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Vinca

This Periwinkle herb is scientifically known as Catharanthus roseus from the Apocynaceae family and every plant lover is very well familiar with this beautiful herb. It mainly has two varieties of flowers, Purple and White. While there are many other varieties of flowers found in the family, which are used for ornamental purposes. Only purple and white colored flowered Vinca is used as medicinal herb. The origin of this plant is the United States of America, however it is globally known and is very effective herbal medicine.

Today’s lifestyle of people has resulted in many diseases. To stay free from these, we can take some remedies which will be really effective and give us a permanent cure.


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Flowers and Leaves: Take one medium sized bitter gourd, take one tomato and one cucumber. Wash it with warm water then extract their juices. Take 5-7 flowers of Periwinkle or if you don’t get it’s flower then you can go with 3-4 leaves along with 4-5 Azadirachta indica (Neem) leaves and drink this juice once a day. This juice also helps in curing  Diabetes and kidney related problems. Having this juice will help us in purifying the blood and remove all kinds of toxins from our body. 

Take 15-20 leaves of Periwinkle, leave it for a day, grind these leaves and keep it in a jar. Take this powder with honey and warm water once every day. This will also help us in curing kidney related problems and remove toxins from our body. This will also help in curing acne and pimples on the face.


In the state of Odisha, it’s quite popular, whenever a bee or an insect stings, application of its leaves by crushing it a little will give instant relief on the affected area.


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Roots: In various parts of South Africa, the roots of Periwinkle are used as a very effective herb. However, it is bitter in taste, but really has excellent qualities, which can cure many diseases. 


Take 100 grams of Periwinkle roots, and 400 grams candy sugar or hard sugar and grind it well. Keep this powder in a jar and take this every morning, with an empty stomach. Consumption of these will be very effective in getting rid of the body weakness. 


Take one medium sized root. Boil it with 3-4 leaves of Periwinkle in 2 cups of water. Boil it till you left with one cup of water and consume it everyday in the morning with an empty stomach. This decoction will help you in cutting down our unnecessary fats and purifies our skin. This also helps in minimizing the toxins level from our body and cure Kidney related problems along with diabetes.


If someone is suffering from a pus filled wound then application of these roots, by crushing these, will help in getting rid of the pus and dry out the wound sooner.


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