Nagakesara is botanically known as Measua ferrea. The dried flowers of Measua ferrea are much used as a fragrant adjunct to decoctions and oils. They are regarded as astringent and stomachic and useful in thirst, irritability of the stomach, excessive perspiration etc. A paste of the flowers with the addition of butter and sugar is recommended by most of the later writers, to be taken in bleeding piles. The powdered flowers mixed with old clarified butter, that has been washed a hundred times in water, are said to be an effectual application in burning of the feet. In ancient Ayurvedic literature this plant was recommended for bleeding piles, dysentery and as an antidote to snake venom.

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