Piles:

Cure for Chronic Piles: Prepare a decoction (kasayam or rice-kanji by boiling the  roots,  stem and leaves (excluding flowers) of the common “touch-me-not” (Mimosa pudika) thorny climber plant in water or riee kanji and drink this kasaya or kanji once a day for 3 consecutive days. Any kind of piles is reported to be cured by this treatment.

Fissures due to piles  can be cured by applying the paste obtained by rubbing the root of bitter gourd vine against a rough surface or stone with a litter water. Bleeding due to piles can be cured by mixing 10 gms. of black gingely powder  with 5  gms.  of sugar   candy and eating it  daily followed by drinking a little goat’s milk  for a few days.

Bleeding piles can be cured as  follows:  Extract 25 gms. of juice of bitter gourd or its leaves and mix 10-15 gms. of sugar candy and drink first thing in the morning for 7 days.

The  covering of  the  tamarind  seed  (husk) finely powdered and a pinch eaten thrice daily for a week cures bleeding piles.

Bleeding  piles  can be  treated as  follows:  Immediately on  milking the cow, remove the top foam of the milk and quickly mix in lime-juice  and drink  it  with  lightning  speed.

The beneficial effect will be compeletly lost if there is least delay. Continue this  for a few days.  Bleeding will stop within a week.

For the  treatment  of long-standing  bleeding  piles: Slice   an  onion, wash and eat  it mixed with curds or sugar once or twice a day for 7 days. Piles can be  cured by  drinking onion-juice  mixed with ghee or sugar for about a fortnight.

For  the  treatment  of fissures due to  piles,  grind bitter variety of bottle gourd or sponge gourd in  a little vinegar and apply it to the fissures.

Grind together a few leaves of drumstick and Ekka (Calotropis) and apply the paste inside the anus or rectum.  Pain due to piles can be cured by this treatment.

For treatment of all varieties of piles: Take 300 gms. of dried and powdered elephant yam. 50 gms. of pepper powder, mix them together, add old-jaggery water solution and 100 gms. of cow’s milk and heat it well and remove from fire, and when cool prepare tablets of 10 gms. weight each.  Eat one pill a day early in the morning on an empty stomach together with butter-milk or hot water for 30 days.

For the cure of piles-:  Take equal quantities each of garlic,  neem seed,  asafoetida and dry ginger, pound and mix them well and grind them with a little water, form into i inch size tablets dry them in shade and store them.  Take 1-2 tablets morning and evening together with water for a few days.

For the treatment and cure of all kinds of piles: Soak 75 gms. of mung seed (green gram) in water over-night; wash and  e-husk in the morning, grind it along with 21 leaves of neem tree without adding any salt or condiments, form into I-g- inch balls and deep fry them in ghee and eat daily for 21 days. 2   Piles can be cured if you daily eat one gram of powdered Terminalia chebula fruit (Arale; Kadukai; Harde) along with a little old-jaggery moistened with water if necessary (for 21 days).

Daily drinking of the decoction made out of Garike grass (Cynodon dactylon; Kadke; dhub; durva; Kali ghas; Bahama grass) along with a little milk will cure piles. 4  For the cure of piles :  Steam-boil Elephant yam (surana- gadde) and extract about I tbsp. of its juice, add I tbsp. of gingely oil and a pinch of rock-salt,  mix well and strain; drink the strained liquid once a day for 7 days.

The root of bitter gourd can be used externally as a paste in piles.