Sorrel for Heart Disease

Sorrel is one of the herbs traditionally used in Ayurveda for heart disease. Leaves fever, inflammations, pain, appe-tite, scurvy, digestion, dyspepsia, intoxication,poisoning, difficult urination, bilious headaches, removes fibers over cornea or opacities of the cornea; Leaves boiled in yogurt/water ( lassi), or mixed with honey or cane sugar for chronic dysentery,rectum prolapse, thirst and enteritis (small intes-tine inflammation), hemorrhoids; as a soup for convalescence from diarrhea. Juice made intosherbet with honey or cane sugar for dysentery,rectum prolapse, thirst. Externally removes warts, The Ayurveda Encyclopedia 82corns, etc.; applied locally as a poultice to inflamed areas and pain. Leaf juice with pepper and ghee are applied externally to red spots or other skin eruptions due to bile, removes warts. Mixed with onions and applied to the head for bilious head-aches.