What is Aprajita (Butterfly Pea Flower):

Aparajita is a wonderful, little herb that grows in the tropics. It's usually found in the wild and can be found growing on trees or bushes, but it also grows as a perennial. Its leaves are green at first and then turn to bright blue later on in the season.

This wonderful twining plant generously bears quite large flowers which are a beautiful shade of vivid cobalt blue with a white throat. The flowers are presented upside down – the keel petal appears on the top rather than the underside.

Butterfly Pea Flower for Tea - Aprajita Phool (Dried) - Shankhapushpi -Clitoria Ternatea

The flowers are presented upside down – the keel petal appears on the top rather than the underside. It produces slender new annual stems that grow up to 3 metres long from the woody base each year.

Uses:

When you're sick, it's hard to think about anything besides the pain in your throat. But there are ways to make the symptoms of a sore throat feel better without popping painkillers or going to the doctor.

One of the best things you can do is gargle with a decoction of butterfly pea (Clitoria ternatea). This perennial leguminous flowering herb belongs to the Fabaceae family and commonly known as blue pea, butterfly pea, and Darwin pea. This wonderful twining plant generously bears quite large flowers which are a beautiful shade of vivid cobalt blue with a white throat.

Benefits:

We all know that eating white aparajita is good for our health. But did you know that there are some other benefits of this plant as well?

For example, in Pushya Nakshatra, uproot the root of white aparajita plant and tie it around the neck. Apart from this, eat the powder of its root daily with cow's milk or cow's ghee. Due to this, there is a quick benefit in the problem of indigestion, burning in the stomach, etc.

Mix equal parts of barley powder in the paste of white Aparajita and Punarnava root and throttle it well. Now make its wick and dry it. Grinding this wick with water and applying it in the eyes cures all diseases related to the eyes.

Wrap the aparajitha vine around the woman's waist for easy delivery. This makes delivery easier. The labor pain subsides.

Make a powder of half a gram of roasted seeds of Aparajita. Roast this powder on flame or roast 1-2 seeds on fire. Consume it twice a day with goat's milk or ghee. It provides quick relief in ascites (the problem of filling water in the stomach).

How to use butterfly Pea Flower?

Cook 10 grams Aparajita in 500 ml water. Filter it when half of it remains. Gargling with this decoction provides relief in tonsils, sore throat. Gargling with this decoction is useful even if the throat is bad, that is, there is a change in the voice.

Aparajita extracts have natural anti – inflammatory properties which make it very useful for combating any kind of inflammation in the body. It relieves indigestion and helps with malabsorption of food in the intestines.

It is a good natural tonic for the blood. It is also good for improving voice and throat problems.