Those traditionalists, who still hold dear the old values believing how a dozen of ailments could be effectively treated at home, without running for doctors and spending huge sums on socalled English medicine. In villages, even today you will come across some octogenarians, toothless men and women, who perhaps never heard of fashionable brush and ever suffered gums problem and tooth pains. Their tooth, one by one, gave way at ripe age, while struggling like young men to crack nuts, chewing bread and enjoying food.
The phrase above is about "Karela aur neem" both are God gifted easily available cheap medicines, if you take them this way. Right now about neem tree, its leaves, branches flowers and fruits. Strangely, city dwellers do not bother about healthful herbs, trees, their leaves and wood that abound their left and right.
But persons resisting temptation to see doctors and get costly medicines, their depending on natural herbs is far too good. It sounds incredible in today's scientifically advanced world, but a neem tree, its lush green feather soft leaves, its juice that flows out if cut with sharp weapons, keep men away from doctors.
Take neem tree for granted when it soothes poor people under its shade, while angry sun is pouring burning rays. Most funny part of the story is that doctors generally feel obliged to prescribe tablets, syrups and injections if a patient seeks them for pains and swelling. But once upon a time, when neem tree soothed peopled sitting under roofy neem shadow, playing, resting, solving some problem etc. The noiseless fans and airconditioners have replaced but not without leaving behind some after effects.
Showing freshly sprouting leaves and liquid created in mouth purifies blood which in turn does away with a number of vexing sensation like itching, loss of hunger and laxity.
The new tender branches used for cleaning teeth is called "Datin or Datwan was used much before brushes became widespread. The Datwan is made best from "babool", neem, pelu, mushroom roots of "Burgal tree. The venders are seen in casual markets. Their number rises rather they spread over even the streets luring people to buy one during Ramazan.
One important role or utility of neem treee is that gives you healthy gum. It is created by stripping the bark from the need tree. Some chew and some swallow others use it in preparation of Halwa again the idea is to mix something healthful.
Neem tree is also used for furniture making and remainder of the wood good fuel. It is a pleasure to be under neem tree which showers zeera like flavoured flowers. Within day flowers turn in green nimkor (Benola) or new fruit before they wear golden colour and its juice gives pleasant taste as well as healing effect.
In Karachi no body bothers falling golden jewellery during summer days and mercilessly trampled under feet. Sometime back a newspaper report said there was row in India when some foreigner wanted to take neem fruit out of India. Now seems all is well and quiet. But in India value of neem fruits has been taken seriously and some use has been found for curing some endemic fever.
Today scientifically built reservoirs are safe but in the past food grains were damaged by insects but neem leaves curb any damage to rice, wheat or like food grains. The costly clothes, warm wears are safe if neem leaves are placed in good quantity in layers. Boiled leaves in clean water are used for anti-septic purposes, bleeding wounds and pulverised leaves are applied for curing wounds quite often, though not very frequently!