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Lac
Carteria lacca or Coccus lacca or Tachardia lacca

Vernacular Names
Sanskrit - Laksha Malayalam - Laksha Tamil - Kombarakku (more…)

Tiger

Felis tigris

Vernacular Names:-
English - Tiger
Malayalam - Kaduva
Tamil - Puli

Most of the parts of Tiger are used in Siddha medicines. Skin, flesh, blood, bile, fat, nail, bone, excreta & whiskers are used in medicine.

All the body parts, posess hot potency because of its intense nature, habit of taking flesh and its strength.

The Yoga practitioners usually use the skin of tiger because it produces heat. The heat is very important to raise the serpent power or kundalini shakti. Flesh and blood of tiger are easily digestible and absorbable one. So these are used in Tuberculosis (Ilaipunoi or Kayam) as well as other diseases which cause (more…)