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A large tree, like the cherry trees you have here, or even larger like an oak, grows in the flat lands of India. The tree itself is very bitter; everything about it is bitter. Its fruits are sweet when ripe, resembling small wild cherries, but the seeds are also very bitter. We extract oil from these seeds. It is a green tree, not pink. We call that neem tree a Neem Nārāyaṇa. Nārāyaṇa is God Viṣṇu. This means the neem tree possesses as many qualities as God Viṣṇu has. Everything from the neem tree has medicinal value. Nowadays, you will find neem in many forms: toothpaste, cream, soap, capsules, and so on. To sit under a neem tree during the daytime is itself a kind of healing process. All who have visited Jadanāśram know we have about one thousand neem trees growing wild. Jadan Ashram is one of the places you can call pollution-free on this spot. We have now begun to harvest organic neem leaves and neem bark. You have neem powder available here. If you have many pimples on your face or body, make a mask from the neem powder. Apply it for one or two hours each day for three days. You will have the most beautiful, natural skin—a natural makeup. You will regain the original colour of your skin. If there is a wound that is very difficult to heal, apply a paste of neem powder or the powder of neem bark to it; within three to four days, it will be completely healed. If you feel an allergy in the body with itching, take a neem bath. In your bathtub, put five tablespoons of neem powder. Generally, every time you bathe, you can put one or two tablespoons of neem powder in your bathwater; it will be very beneficial. Once a week, apply this neem powder in the form of a paste to your head and all your hair. Leave it for one hour and then wash it. Your hair will gain a beautiful colour—not green—and your hair will have life inside it. From the same powder, everyone should drink one or two cups of tea every morning before anything else. For one cup of boiled water, use just a little powder—about a quarter teaspoon for four cups—as it is bitter. Boil the water, add the powder, let it steep for a while, then dilute it. When it is drinkable and warm, you can drink it. You may filter it, but it is not necessary. Many kinds of allergies, especially the summer pollen allergies common in Europe, can be cured if you begin drinking neem tea now. It improves the immune system in the body. It is the greatest prevention against diabetes and helps control diabetes. For people with stomach, digestion, or gastric issues, neem is also a divine blessing. Some people always have a bad smell from the mouth or a bad taste. After drinking neem tea, you will have a pleasant taste in the mouth—a little bitter but also very nice. After a few weeks, you will have a very good taste all the time, and no bad smell will come from the mouth. If you have weak eyesight, it will improve. For people whose hair is falling out, or who have very poor-quality hair and very weak nails, these will become strong. It is one of the best preventions against cancer. Neem has a very significant effect on the purification of the blood. It supports kidney function and helps remove gallbladder stones. So, what does it not do? I have told you only a few benefits, but neem has thousands. If you are in a garden and have little creatures that destroy your flowers, vegetables, and fruits, then take one litre of water and add three tablespoons of neem powder (or for two litres), along with a little tobacco (25 grams). Leave this water for ten days. Then, take a quarter litre of this mixture, mix it with one litre of fresh water, and spray it daily on your plants. Your flowers will be very healthy. In some bathrooms, if the plumbing is not good and water collects, causing a bad smell, put one teaspoon of the powder inside, or boil it into a tea and add it to the hot water. For the best purification and cleaning of your commode or toilet, instead of using chemicals, put one tablespoon of powder inside. Leave it there the whole day while you go to the office, and simply flush it when you return in the evening. It is very effective. In the kitchen, if you have a problem with ants, spray this neem water, and the ants will relocate their residence elsewhere. So, there are many, many things for which neem has good quality. Every one of you should have at least two kilos of neem powder in reserve at home. We have to prune our trees every year, cutting branches from some trees to get fresh, good neem leaves. This serves two purposes. First, we obtain excellent material with medicinal value. Second, we support our ashram in Jaipur, Jadan. This time, we cut big branches from Śrī Devapurījī's tree at the Naukīlāśram, and that powder is, of course, special—though I think it has already disappeared, as we were a big group there and everyone took the leaves, which was very good. People who cannot perform saṅgha prakṣālana should drink neem tea three or four times a day for one week. People who have some allergy should drink neem tea. Therefore, neem is very, very useful for us. You can now get neem capsules in the market and many cosmetic preparations from neem. Ours is first-hand, original, and organic.