Bael: 87 Amazing Uses, Benefits, Dosage and Side Effects

Last Updated on December 28, 2023 by admin

Introduction:

Bael is an ancient tree. Its old yellow fruits hanging on its tree become green again. Its leaves remain green till six months if these are kept after plucking. Its properties also remain as they were before. The shadow of bael tree is cool and restorative. So, it is considered a holy tree.

Bael: Name in Different Languages

• Hindi             : Bael, Vili, Shree phal
• Sanskrit        : Bilya, Shree phal, Putivat, Sheelpatra, Laxmi Putra, Shivesht
• Gujarati          : Bail, Bili
• Marathi         : Bail
• Bengali         : Bail
• Telugu       : Bilveyu, Moredu
• Arabic            : Safarjale
• Urdu                : Bails
• Tamil               : Bilubam
• Botanical name : Aegle marmelos (1) correa
• Surname        : Rutaceae
• English       : Bael, Bail fruit

Bael Tree Structure:

 Its trees are 25-30 feet high and 3-4 feet broad. Its three leaves are jointed to each other and there is a smell in these leaves. Its fruits are yellow, dusty and round in 2-4 inches diameter. Its fruit contains a large number of hard but small seeds.

Bael Medicinal Properties:

Nature:

Its nature is hot. Its fruit contains tannic acid, flyable oil, bitter and greasy substance. Its root and bark have teenin and a substance which reduces sugar. The pulp of bael fruit contains morshelinies. Its seeds contain yellow oil which is a very good purgative.

Quality:

Its fruit is expectorant and eliminates vatta. It is tasty, stimulant and peptic. Bael is useful for heart and makes the blood thick. It brings the phlegm out and reduces urine and sugar. Bael is bitter but nutritive. It use is very beneficial in diarrhoea, blood diarrhoea, diabetes, dysentery, leucorrhoea, menorrhagia and blood piles. Its fruit is small, bitter, pungent, stimulant, greasy and hot. It is anodyne and provides power to the intestines. It is an efficacious medicine in dysentery, diarrhoea and arthritis. It eliminates vatta and phlegm.

The half ripen fruit of bael is small, bitter, pungent, hot, greasy, contractive and peptic. It eliminates phlegm and vatta. It is beneficial in heart problems. Its fruit’s pulp and seed’s oil end heat and eliminate Vatta. Well ripen fruit of bael is bitter, juicy and sweet and takes time in digestion. It causes burning sensation and stomach gas. It is a good purgative and provides power to the heart.

Leaves of its tree: Its leaves are peptic and contractive. It is antiphlogistic and reduces swelling of the wound as well as diabetes. Its leaves cure tridoshas (vatta, pitta and kapha) and are beneficial in ascites, jaundice, fever and squint. The leaves of this tree bring phlegm out and alleviate poisoning.

Root and Bark: The root and bark of bael tree are small but sweet. Their use is beneficial in vomiting, Tridoshas (Vaata, Pitta and Cuffa), nerves fibers’ problems, fever, diarrhoea, dysentery, sprue and strangury. These provide relief in pain and end the weakness of heart. These cause intoxication and increase appetite.

Dosing:

Appropriate bael dose depends on several factors:

• Age
• Health status
• Other medical conditions

Safety precautions:

• Natural products are not always safe
• Dosing is important
• Follow product label directions
• Consult a healthcare professional before using

Bael Uses and Benefits:

1. Headache:

• Grind dry root of bael tree with a little water to prepare paste. Applying this thick paste on the forehead provides relief in headache.
• Grind about 6 grams bael with water or goat’s milk and drink it regularly for 10 days. Its use stops headache.
• Immerse a cloth in the juice of bael properly and make a bandage by it. Put this bandage on the head. Headache disappears by its use.

2. Lice: Clean half covering of its ripe fruit like katori and fill sesame oil mixing with camphor in it. Apply this oil in the hair to destroy lice. The victim gets rid of lice after the use of this oil.

3. Cataract: Apply ghee on the leaves of bael tree and toast them thereafter tie them on the eyes. In addition to, drop the juice of bael leaves in the eyes and tie its leaves paste on the eyelids as well. This formula cures several eye diseases.

4. Night blindness:

• Grind 10 grams fresh leaves of bael tree with 7 black peepers and filter it in 100 ml water. Mix 25 grams sugar or sugar-candy in above mixture and drink it twice a day. Soak bael leaves in water overnight then wash eyes with this water. It provides relief in night-blindness.
• Mix 10 grams paste of bael leaves, 6 grams cow’s ghee and 1 gram camphor together. Rub this mixture in a copper bowl until it changes into collyrium. Apply this collyrium in the eyes for getting relief. Washing eyes with cow urine in the morning also provides relief.

5. Deafness:

• Grind soft leaves of bael tree with a good cow’s urine and mix 4 folds sesame oil and 16 folds goat milk in it.  Then heat it on low flame and store. Dropping this oil into the ears daily provides relief in deafness, tinnitus aureum, dryness and itching of the ears.
• Mix equal quantity of dry ginger, oil of bael leaves, black pepper, long pepper, costus root, root of long pepper, juice of bael’s root and cow’s urine together. Boil this mixture on low flame then filter it and store in a bottle. This oil is called “Badhirata harit tel”. Dropping this oil into the ears cures all the diseases of the ears.
• Grind the leaves of bael tree with cow’s urine and boil it in goat’s milk and oil. Dropping this oil into the ears provides relief in deafness.
• Extract oil of the ripe seeds of bael and drop it into the ears. Its use is beneficial in the treatment of deafness.

6. Tuberculosis: Make the powder by grinding the root of bael tree, malabar nut and dry fruits of prickly-pear 4 parts each and dry ginger, black peeper and long peeper 1 part each together. Boil 20 grams this powder in half kilogram water until it remains only one fourth and then take it mixing with honey twice a day. Its use provides quick relief in tuberculosis, asthma and vomiting.

7. Pain in the heart: Mix 5 grams cow ghee in 1 gram juice of bael leaves. Taking this mixture mixing with honey provides quick relief in heart pain.

8. Stomach pain:

• Grind 10 grams leaves of the bael tree with black pepper. Mix 10 grams sugar-candy in this paste and prepare syrup by taking above mixture. Drinking this syrup thrice a day ends stomachache.
• Grind the root of bael tree, castor root, root of white lead wort and dry ginger together. Boil this preparation until it remains 1\8^th portion. Mix a little toasted asafetida and 1 gram rock salt in this decoction. Taking 20-25 ml this decoction provides relief in vatta and stomach pain caused by phlegm.

9. Burning sensation, thirst, indigestion, acidity and diabetes:

• Soak 20 grams leaves of the bael in 500 ml water for three hours and store it. Drink 20 ml this water at the regular interval of 2 hours to soothe internal burning sensation.
• If there is burning sensation in the chest, grind 20 grams leaves of the bael tree with water and filter this water. Mix a little sugar-candy in this preparation and drink it 3-4 times a day. Its use provides relief.
• Mix black pepper and rock salt each one gram in 10 ml juice of bael leaves. Drinking this mixture thrice a day provides relief in burning sensation of the stomach.

10. Anorexia:

• Mix the powder of the bael seeds, small pepper, bamboo manna and sugar-candy 2 grams each together. Thereafter, mix 10 ml ginger juice and a little water in it. Boil this mixture on low flame until it thickens and lick it 4 times a day. Its use is beneficial in anorexia.
• Grind 100 grams powder of bael seeds with 20 grams ginger and mix 50 grams sugar as well as put 20 grams cardamom powder in it. Keep this powder. Take half spoon of this powder with lukewarm water after taking meals twice a day. Its use makes the digestion-activity normal and increases appetite.
• Eating ripe fruit of the bael provides relief in anorexia and fever.

11. Sprue:

• Grind 10 grams powder of bael seeds; powder of dry ginger and old jiggery each 6 grams together. Taking 3 grams this mixture with whey 3-4 times a day provides relief in sprue. Only whey should be taken in meal during this process.
• Make the powder by grinding 10 to 20 grams seeds of bael and tellicherry bark (kuda) together. Immerse this powder in 150 ml water at night. On the next morning, grind this mixture with water and filter. Taking this preparation proves beneficial in sprue.
• Toast 10 to 20 grams raw fruit of the bael and mix a little sugar and honey with bael’s pulp (marrow). Eating this pulp provides relief in sprue.
• Mix equal quantity of raw bael’s pulp and powder of dry ginger together. Mix double quantity old jiggery (gur) in the above mixture to make a paste. Take this paste followed by whey. Its use cures the disease named sprue.
• Boil the pulp of bael, nut grass, five leaved roseway, gum of silk cotton and pauonia odorata with nanny goat’s milk. Filter above mixture and drink. Its use is beneficial in sprue.
• The syrup of ripen bael fruit is the best medicine for the treatment of amoebic dysentery. Taking this syrup cures sprue quickly.  
• Taking the syrup of bael fruits cures sprue.
• Grind bael fruit, gum of silk cotton, pauonia odorata, nut grass, holarrhena antidysentrica wall and the bark of costus root together. Filter this mixture through cloth and take. Its use cures this disease named sprue. 

12. Dysentery and sprue:

• Mix equal quantity of jiggery (gur), pulp of bael’s raw fruit, sesame oil and dry ginger together. Give 10 to 20 grams this mixture to the patient who has been suffering from stomach ache caused by gas and he wants to evacuation of stool frequently. But he evacuates nothing if evacuates, stool comes with amoebic substance. This mixture should be taken twice a day. Its use provides relief in amoebic dysentery.
• Mix equal quantity of the bael seeds and sesame together. Taking this mixture with curd’s cream or ghee provides relief sprue.
• Taking 3 grams powder of pulp of bael’s raw fruit and 2 grams sesame with water twice a day provides relief.

13. Infantile diseases: Give 5 to 10 milliliters pulp of raw fruit of bael and decoction of Indian gooseberry’s stones to the child patient thrice a day. Its use proves beneficial in many diseases.

14. Bascillary dysentery:

• Toast raw and complete fruit of bael and grind it with its peels then extract juice of it and mix sugar-candy in it. Drinking this juice 1-2 times a day for 10-15 days checks chronic diarrhoea.
• Mix equal quantity of bael seeds, catechu, seeds of mango stone, powder of spogel seeds and almond’s kernel together. Taking 3-4 spoons of this mixture with sugar or sugar-candy regularly provides relief in chronic diarrhoea, bascillary dysentery and dysentery.
• Make the powder by grinding equal quantity of bael seeds and kernels of mango seeds together. Taking 2 to 4 grams this powder with rice water or cold water twice a day prevents diarrhoea.
• Drinking bael syrup twice a day provides relief in bascillary dysentery. Mix sugar in bael syrup and drink. Its use proves beneficial in bascillary dysentery.
• Mix curd’s cream, sesame oil and ghee with bael juice. Taking this mixture regularly provides quick relief.
• Blood diarrhoea:
• Taking 50 grams pulp of bael fruit with 20 grams jiggery (gur) thrice a day prevents blood diarrhoea.
• Grind 2 grams powder of bael seeds and 1 gram powder of liquorice with 20 ml rice’s water. Mix sesame, sugar and honey 3 grams each in above mixture. Taking this mixture 2-3 times a day is good remedy in the treatment of blood diarrhoea caused by bile.
• Make the powder by grinding 1 part of seeds of the bael, 1 part coriander and 2 parts sugar-candy together. Taking 2 to 6 grams this powder with fresh water twice a day provides relief.
• Toast raw fruit of the bael in the fire of cow dung until its fruits’ peel blackens. Take 10-20 grams its pulp thrice a day mixing with sugar candy. Its use prevents blood diarrhoea.
• Toast or dry raw fruit of bael. Eating it daily prevents blood diarrhoea gradually.
• Taking the pulp of the bael fruit with jiggery (gur) is beneficial in blood diarrhoea.
• Mix jiggery (gur) with bael fruit and make tablet of this mixture. Taking this tablet prevents blood diarrhoea.

15. Diarrhoea:

• Toast raw fruit of bael and eat its 10 to 20 grams pulp with sugar-candy 3-4 times a day. Its use provides relief in diarrhoea and Bascillary dysentery.
• Make fine powder by grinding 50 grams seeds of bael’s dry fruit and 20 grams white catechu together. Mix 100 grams sugar-candy in this powder. Taking about one and half grams powder 3-4 times a day provides relief in all the types of diarrhoea.
• Boil 200 grams pulp of bael fruit in 4 liter water until one liter water remains and filter it. Thereafter mix 100 grams sugar-candy in it. Fill this water into a bottle and keep it. Taking 10 to 20 grams this mixture with 500 milligrams toasted dry ginger provides relief. If someone has been suffering from diarrhoea, mix opium equal to kidney-bean in the above mixture and give to the victim. Its use provides relief in all the types of diarrhoea only by 3-4 doses.
• Grind 10 grams powder of bael seeds with rice water and mix a little sugar-candy in it. Give this mixture to the pregnant woman 2-3 times a day. Its use provides relief in diarrhoea.
• Grind 5 grams bael seeds with aniseed juice. Give this mixture to the afflicted child 3-4 times a day. Its use stops green and yellow loose motions.
• Grind bael seeds and gum of bastard teak each one gram and 2 grams sugar-candy with a little water. Boil this mixture on low flame until it changes into thick paste. Give this paste to the affected child to lick. Its use provides relief in diarrhoea.

16. Bilious diarrhoea: Taking bael jam regularly checks diarrhoea caused by bile. Eating bael jam daily provides relief in all the diseases of the stomach.

17. Thirst, vomiting, inflammation, constipation and indigestion:

• Crush the pulp of bael’s ripe fruit in cold water and filter it. Mix sugar-candy, cardamom, clove, black pepper and camphor in above mixture to prepare syrup. Drinking this syrup provides relief in vomiting, burning sensation, constipation and indigestion. It also quenches over thirst. The person who is the victim of constipation should take it with the meal. Its use is beneficial.
• Crush 100 grams pulp of bael fruit and filter it. Mix a little sugar in it or mix sugar with curd and take. Its use breaks constipation and inflammation of the stomach.

18. Colic pain: Take 10-20 grams pulp of soft fruit or pulp of bael with jiggery (gur). Its use is very useful if the patient has been suffering from blood diarrhoea and stomach diseases. It also provides relief in pain caused by, amoebic dysentery and colic pain.

19. Spermatorrhoea: Taking 14 to 28 milliliters juice of bael leaves mixing with honey thrice a day cures Spermatorrhoea.

20. Blood piles:

• Mix equal quantity of sugar-candy with the powder of bael pulp. Taking 4 grams this mixture with cold water provides relief.
• If someone has been suffering from pain caused by piles’ warts, make a good decoction by boiling the root of the bael tree. Allow to affected patient to sit in this lukewarm decoction. This formula provides quick relief.
• Taking 2 grams powder of pulp of bael’s raw fruit and 1 gram powder of dry ginger thrice a day provides relief in blood piles.

21. Cholera and vomiting:

• Grind 10 grams mango seeds with 10 grams bael pulp and boil in 500 ml water until it remains only 100 ml. Thereafter mix honey and sugar-candy in it. Taking 5 to 20 ml mixture according to wish regularly provides relief in cholera and vomiting.
• Grind 1 to 4 grams pulp of bael fruit and tinospora together and boil it in half liter water until it remains only 250 ml. Then filter and drink its a little quantity many times a day. If the state of the patient of cholera is serious, mix nutmeg, camphor and date-palm in above decoction. Give this preparation in a little quantity to the affected person to drink many times a day. Its use provides quick relief in cholera and vomiting.

22. Diabetes (Sugar):

• Grind 10 to 20 grams fresh leaves of the bael tree and mix 5-7 black peppers in it. Take this mixture with water on empty stomach in the morning regularly to get relief in diabetes.
• Taking 10 ml juice of bael leaves daily in the morning is useful for the patient of diabetes.
• Soak the leaves of the bael tree, turmeric, tinospora, myrolelans (Harar), beleric myrobalan (Bahera) and Indian gooseberry (amla) 6 grams each with water in a pot of soil or glass at night. On the next morning, crush them properly and filter it. Drink its half quantity twice a day for 2 months regularly provides relief in diabetes.
• Grind 10 leaves of the bael tree and equal leaves of neem tree with 5 basil leaves together. Make tablets of this paste. Taking this tablet with water daily in the morning provides relief.
• Grind 10-11 fresh leaves of bael tree with water and drink. Its use provides relief in diabetes caused by constipation.
• Grind leaves of bael tree and extract juice by squeezing with the help of cloth. Taking 10 ml this juice daily reduces sugar in diabetes.
• Diabetes is controlled by drinking the juice of bael leaves regularly.
• Grind 5 fresh leaves of bael tree and 10 seeds of black pepper together. Take this preparation after filtering like syrup daily in the morning. Its use controls diabetes.
• Make the powder by grinding dry root of bael tree. Take 1 gram this powder with half spoon juice of bael leaves. Its use provides relief.
• Taking 100 ml juice of bael leaves mixing with honey is a very efficacious medicine for the treatment of diabetes.
• Make the powder by grinding dried leaves of bael tree, aloe vera, ghee, asclepias geminata (gudmar), stone of black berry and leaves of bitter gourd 50 grams each together. Taking 10 grams this powder with water regularly controls diabetes.

23. Jaundice:

• Mix half gram powder of black peppers in 10 to 30 ml juice of bael’s soft leaves. Taking this preparation twice a day provides relief in jaundice.
• Apply bael leaves juice on affected part after heating it. Or drink the decoction of its leaves to get relief in jaundice and swelling caused by jaundice.
• Mix powder of black pepper in the juice of bael leaves. Taking this mixture cures jaundice.

24. Ascites: Taking 25 to 50 ml juice of bael’s fresh leaves mixing with 1 to 1.5 grams powder of small pepper provides relief in Ascites.

25. Diabetes mellitus: Grind 10 grams bael pulp and 5 grams dry ginger together. Boil this preparation in 400 ml water until it remains one eighth. Drinking this decoction twice a day provides relief within 5 days.

26. Strangury:

• Grind the pulp of bael’s fresh fruit and filter it with milk. Mix cubeb powder in this mixture and take. Its use is very beneficial in chronic strangury.
• Make the powder by grinding 6 grams fresh and soft leaves of bael tree, 3 grams white cumin seeds and 6 grams sugar-candy together. Take this powder and thereafter drink water. Its use cures all urinary problems within 6 days.
• Grind 20-25 grams root of bael tree and soak it into 500 ml water at night. On the next morning, crush above mixture and filter it. Mix sugar-candy in this mixture and drink for the treatment of strangury.
• Grind the root of bael tree and root of cassia fistula 25 grams each together. Boil it in 500 ml water until it remains only 125 ml water then drink it daily in the morning, it provides relief within three days.

27. Weakness:

• Take the powder of bael seeds with sugar-candy mixed milk. Its use ends blood deficiency, physically and sperm disability.
• Lick 3 grams powder of bael leaves mixing with a little honey twice a day provides relief in sperm disability.
• Mix powder of cumin seeds and milk in the juice or tea of bael leaves. Take this preparation regularly to end the weakness.
• Quantity:

20 to 25 ml           Juice of bael leaves

6 grams                Powder of cumin seed

20 grams              Sugar-candy

Some quantity      Milk 

• Make the powder by grinding equal quantity of bael seeds, winter cheery and sugar-candy together. Mix one fourth part powder of bitter saffron in it. Take 4 grams this powder followed by hot milk twice a day. Its use provides relief.
• Take a little powder of the pulp of bael’s dry fruits twice a day ends weakness.

28. Offensive smell: Apply the juice of bael leaves over the body to remove offensive smell.

29. Pricking thorn: Tie a packet of bael leaves paste on the affected part; it brings the thorn out by dissolving soon. Beside it, the patient does not suffer from any other disease after its use.  

30. Pain in the liver: Mix 1 gram rock salt in 10 ml juice of bael leaves. Taking this mixture thrice a day provides relief in pain of the liver.

31. Boils and pimples caused by impure blood: Grind the root or wood of bael tree with water and apply it on the boils and pimples caused by contaminated blood. Its use provides relief.

32. Burns:

• Application of the juice of bael’s fresh leaves on the burning affected area provides relief.
• If the patient has been suffering from intensive burning sensation and restlessness during chicken pox, mix sugar-candy in bael juice and give it to the patient to drink. Its use provides relief. Make a hand fan with the leaves of bael tree and fan to the patient. Its use will be beneficial in this disease.

33. Wound, goitre, guineaworms: (Caused by drinking dirty water):

• Grind the leaves of bael tree without water and make a poultice of this paste. Tying this poultice on the wound provides relief.
• Grind the leaves of the bael tree and make poultice from it. Tying this packet on the boils provides quick relief.
• Drink 25 ml juice of bael leaves thrice a day. Its use is beneficial in the treatment of cancer and carbuncle.

34. Fever:

• Make a decoction by boiling bael in water until it remains one eighth and then mix a little honey in it. Taking 20 milliliters this mixture twice a day abates fever.
• Drinking decoction of bael leaves abates fever. Its use reduces dry cough.

• Giving 5 ml juice of bael leaves mixing with honey to the child abates fever.
• Taking 7 milliliters juice of bael leaves provides relief in fever and fever caused by cold. 

35. Diarrhoea: Taking 3 to 6 grams powder of pulp the raw fruit of bael mixing with whey thrice a day provides relief.

36. Puerperal fever (Sutika): Drinking juice of bael’s raw fruits provides relief in puerperal fever.

37. Santat fever: Make a decoction by boiling sespadula leaves (patol), nut grass, purging nut, Helle bore and smilax officinalis (sariva) together. Drinking this decoction abates santat fever.

38. Anyedhu: Make a decoction by boiling the leaves of the bael tree, bark of neem tree, grapes, cassia fistula, triphala and malabar nut together. Mix sugar-candy and honey in this decoction. Drinking this decoction abates Eakakhik fever.

39. Typhoid: Make a decoction by boiling the leaves of bael tree, myrolelans, nut grass, Helle bore, liqourice, chiretta and tinospora together. Drinking this decoction ends cough, anorexia and all types of typhoid.

40. Impotence:

• Extract juice of 20 grams leaves of bael tree and mix 5 grams powder of white cumin-seeds in it. Take this mixture with 10 grams powder of sugar-candy followed by milk. The patient of impotence gets rid of this disease after following this formula.
• Mix a little honey in the juice of bael leaves and apply it on the penis regularly for 40 days. Its use ends impotence.

41. Vatta-Cuffa fever:

• Make a decoction by boiling the pulp of bael, gmelina arborea (kumbher), shyonak, premna seratifolia (arani), sterospermum suaveolens (padhal), country mallow, horse gram, orrisa root and Indian ground sel together. Drinking this decoction provides relief in joints’ pain, trembling of the head and fever caused by Vatta.
• Make a decoction by boiling bael, shyonak, gmelina arborea (kumbher), sterospermum suaveolens (padhal) and premna seratifolia (arani) together. Drinking this decoction regularly abates fever caused by Vatta.
• Boil the leaves of the bael, dry ginger; oval leaved roseway and pipal tree 10 grams each in 50 ml water until it remains half. Then mix a little loaf-sugar or sugar-candy in it. Drinking this preparation provides relief in fever caused by vatta and kapha.
• Make a decoction by boiling equal quantity of bael, sterospermum suaveolens (padhal), gmelina arborea (kumbher), indian trumpet tree, premna seratifolia (arani), wild eggs plant (katreli), caltrop, sarivan, uraria picta (pithvan), pipal, root of pepper, Indian ground sel, costus root, dry ginger, nut grass, chiretta, bamboo manna, indian valerian, country mallow, raisin, persian manna plant and asparagus gonoclodos (shatavari) together. Drinking this decoction abates fever caused by vatta and cures other diseases.

42. Fever caused by fever:

• Make a decoction by boiling the leaves of the bael tree, smilax zeylanica, nut grass, helle bore, catechu, neem, country mallow, Indian gooseberry and wild eggs plant together. Drinking this decoction removes small pox caused by Vatta.
• Take the decoction of root of bael tree or leaves of sespadula (patol) mixing with the juice of sugarcane root. Its use provides relief in small pox caused by bile.
• Grind the leaves of the bael tree, tinospora, nut grass, malabar nut tree, coriander, Arabian manna plant, chiretta, neem, Helle bore and common fumitory together and prepare a decoction by boiling this mixture. Drinking this decoction removes small poxes without suppurating. Suppurated small pox purifies by its use.
• Make a decoction by boiling the leaves of the bael tree, tinospora, nut grass, malabar nut tree, coriander, Arabian manna plant, chiretta, neem tree, Helle bore and common fumitory together. Giving this decoction to the patient removes suppurated small poxes soon.

43. Collapsing fever (Sannipat): Grind bael, shyonak, gmelina arborea (khambhari), sterospermum suaveolens (padhal), ailanthus excelsa (aarlu), sariyvan, uraria picta (pithvan), small wild eggs plant, big wild eggs plant and caltrop together and prepare a decoction by boiling this mixture in water. Mix tinospora in this decoction and drink. Its use provides relief in collapsing fever.

44. Relapsing fever: Drinking the decoction of bark of bael tree’s root twice a day provides relief.

45. Breathing problems or asthma:

• Mix juice of bael leaves, juice of malabar nut’s leaves and mustard oil 6 grams each together. Drinking this mixture regularly for 7 days is beneficial in asthma.
• Take 10 ml juice of the bael leaves or equal amount of juice of malabar nut tree’s bark or powder of 4-5 seeds of beleric myrobolan or 125 grams powder of pipal and powder of big cardamom mixing with honey or 120 milligrams makardhwaj twice a day cures asthma.
• Boil 250 grams seeds of small bael and 125 grams myrobalan in water until it remains only 100 grams then crush it and filter. Mix 1 kg fresh cow ghee in this decoction and boil it again until it remains half then mix rock salt in it. Boil this mixture again until ghee remains only then stores it into a clean and dry pot. Taking its 10 to 20 grams quantity regularly provides good relief in dilute loose motions and asthma.

46. Malaria: Taking 7 milliliters juice of bael leaves twice a day provides relief.

47. Diarrhoea caused by fever: Make a decoction by boiling equal quantity of bael fruit’s pulp, dry ginger, coriander fruit and root of nut grass as well as fruit of Indian valerian together. Taking 14 to 28 milliliters this decoction is beneficial in the fever caused by fever.

48. Cough:

• Dry the pulp of bael fruits in shadow and grind into powder. Mix 50 grams powder of sugar-candy and 10 grams bamboo manna in above 50 grams powder and keep it. Lick this 3 grams powder mixing with honey. Its use provides relief in cough.
• Mix one spoon powder of bael’s pulp, one fourth spoon powder of bamboo manna and 10 grams sugar-candy together. Taking this mixture with lukewarm water provides relief in cough.
• Taking one spoon juice of the bael leaves with honey reduces cough.

49. Influenza: Make a decoction by boiling equal quantity of bael leaves, nut grass, malabar nut tree, dry ginger, coriander and chiretta together. Mix honey in this decoction after cooling. Drinking this decoction provides full relief in influenza.

50. Fourth fever:

• Make a decoction by boiling equal quantity of leaves of bael tree, liqourice root (yeshtimandhu), nut grass, Helle bore and fruit of black myrobalan chebuli (haritiki) together. Taking 14 to 28 milliliters this decoction thrice a day provides relief.
• Mix equal quantity of bael leaves, bark of neem tree, raisin, triphala, malabar nut together and prepare a decoction by boiling this mixture. Take 14 to 28 milliliters this decoction mixing with 5 to 10 grams sugar and honey equal to sugar thrice a day. Its use provides relief.
• Make a decoction by boiling the leaves of bael tree, bark of the neem tree, raisin, triphala, fruit of bitter gourd and holarrhena antidysentrica wall (indrayev) together. Taking 14 to 28 milliliters this decoction mixing with 5 to 10 grams honey thrice a day provides relief.

51. Stomach wound: Prepare a decoction by boiling 50 grams seeds of bael in water. The pain caused by the wounds of the stomach disappears by drinking this decoction.

52. Diseases of gums: Take 50 grams bael syrup mixing with 50 ml milk. Its use reduces the swelling, dryness and ache of the gums.

53. Disorders of the uterus: Grind 20 grams bael seeds with rice water and mix a little sugar in it. Give this mixture to the pregnant woman twice or thrice a day.  Its use stops vomiting, diluet loose motions and abates low fever of the victim. This medicine is also beneficial if the patient has been suffering from exhaustion of the hands and feet and many diseases.

54. Vomiting:

• Make a decoction by boiling the green leaves of bael tree and dry ginger in water. Drink this decoction to stop vomiting and loose motions. Many experienced persons consider that the flowers of bael’s tree are helpful to quench thirst and to stop vomiting and loose motions.
• Soak 3 grams dry flowers of bael tree in 100 ml water for 2 hours and grind them. Mix 20 grams sugar-candy in it after filtering. Drinking this mixture many times a day stops vomiting.

55. Constipation:

• Prepare syrup by mixing water in the pulp of and drink it regularly for some days. Its use gets rid of chronic constipation.
• Take the pulp of bael fruit mixing with jiggery (gur) if you have been suffering from retention of stool.
• Mix black pepper in 7 milliliters juice of bael leaves. Taking this mixture twice a day eliminates stomach gas.
• Mix water according to wish in 20 to 40 grams bael syrup. Drinking this preparation twice or thrice a day is a good medicine for the treatment of chronic constipation. It is also useful in diarrhoea and blood diarrhoea.

56. Stomach gas: Boil 4 leaves of the bael tree and equal number of leaves of night jasmine (harsingar) in one cup of water like tea. Store it in a bottle. Mix black salt in this decoction and drink. Its use eliminates stomach gas.

57. Loose motions:

• Taking 20 grams pulp of the bael fruit and 10 grams jiggery (gur) with water stops loose motions.
• Make fine powder by grinding bael seeds, gum of silk cotton (mochras), woodfordia flouribunda, lodh, kernel of mango stone and Indian atees together. Take 6 grams of this powder by mixing a little sugar-candy with water. Its use stops loose motions.
• Boil the seeds of raw bael in water and mix honey in it. Take this preparation to stop loose motions and diarrhoea.
• Make the powder by grinding equal quantity of bael seeds, catechu and peel of pomegranate together. Giving its little quantity to the child for licking provides relief in loose motions while dentition.
• Grind the seeds of bael with the kernel of mango stone to prepare the powder and store it. Take 3 grams of this powder mixing with sugar candy and honey thrice a day. Its use provides relief in diarrhoea.
• Taking the pulp of bael’s ripe fruit mixing with curd provides relief in loose motions.
• Toast half ripen fruit of bael and make Bhurta. Mix sugar-candy and rose juice in this preparation. Taking this mixture on empty stomach in the morning stops all types of loose motion.
• Grind 10 grams bael seeds with the juice of aniseed and give it to the child to drink. Its use stops green and yellow loose motions.
• Make a decoction by boiling fine powder of bael seeds and linseed leaves together. Drinking this decoction stops loose motions.
• Boil the root of bael tree in water to prepare a decoction. Mix a little sugar candy in this decoction and give to the child to drink. Its use proves very beneficial in amoebic dysentery.
• Mix 5 grams pulp of the bael fruit in a little water and mix a little sugar-candy in it to prepare syrup. Drinking this syrup provides relief in loose motions.
• Make the powder by grinding dry fruits of bael. Taking this powder with whey stops loose motions.
• Make the powder by grinding bael seeds, catechu and sugar-candy 10 grams each together. Taking 4 grams this powder with fresh water twice a day provides relief.
• Make fine powder by grinding equal quantity of dry seeds of bael, aniseed, spogel seeds and sugar together. Take one gram this powder with water thrice a day. Its use provides relief in bascillary dysentery and stomach spasm.

58. Sprue: Take one pinch powder of the bael fruit and equal amount of dry ginger’s powder with jiggery (gur). This medicine is very beneficial in sprue.

59. Pain and swelling caused by injury: Tie a bandage of bael leaves on the injury the affected part to reduce pain and swelling caused by hurt.

60. Morning sickness (Vomiting of a pregnant woman): Taking the powder of bael seeds with rice water stops vomiting of a pregnant woman.

61. Blood amoebic dysentery:

• Taking pulp of bael fruit with curd and jiggery (gur) provides relief.
• Take the pulp of bael’s ripe fruit mixing with whey. Its use provides relief in this disease.
• Taking 25 grams bael seeds with 6 grams jiggery (gur) 4 times a day provides relief in blood amoebic dysentery.
• A ripe fruit of bael is very useful for the patient of chronic dysentery.
• Make pieces of raw bael and toast them on the fire after that separate all seeds from the toasted pulp. Take this pulp mixing with curd. The patient gets benefit by using it.  
• Taking the pulp of bael’s raw fruit and sugar-candy mixing with 2 grams cobra saffron provides relief in blood amoebic dysentery.
• Make a decoction by boiling the pulp of bael fruit, big aniseed and sweet flag together. Drinking 40 to 80 ml this decoction provides relief in pain caused by dysentery. It also prevents the blood with motions.
• Toast raw fruit of bael and store it. Thereafter mix a little sugar in 1 gram pulp of bael fruit and take. Its use is very beneficial in dysentery.
• Take the pulp of the bael fruit and dry ginger powder with whey to get relief in dysentery.

62. Indigestion:

• Drink the syrup of the ripe bael daily in the morning. Its use digests food easily.
• Take the leaves of bael tree with a little rock salt and black pepper ends indigestion.
• Mix 5 grams pulp of bael, 7 seeds of black pepper and 10 seeds of white cardamom as well as little sugar-candy together. Taking this mixture with water cures the disease named indigestion.
• Mix small pepper powder in the decoction of bael tree’s root. Drinking this decoction is ver good remedy in the disease named indigestion.

63. Leucorrhoea:

• Make fine powder by grinding bael seeds, hujuj and cobra saffron 10 grams each together. Taking 5-6 grams this powder with rice water provides relief in leucorrhoea.
• Mix equal quantity of bael pulp, false calumba, extract of Indian berberin, malabar nut, lodging, chiretta, pure bhallatak and water lily with honey. A woman has been suffering from yellow, red, black, blue and white leucorrhoea gets full relief by its use.
• Make the powder by grinding bael seeds, Indian berberry and extract of Indian berberin 10 grams each together. Taking 3 grams of this powder with honey twice a day provides relief.
• Take the leaves of bael tree with honey twice a day makes the menstrual excretion normal.

64. Pain and swelling of the wound: Tie the bandage of bael leaves on the wounds reduces pain and swelling.

65. Dwarfism: Take dordar from a tree and dry it in shadow. Make the powder by grinding this dried dordar. Take 1 to 3 grams of this powder with honey regularly increases the height of the victim of dwarfism.

66. Sun-stroke:

• Drink bael syrup in the summer season. It protects from sun strokes after its use.
• Grind the leaves of bael tree and apply it on the forehead. Its use provides relief in burning sensation of the body.

67. Urticaria: Make a decoction by boiling sespadula (Patol), bark of the neem tree, malabar nut, triphala, Indian bedellium and pipal 4 grams each together. Drinking this decoction regularly provides relief.

68. Obesity: Grind the leaves of bael tree with myrolelans (harad) finely. Apply this preparation in the armpits. Its use provides relief in the disease named obesity.

69. Offensive smell of the body:

• Mix bael leaves juice in conch powder (shell). Apply this mixture on the body. Its use reduces the foul smell of the body.
• Grind the leaves of the bael tree, black eagle wood, cus-cus, pavonia odorata and sandal together. Apply this mixture on the body prevents foul smell of the body.

70. Insomnia: Grind about 10 grams root of bael tree and shuffle it. Take this preparation twice a day. Its use is very beneficial in the disease named insomnia. The patient sinks in sound sleep after its use.

71. Pain:

• Grind the leaves of bael tree, castor leaves and sesame with vinegar. Make a poultice of this paste and foment the affected portion by this poultice after heating it. Its use provides relief in the pain caused by vatta disorder.
• Grind equal quantity of bael root, castor root, lead wort root, dry ginger, asafetida and black salt with water. Cool this mixture and apply it on the stomach. Its use gets rid of pain caused by vatta.

72. Sperm disability: Grind the bark of the bael root with cumin seed and mix ghee in it. Taking this mixture twice a day makes the sperm thick and enhances sperm count.

73. Epistaxis: Mix juice of bael leaves in water and drink. Its use stops bleeding caused by epistaxis.

74. Depression, gloominess and laziness: Grind or shuffle about 10 grams root of bael tree. Taking it twice a day is good remedy in the treatment of laziness, gloominess and insanity.

75. Contraction of the vagina: Mix equal quantity of bael leaves, horse-gram, gall stone and red arsenic together and keep all of them in a copper pot for seven days. After that, boil it in oil. On the eighth day, apply this mixture on the vagina. Its use makes the vagina tight.

76. Urinary problems: Grind 8-10 leaves of bael tree with water to prepare sauce. Mix powder of 4-5 black peppers and 2 spoons honey in this sauce. Taking this mixture provides relief in all the urinary diseases.

77. Allergy: Boil the root of bael tree, trikuta, pipal and lead wort 5 grams each. Boil it in milk. Drinking this light hot milk provides relief.

78. Pulsations of the heart:

• Drinking the decoction of bael root twice a day keeps normal to pulsations of heat. Taking about 100 grams pulp of bael’s ripe fruit with cream daily in the morning provides relief.
• Taking 10 ml juice of bael leaves with pure ghee of cow or buffalo keeps the pulsation of the heart normal.

79. Boil (Boil of head): The swelling of the boil reduces soon by tying a packet of bael leaves and it heals up soon.

80. Cholera: Make a decoction by boiling equal quantity the pulp of bael, dry ginger and nutmeg together. Drinking this decoction provides relief in cholera.

81. Heart problems:

• Drinking the decoction of the bark of bael root keeps the pulsation of the heart normal.
• Mix 10 ml juice of bael leaves, 5 grams pure ghee and 10 grams honey together. Licking this mixture with the help of finger provides relief.

82. Kukunak: (an infantile disease) Mix 7 to 14 milliliters decoction of myrolelans fruit, raisin and fruit of long pepper together. Giving this mixture to mother (who feeds her milk to the baby) twice a day provides relief.

83. Numbness of the body:  Mix equal quantity of bael root, trikuta and lead wort together. Taking this mixture with 500 ml milk ends the numbness of the body.

84. Insanity: Drink the decoction of the bark of bael root. Its use keeps the heart pulsations normal and the victim gets rid of insanity.

85. Anemia: Taking 5 ml juice of bael leaves with the powder of black peppers cures the disease named anemia. Its use enhances digestion power and blood.

86. Swelling of the body:

• Boil the root of bael tree, pipal, lead wort and trikuta about 5 grams each in milk. Drinking this milk removes body swelling soon.
• Take 7 to 14 milliliters juice of bael leaves mixing with 1 gram chilly powder thrice a day removes swelling. 

87. For infantile diseases (Several diseases of the infants):

• Mix sugar and toasted rice (kheel) in the decoction of bael tree’s root. Giving this mixture to the child provides relief in all types of diarrhoea and vomiting soon.
• Mix the pulp of bael, Indian colocynth, pavonia odorata, gum of silk cotton and nut grass. Boil this mixture in goat’s milk. Give this preparation to the child for drinking. Its use provides relief in bascillary dysentery and sprue.
• Give toasted pulp of bael fruit with jiggery (gur) to the child. Its use provides relief in stomachache, constipation and blood diarrhoea of the child.
• Mix 20 grams pulp of bael fruit, 160 ml milk of goat and 640 ml water together. Boil this mixture on low flame until a little milk remains only then mix powder of holarrhena antidysentrica wall (Indrajav), gum of silk cotton (mochras) and sugar in this preparation. Give this mixture to the child patient regularly. Its use provides relief in blood dysentery.
• Mix the pulp of bael’s raw fruit, long pepper and powder of dry ginger together. Giving this mixture with honey to the child to lick provides relief in dysentery along with ache soon. It also eliminates the gas.
• Give the compote of bael fruit or syrup of compote in right quantity to the child. Its use provides relief in bascillary dysentery and blood diarrhoea.
• Grinding equal quantity of bael, nut grass and holarrhena antidysentrica wall, gum of silk cotton, pathani lodh, and flowers of downy grislea together. Give this powder to the child. Its use provides quick relief in dysentery and pain.

Bael Fruit Potential Side Effects and Precautions:

Side Effects

• No common side effects reported with bael fruit use
• If any side effects occur, consult a physician

Precautions

• General precautions should be taken, especially for:
  • Pregnant women
  • Breastfeeding mothers
  • Elderly individuals
  • Children
• Consult an Ayurvedic physician on appropriate bael fruit dosage and form for specific conditions

Interactions With Medications

• More research needed on bael fruit interactions with other drugs
• Take precautions and consult a doctor to ensure safe use of bael fruit with any ongoing treatments
• Do not self-medicate, alter, replace or discontinue any treatments without medical supervision

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Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice. Always consult with a qualified healthcare professional before starting any new herbal treatment.