Benefits Of Nochi plant

Dear friends

Garden Group Gathering wishes to thank the Mayor Mr.Saidai Doraiswamy and the Superintendent, Corporation park for supplying the "Nochi plant" for distribution to 100  resident members. Rainy days may be round the corner. Please avail this opportunity to get rid of mosquitoes. Collect your free "Nochi plant"

A few facts about "Nochi" - gathered from internet 

The star in your backyard

How do you get rid of those pesky insects with an uncanny ability to bite your elbows when your hands are busy? How do you combat mosquitoes? In what must be a multi-crore industry, we fend them off with nets, coils, liquids and electronic traps and in times of desperation, with deadly chemicals sprayed under tables and beds.  For the community programme, instead of fogging  with strange-smelling fumes,  we can shoo mosquitoes away with a bushy, ornamental plant called “Nochi”.

Nochi plant otherwise called “white chaste tree” in english or  Nirgundi in sanskrit is decorated with  blue flowers. The leaves,seeds and root bark are very useful and have high medicinal value. They grow to a bushy tree with a height of more than 6 meters.

Useful for many medical conditions : It has analgesic, anti fungal, anti bacterial and ant inflammatory properties. Valuable in skin infection and oozing wound and inflammation. The flowers are used in diarrhea, cholera, fever, diseases of the liver and are also recommended as a cardiac tonic.

Boil a bunch of leaves and carefully add a heated brick to keep it bubbling. Inhale the vapour with a bed-sheet covering your head — a soothing remedy for respiratory infection and headaches. For arthritic pain, tie crushed leaves, pounded garlic and bran into a kizhi (bundle), heat it and apply it on joints. Extract the leaf juice, boil it with some oil, bottle it and rub it on the forehead and neck to relieve headache. A friend suggested  “Why do we rush for antibiotics when we have remedies with no side-effects?”

It has other properties too :

A paste made out of “Nochi” plant for spleenomegaly

Leaf decoction as diuretic

Nochi leaf pillow is used for sinusitis and head ache

Fruits of Nochi are used for de worming

Decoction of the root is used for “Vatha”, urethritis and abdominal pain

Mosquito repellent – Leaves are burnt in a heap which proves very useful to get rid of Mosquitoes

Of great interest to Chennai Corporation and its mosquito-menaced citizens is the plant's ability to repel the winged invader. To make it an effective weapon to kill mosquitoes, you need to smoke the leaves, but to wipe out mosquitoes completely you have to prevent water stagnation, garbage and pollution.”