Bael plant/Stone apple/Bilva - Health benefits, application, chemical constituents, side effects and many more

 

 Bael plant/Stone apple/Bilva


According to the historical records, bael is used as a medicinal and food item since 5000 B.C. and known to human beings even when writing the famous Sanskrit epic-poem Ramayana. Bael mentioned in the renowned book Charaka Samhita, a comprehensive compilation of all the essential ayurvedic information, which identified bael as a necessary item in ayurvedic medicine. The tree is aromatic, and all the parts are medicinally important. Fruits, leaves, bark, roots, and seeds are used in ayurvedic medicine systems to treat various ailments. It is extensively described in Indian literature, since Vedic period. It is one among the Dashamoola herbs (Group of ten roots).

It shows antimicrobial, antioxidant, hypoglycemic, astringent, antidiarrheal, antidysenteric, immunomodulatory, antiproliferative, demulcent, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, wound-healing, antidiabetic, insecticidal, and gastroprotective properties.

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Bael is considered as the most sacred or holy plant which is grown by the sides of Hindu temples. This plant is dedicated to Lord Shiva andis also believed that Lord Shiva resides under the Bael tree. Besi...........................read more

Phytochemical constituents

The health promotive and protective effect of bael fruit is accounted by fibers, carotenoids, phenolics, terpenoids, coumarins, flavonoids, and alkaloids.

Bael fruits contain xanthotoxol, imperatorin, alloimperatorin, β-sitosterol, tannins, and alkaloids such as aegeline and marmeline. Tannin was found to increase during ripening, where the highest tannin content was found in fully ripe fruits. Riboflavin, an essential vitamin, is only found in fully ripe fruits. However, the ascorbic acid content decreases significantly with fruit ripening, implying a marked reduction of antioxidant activity with maturation.

Leaves contain alkaloids, mermesinin, rutin, phenylethyl cinnamides, anhydromarmeline and aegelinosides, sterols, and essential oils. Stem barks and roots contain a coumarin as aegelinol. Roots also contain psoralen, xanthotoxin, coumarins, tembamide, mermin, and skimmianine. 

Chemical analysis suggests that Bael contains tannins, skimmianin, essential oils like caryophyllene, cineole, citral, cuminaldehyde, citronella, p-cymene, d-limonene and eugenol, sterols and/or triterpenoids, including lupeol, β & γ-sitosterol, α & β-amyrin, flavonoids like rutinand coumarins, including aegeline, marmesin, umbelliferone marmelosine, marmelin, o-methyl halfordinol, alloimperatorin methyl ether, o-isopentenyl hal...........................read more





Properties and Benefits

Unripe bael fruit

  • Kapha Vatajit – Balances Kapha & Vata.
  • Teekshna (piercing), Snigdha (unctuous, oiliness)
  • Sangrahi – Absorbent
  • Agni Pittakrut – Improves digestion and Pitta
  • Ruksha – Dry
  • Katu, Tikta, Kashaya – Has pungent, bitter and astringent taste
  • Ushna – hot


Young unripe bael fruits

  • Snigdha – Unctuous, oily
  • Ushna – Hot
  • Teekshna – Piercing
  • Pittavardhana – Increases Pitta
  • Deepana – improves digestion


Ripe Bael fruit

  • Durjara – Difficult for digestion,
  • Pooti Maruta – Producer of foul smelling flatus
  • Madhura anurasa – It has sweet after taste
  • Guru (heavy to digest)
  • Vidahi – Causes slight burning sensation
  • Vishtambhakara – Causes constipation
  • Useful in diarrhoea & dysentery
  • Doshakrut – May cause imbalance of Tridosha, especially Vata.
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  • The unripe bilva stimulates the digestive fire, is heavy for digestion, unctuous and acts as absorbent. The ripe bilva fruit has madhura rasa as its secondary taste. it cures all the vitiation of three doshas, Bilva fruit dipped in kanjika helps in stimulating digestive fire, it acts as a cardio tonic, improves taste perception and helps in treating amavata.


Bael root

  • Tridoshaghna – Balances Tridosha
  • Chardighna – Relieves vomiting
  • Madhura – Sweet
  • Laghu – Light to digest
  • Shulaghna – Relieves abdo...........................read more



Uses, Remedies, Benefits and Application 

1) Acharya Charaka also indicates that bilva leaves, used in the form of powder or herbal tea are well tolerated by the body even in higher doses. 


2) Bael fruit is rich in colorants and flavoring agents, which could be used as additives in the food industry.


3) It is used as one of the ingredients of Chyavanprash.


4) Bael root extract with onion, turmeric in equal proportion has been useful in secretion from ears.

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5) Bilva leaves Balance down Vata Dosha.  In the treatment of jaundice, ginger, black pepper and long pepper fruit powders – 1 teaspoon mix is administered along with 15 ml of Bael leaf juice,15 ml of juice of Aragwadha (Cassia fistula), 15 ml Amla juice  15 ml of sugarcane juice and 15 ml of Vidari juice (Pueraria tuberosa).This is administered once or twice a day, on an empty stomach or before food.

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6) The extract prepared by boiling the bark, leaves or roots in water is useful as laxative, febrifuge, and expectorant. The extract is also useful in ophthalmia, deafness, inflammations, catarrh, diabetes, and asthmatic complaints. 


7) An oil prepared with bael root is used in ear diseases.


8) Because of the presence of detergent property, the pulp of the fruit of the Bael plant is used in washing clothes.  


9) In ancient times, bael fruit is also used as binding material for joining stones for construction along with lime, jaggery, zinc, clay, granular soil.

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8) Kaiyadeva Nighantu Oshadhi Varga 19 Its leaves are sangrahi – absorb excess water and useful in Irritable bowel syndrome. It helps to improve the size and shape of feces. 

  • In case of muscle pain due to injury, its leaves are made a paste and applied externally.  How to use bel leaves? In the treatment of headache, its leaves are mixed with lukewarm water, ground and paste is applied over the forehead. 
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  • In conjunctivitis, its paste is applied gently over closed eyelids. 
  • Orally, its fresh juice extract is advised in a dose of 10 ml, once or twice a day, before food, for colic pain and IBS Or its leaf decoction is prepared by boiling 20 grams of leaves in 2 cups of water, boiled and reduced to one cup, filtered and consumed lukewarm. 

9) Massaging Bael leaf powder with coconut oil on the scalp to promote hair growth as it provides nourishment to the hair.

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10) Dried and powdered pulp of bael fruit when taken with cow’s milk helps in the treatment of anemia.

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11) (Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana 16-58,59)Bel leaves are added with water and boiled. Its steam is used for mild fomentation of eyes to relieve conjunctivitis with excess discharge.


12) Root bark may be used as a fish poison and fever treatment, where as bark decoction, leaf extract with honey and bael extract is used in fever, febrifuge as well as in intermittent fever.

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24) The root, leaf and bark decoction of the plant is used to treat intermittent fev...........................read more


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