Anacyclus Pyrethrum (Akarkara)

Akarkara is a folk medicine for treating toothache, dental cavities, looseness of teeth, pyorrhea, sore throat, rheumatic pain, facial paralysis, epilepsy, neurasthenia, insanity, flaccidity of tongue, stammering and chronic cough. In Unani, the roots are used as nervine and sex tonic. Chewing of the roots is believed to purge brain of phlegmatic humors which in turn gives relief in pain in the head and teeth.