Hirabol (or)Bol (or) Myrrh (or) Vellaippa polam

Description

Sans-Viola; Rasagandha; Saindhava; Samudraguggul, Eng- Myrrh, Hind, & Pers- Bol, Ben- Gandharash, Can- Bola, Sinh- Bolam, Arab- Murr, Mah, & Cutch- Hirabol, Bom- Bhensa Bol, Duk,& Guj- Bol, Tam- Vellaippa- Polam, Tel- Balintrapolum.

Uses:

It improves the appetite, digestion strength. It is also used to treat leucorrhea and heavy periods. It is used in treating fever and epilepsy. Hemorrhoids and skin diseases are treated using Hirabol.  Powder of myrhh and rhubarb with five grains of ipomaea hederacea is a good stomatic and laxative.   It is used as stimulating expectorant in chest affections ,especially in chronic bronchitis , asthma and phthisis. Externally it is used as astringent, stimulating application in ulcerated conditions and a gargle for spong gums and in ulcerated sorethroat.