to be cured 
       Of the diseases.

Taking two spoonful juice of its leave
           With equal honey must,
Cure dry cold, congestion if lung
            And asthma so fast.

You can also add two spoonful
             Juice of conticurry.
And have magic remedy of disease 
              In a hurry.

Crush the Bashok flower to take 
         Two spoonful juice only,
And make candy sherbet with it 
          To drink so tastefully.

The man having a great pain 
          During the urination,
Can drink this sherbet a few days
          For recuperation.

In hundred ml. water, boil ten gram
            Bashok root well,
Get down it when it decreases to
             Twenty five ml.

Filter it and take it twice a day
              If you have fever,
And you will find that it will remove 
              Your fever sooner.

One tea spoonful honey with two
      Tea spoonful  juice of it,
Take everyday to see how it goes 
       Against Jaundice to beat.

If you smoke of the dried leaf 
     Of Bashok like the Biri,
your lungs, from all respiration problems,
       Will remain free.

The juice of the Bashok's leave removes
         The ill smell of sweat,
When the skin of your whole body is
           Smeared smoothly with it.

Crush twelve tender Bashok leaves
           With a piece of turmeric,
And smear it on the ringworm of which
           Healing will be quick.

If the complexion of your body  
         Is not fair really,
Smear its juice with shell lime on the skin
          To make it lovely.

keep four Bashok leaves for four hours
           in a jar of water,
It will make the water pure which can be
            drunk without fear.

The man who has spasm, should drink 
      The juice of Bashok leaf, 
And it will assist to make him from
        His disease relief.

The Bashok leaf is a useful leaf
       Which is known to all,
So, my dear people, cultivate Bashok 
        More in Bengal. 
                ........ 
            
      Date: 09- 11- 2018