Other Common Names:
Scientific Name: Gossypium Hirsutum
English Name: Common Cotton
Tamil Name: Parutti / பருத்தி
Hindi Name: karpasi / कार्पासी
Malayalam Name: kaarppaasam / കാര്പ്പാസം
Telugu Name: pratti / ప్రత్తి
Description:
Gossypium Hirsutum is the botanical name of common cotton (Paruthi) that belongs to the Malvaceae family. Common cotton is an annual shrub that grows up to 2 to 6 feet in height. Common cotton grows in warm regions of America, Africa, Egypt, and India. Common cotton helps to prepare Ayurveda, folk, and Unani medicines. Common cotton helps to prepare clothes, bandages, bookbinding, mattresses, etc.
The common names of cotton are Blunt Leaf cotton, Tree cotton, Gossypium herbaceum, Ceylon cotton, Ceylon tree cotton, Cotton tree, Indian cotton tree, Auduga, common cottongrass, bog cotton, common cotton sedge, Red-flowered cotton tree, Karpasa, upland cotton, Mexican cotton, Tree cotton, Ewe-owu, and Asiatic cotton.
Health Benefits of Cotton Tree:
- Cotton leaves help to treat skin-related problems such as skin rashes, pimples, eczema, acne, and boils.
- Cotton leaves contain anti-inflammatory properties that help to reduce inflammation in wounds.
- Cotton leaves help to treat respiratory diseases such as cough, bronchitis, asthma, and throat infections.
- Cottonseed helps to get rid of mouth odor, gum problems, and bacteria in teeth.
- Cotton tree leaf is the best herbal medicine to treat gallstones and kidney stones.
- Cotton blossom extract helps to cure pus in the ears.
- Cotton leaves help to treat headaches, vomiting, and insomnia.
- Cotton root juice can help to treat fever.
Dosage of Common Cotton:
For Internal Use:
- Take 35ml of cotton leaf juice and mix it with 300 ml of milk. Consume this mixture once a day to treat Leucorrhoea.
For External Use:
- Take a required amount of cotton leaves and boil it with the buttermilk. Later dip the cotton bandage in the mixture and place it on the eyes. It helps to get relief from eye pains.
- Take a required amount of cotton flower and grind it to make a paste. Apply the paste to the affected area. It helps to heal and remove burned skin marks.











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