Properties
It is cool, give strength, an appetizer and increases the quantity of milk in mother's breasts It is diuretic causes the formation of excessive wind and phlegm in the body. It increases the quantity of semen, cures plethora and dysentery.

Uses:

1. It is mostly used as a vegetable. Although there are many types of arum calocasia, their properties are approximately the same.
   
   
2. Grinded tender leaves of arum calocasia mixed with powdered cumin seeds cures excessive bile in the body.
   
   
3. Vegetable of arum calocasia increases the quantity of mother's milk.
   
   
4. Drinking the juice extracted from leaves of arum calocasia for three days cures the inflammation while urinating.

Note
Vegetable of arum calocasia leaves increases the humor of wind and phlegm in the body. If the vegetable of arum calocasia is prepared using appropriate edible oil and spices, it is easily digestible and does not create gastric problems.

Bitter gourd (karela) (memordica charantia)

Properties
Bitter gourd is cool loosens up the hardened stool, light, bitter and does not cause the formation of the wind. It eliminates excessive wind, excessive bile and the blood impurities. It is beneficial in many diseases like jaundice, emanation of semen through urine and worms in the stomach.

Uses

1. The juice of bitter groud's leaves mixed in warm water eliminates the worms in the stomach.
   
   
2. If the powdered roots of bitter groud plant is made into a paste and then applied on the face it cures pimples and eczema.
   
   
3. The juice extracted from the leaves of bitter groud mixed with some turmeric powder in it is beneficial in small pox.
   
   
4. Make small pieces of bitter groud. Allow these pieces to dry in the shade. Grind it into powder. Use 6 grams of this powder daily for four months. It will cure diabetes and the problem of sugar.
   
   
5. Take three seeds of each bitter groud and black pepper. Grind it into powder. If this powder in liquid form is given to a child who is vomiting. It will be checked.
   
   
6. Vegetable prepared from bitter groud is beneficial to person having fever.
   
   
7. A patient suffering from piles is benefited if juice of bitter groud leaves mixed with turmeric powder is given to him.
   
   
8. Drinking juice of bitter groud in the morning and in the evening cures many diseases like, worms in the stomach, leprosy, diabetes, jaundice, cough and emanation of semen through urine.

Carrot

Properties
Carrot is sweet, sharp, bitter, hot, an appetizer, and light and checks loose motions. It has curatory effects in many diseases like plethora, piles, sprue and phlegmatic diseases. It also eliminates the excessive humor of wind in the body and worms in the intestines.The seeds of carrot are hot and hence they are believed to cause constipation. Carrot is full of vitamin A.

Uses

1. If a person suffering from loose motion drinks the soup made of boiled carrots he gets relief.
   
   
2. If crushed carrot mixed with wheat flour is applied on the boils or wounds, it acts as an excellent antiseptic compound.
   
   
3. Four to five drops of carrot juice in the nostrils checks hiccups and breathlessness.
   
   
4. Sniffing the crushed carrot checks hiccups too.
   
   
5. The daily use of carrot develops blood. The blood gets purified and skin diseases like eczema, itches boils and pimples are cured. It also gives strength.
   
   
6. Carrot strengthens the vision and makes the liver strong.

Note
Drinking of water immediately after eating carrot causes coughs.

Cauliflower

Properties
It is sweet in taste and stimulating and digestive. It causes the formation of the wind in the body. It is beneficial in many diseases like fever, strangury leprosy cough blood impurities enlarged liver and excessive bile in the body. Cauliflower is more nutritious than cabbage.

Uses

1. It strengthens the uterus of the woman.
   
   
2. Eating the boiled roots of cauliflower cures diarrhea and bleeding diarrhea
   
   
3. A decoction prepared of wholesome cauliflower along with its roots, flower seeds fruit and stems cures strangury.
   
   
4. A wholesome cauliflower along with its roots, flower, seeds fruit ands stems boiled in rice water is beneficial in stomachache.
   
   
5. If dried up roots of cauliflower in its powdered form and mixed with some powdered black pepper is applied on painful tooth gives relief from toothache.

Field pea

Properties
Field pea taste's sweet, is harsh and cool. It helps in having clear motions. It also eliminates the excessive phlegm's and bile's in the body.Vegetables prepared from its leaves is light, easy to digest and eliminates all the three flaws in the body.

Uses

1. Field pea are one of the common vegetables used variedly in India as vegetables, pulses etc.
   
   
2. Eating white onion with raw sugar and some turmeric powder daily in the morning and evening time cures jaundice.
   
   
3. Giving onion with raw sugar to children help them to gain height.
   
   
4. Taking 12 gms of onion juice mixed with the same quantity of honey for 21 days increases virility.
   
   
5. The onion after being crushed and boiled clears phlegm.
   
   
6. Eating onion helps to clear phlegm from the throat and mouth. Teeth becomes white, it sharpens the memory and strengthens the nerves.
   
   
7. One spoonful of onion juice eliminates the worms in the stomach of children.
   
   
8. Applying onion juice on the hair eliminates lice.

French beans
There are three types of french beans, white, red, and black. Their properties are more or less the same.

Properties
French beans are rich, sweet, bitter, satisfying, clears constipation, causes the formation of wind and increases appetite.It also develops the milk in mother's breasts. It has nutritious value.

Uses

1. It is used extensively in a common mans diet in the forms of vegetables, cooked lentils, papads etc.
2. French beans become tastier if it is boiled and then mashed in edible oil.
3. If the tendrils of its creepers are given to animals, their milk giving capacity increases.

Note

• A weak man should use french beans with care because it is very rich.
• Its excessive use along creates flatulence.
• It is not good for a diabetic.

Gum oblibanujm (Kundru) Ivy groud

Properties:- Ivy groud are of two types
a) Sweet ivy groud b) Bitter sweet groud

Sweet ivy groud :-
It is sweet, cool and rich therefore it is beneficial in blood impurities and flatulence. It causes constipation and swelling of stomach due to indigestion.

Bitter ivy groud :-
It helps in evacuation of bowels. It is beneficial in leprosy, nausea, indisposition, cough and fever.

Uses

1. Sweet ivy groud is used as vegetables. Its excessive use can cause loss of intelligence and stammering.
2. Using four to six grams of powdered leaves of bitter ivy groud is beneficial in diabetes.
3. Decoction prepared from the roots of bitter ivy groud stops the emanation of sperm through urine.
4. Powder made from the roots of ivy groud cures leucorrhoea in women.
5. Keeping the juice of ivy groud for sometime in the mouth after chewing it, is beneficial in tongue getting a cut.
6. Juice extracted from a wholesome ivy groud along with its fruit, seeds, roots, stem and flower checks the haemorrhoage during pregnancy.

Note :- Ivy groud affects the genital organs. It has more nourishing value than other vegetables.

Lady's finger

Properties
Lady's finger is sour nutritious and relishing. It increases virility and causes the formation of wind and phlegm in the body.

Uses

1. Eating twenty to twenty five raw lady's fingers daily in the morning strengthens and thickens the semen and also gives strength
2. If the root of lady's finger is eaten with sugar, then it is beneficial in dysentery attended by mucus.
3. Drinking the solution of water in which powder of lady's finger seeds and little sugar have been mixed give relief from inflammation in emanation of semen through urine.
4. Eating the vegetable of lady's finger gives nutrition to the body and cures night blindness.

Note :-
Person suffering from coughs flatulence and indigestion must not eat lady's finger.

Luffa acutangula roxb (turai) (bottle groud)

Properties :-
It is cool & sweet. It is an appetizer but causes flatulence and excessive formation of wind. It eliminates excessive bile in the body.

1. It is mostly used as a vegetable.
   
2. There are two types of "Turai"
   Sweet turai: It has ten stripes on it.
   Bitter turai: it has nine stripes on it.
   
   
3. Although its vegetable is prepared only after tasting its sweetness yet the use of some black pepper and lemon juice increases its taste and flavour. This addition also minimizes its property of causing wind.
   
   
4. Drinking milk or water in which the roots of bottle groud plant have been rubbed, for three days in the morning, cures stones.
   
   
5. The swelling of the lymph gland is cured:
   The roots of bottle groud plant rubbed in cold watre is applied on it.
   Or
   Bottle groud boiled in hot water is applied on it.
   
   
6. If the roots of bottle groud is rubbed in butter made from cow's milk and then applied on the grains which have been bruised by constant rubbing from clothing, it is cured.
   
   
7. Massage done by the juice of bottle groud is beneficial in enlarged spleen, piles and leprosy.

Note :-
Excessive use of bottle groud during rainy season should be avoided because it increases the humor of wind in the body.It causes the formation of phlegm so, even a healthy person should use it cautiously and with garlic, black pepper, and lemon for taste.

Potato

Properties
Potato is cool, rich, harsh and hard to digest. It causes constipation. It is beneficial in plethora. It also causes the formation of excessive phlegm and wind in the body. It gives strength, increases virility and is an appetizer if taken in small quantity.

Uses

1. Potato is very extensively and variedly used as vegetable and in combination with other vegetables like onion, brinjals, cauliflower's and peas etc.
   
   
2. Potato is not used in its raw form. Since it is rich source of carbohydrates, it is very useful for people doing physical labor.
   
   
3. There are many types of potatoes but potato having reddish color is considered to be the best for its nutritious contents.
4. Using potato along with its skins minimizes its property of causing constipation to some extent.

Note :-
Sponge groud cures the formation of wind in small quantity, so its excessive use during autumn season is not beneficial. Its excessive use during autumn also causes the formation of excessive bile in the body and fever as its result.

Fruit of trichonthan thanses dioica (parval)

It is of two types:
1) Sweet fruit of trichonthan thanses dioica.
2) Bitter fruit of trichonthan thanses dioica.

Properties of seet fruit of trichonthan thanses dioica
It is beneficial in chronic fever, jaundice, worms in the stomach and constipation. It gives strength and sexual power and is an appetizer.It also cures cough, blood-impurities, eczema, excessive phlegms, flatulence, and is an eliminator of all the three flaws.

Uses

1. It is commonly used as vegetable.
   
   
2. Make powder by grinding "Trichonthan Thanses Dioica" along with the stem and leaves 6 grams. Make powder of dry ginger 6 grams Mix both the powder and add some honey to it. If this mixture is used daily in the morning and in the evening, it cures fever due to excessive phlegm and the phlegm is ejected out of the body very easily. It is also beneficial in constipation.
   
   
3. Make a mixture of trichonthan thanses dioica powder and barley powder. Add some honey in it. If this mixture is taken by a patient, it will cure him of fever due to excessive bile, thirst, and inflammation.
   
   
4. Make small pieces of trichonthan thanses dioica and grind it to powder.Add powder of wishep's weed and turmeric powder in it. If this mixture is taken, then it gives relief from cold, cough and fever due to excessive phlegm.
   
   
5. Semi liquid fluid prepared from trichonthan thanses dioica powder and coriander seed's powder cures fever due to excessive bile. It is beneficial to massage the body of a patient suffering from fever with the juice extracted from trichonthan thanses dioica.
   
   
6. It is excellent diet for a patient after his recovery from his sickness. But it should be used in small quantity.