The medicinal benefits of Milkweed are many. One of the herbs used in Ayurvedic medicine is Calotropis. Tamil speakers know it as Erukkan, Arukan, and Almiratti. Siddha doctors say that there are 9 types of Calotropis such as white calotropis, blue calotropis, and Rama calotropis. It will grow even in severe drought. Grows on barren, unmaintained lands, fields, and roadsides. Grows for 12 years without rain. It is called milkweed generally.

The Calotropis plant plays a unique role in traditional and grandmother’s medicine.
Plant structure:
It grows to the height of a man and grows densely. Leaves a lot of branches and buds in clusters at the apex. The leaf at the bottom turns yellow and falls off.
There is a milky stream from the tip of the plant to the root of the plant. When any part of the plant breaks, it emerges like milk. When a few drops come out, it stops by itself. The leaves are ovate, 3 cm thick, 10 cm long, and 5 to 6 cm wide.
Medical benefits:
Milk
Calotropis milk is used to treat dandruff, eczema, joint pain, joint inflammation, and hemorrhoids.
In rural areas, when a thorn in the foot breaks, they take milk of calotropis. They apply it to the broken part. The pain will subside and the thorn will come off as soon as the pus comes out.
Shoots like fire. Make a wound if we unknowingly touch our body, Kills worms. Heal toxins. Gives resistance to disease.
Leaf
If there is pain in the heel, heat the brick and put a mature calotropis leaf on it. Keep the heel on the leaf with tolerable heat to cure the pain.
If tumors appear in the body and do not break, place a leaf on the tumor. Catch the leaf in the fire. Make sure to apply tolerable heat. Then, they will break.
Burn the leaves. Sniff its smoke. You will remove mucus from your body. You inhale through your mouth. Asthma and cough will be controlled.
Add a little turmeric with the calotropis leaf extract and distill with mustard oil. Applying this oil on the scalp, rashes, scabies, etc. can provide relief from these skin diseases.
Its leaves, as well as flowers, roots, bark, and oil, are all-powerful in killing toxins.
Buds
The buds are powdered with dry ginger, ajwain, and black salt. These ingredients are mixed with a little water. They are rolled into pea-sized tablets. Take 2 tablets in the morning and 2 tablets in the evening. This helps control indigestion, loss of appetite, flatulence, and bloating.
Flowers
To prevent the body from becoming weak due to cholera, diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea, ., 2 flowers should be put in the mouth and chewed well.
Root
The root can be charred, mixed with lamp oil, and used for outside use. Rub on non-healing wounds such as cockroach bites and allergies to heal quickly.
Cotton
The ancient Tamils used silk cotton pillows and those who could not afford them used pillows made of calotropis cotton.
Curable Diseases
Asthma
White flowers are a cure for asthma. Remove the veins in the flowers. Take only the white petals. Add an equal amount of pepper and cloves. Grind into a smooth paste. Roll the paste into black pepper-size tablets and dry in the shade.
Thus, when having breathing trouble eat a ball and drink water, it will immediately subside.
Snake venom
If a snake bites you, take 5 flower buds right away. Put them in a betel leaf. Chew them well and swallow them to control the venom. Then should go to the doctor and seek treatment.
Scorpion Bite
You can grind the turkey berry size leaf and tie it in the bitten mouth.

Stomach worms
Stomach worms and hookworms in the stomach can cause abdominal pain. Take 5 kg honey with 3 calotropis leave extract drops, and the worms will be expelled.
Rheumatic pain swelling:
Take the required amount of flower and shallow fry it. Put it on the swollen tumors. They will become reduced.
If there are incurable sores, dry the flowers and apply powder on the sores and the sores will heal quickly.
Epilepsy
The locusts are left on the leaves. Take the leaf dry it and keep it powdered. Add 30 g of dried powder. Then, Add 30 g of pepper powder. Add 30 g of pergularia leaf powder. Mix it well. Sniff this powder on the nose to avoid
Epilepsy
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Toothache
Add 100 g of Calotropis flower, 10 g of salt, grind it like a batter, dry it. Then make an ash out of it. Brush it with these ashes will cure all tooth-related issues.
Ear disease
Distill 50 ml of Calotropis leaf extract with 5g each of Acorus, hing, cinnamon, and garlic and filter it. Add this filtered juice drop by drop to cure ear pus, bleeding, pain in the ear.
Sexual disease, leprosy
Add 200 mg of dried flower powder with a little sugar. Take it 2 times daily. This helps cure white spots, sexual diseases, and leprosy.
Excerpt from the Scriptures
In the Atharvana Veda, it is said about the Calotropis plant. It is considered a “sacred plant” because it is associated with Rudra (Shiva). The book “Sivamanjari” mentions that the best flower to worship Shiva in the morning is the Calotropis flower.
Calotropis in literature
Ancient Tamil poet Kapilar spoke 2000 years ago. He said that God would accept a flower, whether good or bad. God would not say no, even if it is a Calotropis flower.