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NEEM

Neem

Azadirachta indica

MEDICINAL BENEFITS

Multiple parts 

  • Treatment for intestinal worm

  • Applying leaf extract gel to the teeth and gums twice daily for 6 weeks might reduce plaque formation

  • Tonic from stem, root, and fruit is used as a tonic and astringent and is often applied directly to the skin, even applied inside the vagina to be used as a birth control 

Bark

  • Malaria, stomach, and intestinal ulcers, skin diseases, pain, and fever

Root

  • Root bark and fruit are used as a tonic and astringent

Seed

  • Leprosy and intestinal worm, also used as birth control 

Stems

  • Treatment of cough, asthma, urinary, diabetes,

  • Sometimes as a toothbrush

Leaves

  • Treatment of eye disorders

  • Intestinal worm and upset stomach, loss of appetite

  • Skin ulcers

  • Diseases such as cardiovascular, fever, diabetes

  • Gum disease

  • Liver problems

  • Used as a birth control and cause abortions

Flowers

  • Reducing bile, controlling phlegm, treating intestinal worm

Fruit

  • Treatment of Haemorrhoids, intestinal worms, urinary tract disorders

  • Eye disorders

  • Diabetes

  • Wounds

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ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

  • Used as a basic insecticide that helps protect against cabbage, leaf eating caterpillar, coconut mite and many others

  • Used as an organic fertilizer as its higher in nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium than manure 

  • Reduces soil erosion and salinisation, it has been successful in rehabilitation of degraded land 

  • Used as a windbreak

  • Can keep surrounding air clean of impurities 

  • Beneficial to many organisms, honeycombs are established on the neem tree, many species of birds and fruit eating bats also eat from the tree 

  • Its excellent tree for silvopasture system involving production of forage grasses and legumes

OTHER USES

  • Applying neem oil from the root and bark as a cream to the skin seems to protect against some types of mosquitoes

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