Cotton use as medicinal plant for various disease

Cotton is a small shrub that grows up to 1.5 meters tall Brenches and Brenchlets: Branchlets terete, glabrous, and rarely smooth. The broad cardiac leaflets are divided into 5-7 short bracteoles. The glandular dots are seen in the leaf plane. The large yellow bisexual flowers are 2doreble.
The centre of the flower is purple. The fruit is 2 green, round-shaped crystal In the fruit divided into chambers, there are gray or white seeds in the middle of the stuffing. Cotton Malvaceae is 2 species of botanical plant that is more widely used in the textile industry than in medicine.

According to local botanical sources, five species of Gossypium are found in Sri Lanka, all of which are native to Sri Lanka. However, according to historical sources, when Prince Vijaya arrived in Si Lanka more than two thousand years ago, ‘Kuveni ‘ was carving cotton Does this mean that the history of introducing cotton to Sri Lanka dates back to the Vijaya-Kuveni era? It would be interesting to see if there is something else.


Several sources of medicine mention several types of cotton. There are three categories of real cotton and one type of wild cotton, and another classification of yellow cotton, red and black. They are s2id to be equal in quality.

Cotton use as medicinal plant for various disease

Cotton leaves, roots, flowers, nuts and bones are used to treat airborne diseases, uterine diseases, menstrual problems, urinary bladder, heart disease, pandemic, scorpion poisoning It is said to have cotton pain relievers, planting ulcers, stimulating nerves, bleeding cotton leaves, bones and bladder. In particular, cotton blossoms have been shown to have anti-inflamma2tory and anti-inflammatory properties, while root bark has anti-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory properties


In the case of painful menstruation and arthritis, cotton swabs are treated with scalding or decoction. The first tincture is applied at birth. Urinary tract use of seed spore or leaf form. Pandu gives the cotton flowers to grind and drink with halftones. Cottonseed is used to make a water-resistant capsule used for vomiting that accompanies dysentery. It is said that breast milk develops when the roots of came and cane are mixed with vinegar. When the thoms of men and cattle are pierced, they are tied together with cotton leaves, bullocks, kovaca leaves, pear leaves. Filasu poisons are rubbed with cotton swabs.






In addition to medication, Eastern and Western medicine uses cotton cloth (2s wound suture and bandages) for treating and treating wounds.

Local villagers throw cotton seeds into the well to clean water In particular, cotton seeds are among the materials used in the Sinhala New Year rituals. Also, the people of this country use cottonseeds for various rituals such as Shanthikarma. For eye-bite problems, the cotton swab is sealed into 2 container of water, which is obtained before the crows cry in the morning. It is the experience of the villagers that the watery eyes are visible on the eyes and mouths of young children.