SIRIS TREE PROPERTIES AND BENEFITS

Family name
Mimosaceae
Latin
Albizzia lebbek Benth
English
Siris tree
Sanskrit
Sirish, BhariDal, Mridu
Pushpa, Shuka priya
Hindi
Siris, siras
Gujarati
Kaliyo, Sassa, SarasDo
Marati
Siras
Punjabi
Sarieh, Shiri, Siras
Telugu
Dirisenamu
Arabi
Sultanul-Ashjar
Farasi
Darakhtejakriya
Acharya Balakrishna
Chemical
composition:
Siris bark contains
Soponin and
tannin and resinous
substances.

Siris tree is found upto 8000 feet
height everywhere in India.
It is seen both in wild fields and also in
forming. Many kinds of Siris species
like red, white and black are available.
Some species are very short and some
very tall. This is a deciduous and
shady tree.
Physical characteristics:
A Medium-sized unarmed tree, widely
extended branches on all sides, outer
trunk appears in brown granular rupture,
and at an external level, branches are
outermost part is splits and separates
in long segments. Inner bark is red
coloured, hard and rough and the center
is white-coloured. Like tamarind Leaves,
Siris leaves are double-sided, abruptly
bipinnate, however these are larger
ones. Non-stalked flowers, flowers are
mimosa-like, in showy, rounded clusters
near stem tips, cream , yellowish-white,
fragrant and funnel shaped heads, tender,
pods are flat , 4-12 inches long, thin, have
6-12 seeds. Flowers in rainy season and
fruit appears in Autumn period of time
and these remain attached to the tree till
the end.
MEDICINAL USE
fainting fit
Take equal quantity of Siris seeds and
black pepper, and grind this with goat’s
urine and apply on eyes as liner to cure
delirium.
Insanity
Take equal amounts of siris seeds,
sultanas, asafetida, garlic, dry ginger,
orris root, and Koot, and mix everything
in goat’s urine to make a paste. Apply as a eye liner to cure madness.
Take seeds of Siris and Karanj and
grind them into a paste. Apply to get
relief from madness, amnesia and eye
disease.
Eye disorder
Apply the juice of the leaves to get
relief from eye pain.
Intake of decoction of its leaves during
night-blind-ness and application of the
juice as eye liner will provide relief.
Soak a cloth in the juice of its leaves
and dry it. Soak and dry it three times.
Then burn this cloth like a lamp with
jasmine oil and prepare eye liner. This
liner will increase the power of eyes.
Ear ache
Heat the juice of Siris leaves and
Mango leaves till lukewarm and apply
as ear drops to get relief from ear
ache.
Teeth ailments
Make a decoction of Siris juice and
massaging it over the teeth and gums
will provide relief in painful gums and
make teeth strong. Grind the kernel
of Siris seeds and black pepper and
massage to get relief from toothache.
Goitre
1. Grind 6gm Siris seeds and take a
little bit each morning to get relief
from inflammation of goiter.
Grinding the seeds and applying
it as a paste over affected area
will also provide relief in goitre.
2. In one part of Siris seed powder,
add two parts of honey and place
it in a ‘Cori’ vessal and close
it properly. Let it remain for
two weeks in the sun. After two weeks, take it out and use up to 10gm
each day in the morning and evening.
Cough
Fry yellow siris leaves in ghee and take
three times a day to get relief from cough.
Diarrhoea
Taking small quantities of the powder
of its seeds three times a day will cure
diarrhoea.
Dropsy
Inflammation of dropsy is cured by the
intake of a decoction of siris bark.
Syphilis
Mix the ash of the leaves with ghee or oil
and apply to cure syphilis.

Inflammation of the scrotum
Grind the bark and apply as a paste to cure the
inflammation.
URINE DISORDER
Make a paste of 10gm of Siris leaves and strain.
Add misri and drink this in the morning and
evening. Take the oil of siris seeds and mix with
milk and have it.
PILES
1. Grind 6gm siris seeds and 3gm Colliery
roots and apply as a paste to cure piles.
2. Apply is oil as a poultice.
3. Take equal amounts of siris seeds, Koot,
milk of Aak, Peepal and rock salt and grind
them into a fine mixture. This paste will
immediately provide relief.
4. Take equal amounts of Colliery roots, Danti
roots, and Chit and grind them into a fine
mixture. Apply this to get relief.
5. Take equal quantities of cock’s droppings,
liquorice, turmeric, Sacred fig (peepal) and
mix them with water and grind finely and
apply it on piles. This method works well on
piles.
SKIN AILMENTS
1. Application of sisham oil in leprosy, etc.
skin diseases prove valuable.
2. Apply the thin paste of white sisir as a lotion
on wounds, rash and other skin ailments to
get necessary benefits.
3. Tie the leaves as a poultice over wounds,
sores and boils to get relief.
4. Its flowers are cooling. Apply their paste on
boils and sores that appear during summer.
5. Siris seeds are useful in dissolving tumours
and swellings on the body.

ABSCESS
Washing regularly with the juice of siris bark and applying the ash of its leaves as an
ointment cures abscess.
TO OPEN ABSCESS
Mix Siris bark, Rasanjan and Harad
powder with vinegar or honey and apply
to get benefit Apply the poultice of its
leaves over any kind of sores for half an
hour and then change in the case of sores
under the skin, no matter however it is.
This will bring the boils to the surface
and then burst them.
BOILS
Grind the bark of siris, Nagar, Jatamashi,
turmeric and lotus in equal quantities
with cold water. Apply as a paste to cure
the boils.
ANTIDOTE
Make a powder of Siris bark, seeds and
flowers and take this with cow’s urine
for three times to remove all kinds of
toxic substances from the body.
Grind the siris roots, bark, leaves, flowers
and seeds in cow’s urine and apply as
paste to destroy all kinds of poison.
FROG POISON
Grind the seeds of siris with the milk of
Thuhar and apply as a paste to remove
the poison of frog.
INSECT BITE
Grind its flowers and apply as a paste
over the bite of poisonous insects.
STRENGTH GIVING
POTION
Take 1gm of the churna of siris bark with
up to 3gm ghee and take this everyday
in the morning and evening. This is
an excellent strength giver and blood
purifier.
VIRILITY INCREASING TONIC
Take 2gm of the churna of its seeds ,
twice that of hone and have this with
warm milk every evening to increase
virility in men.
LEPROSY
Grind 15gm siris leaves and 2 gm black
pepper and drink this for 40 days to cure
leprosy.