Neem leaves are very bitter, but extremely good for cleansing your digestive system.

Mahatma Gandhi used to eat Neem chutney (neem leaves ground with a little salt, chilly

and lemon) daily with his meals

Whenever children had measles or chicken pox, they are given small branches of

Neem to lightly pass on the skin. Neem branches are even put in a vase in the room

of the child, as it is supposed to purify the air. After measles and chicken Pox the

children are bathed with water in which neem leaves are boiled. Boil a cupful of

neem leaves in a large pot filled with water. Then mix this water to a bucketful of

warm water and pour this water on the body of the child as a final rinse and pat dry with a

towel.

Neem leaves are very potent. You should never rub them directly on the skin. The skin can swell.  

Neem oil along with Cynth (an Ayurvedic oil) is now being used in hospitals in India to

prevent bedsores on bedridden patients.  

 My very good friend’s mother had a fall and broke her hip. She underwent surgery

and was in the intensive care for a fortnight due to complications. Though she

recovered, she came home with a bad bedsore. All my friend was told to do was to

dip cotton in neem oil and shove it inside the bedsore. The bedsore was completely

healed within a month and she never got any sore again. All she did was sponge her

mother everyday and apply neem oil on parts of her body that touched the bed and

use an air mattress.  She was bedridden for 4 more years and never got a bedsore

again. That hospital too has started using Cynth oil on even the intensive care patients, now.

My daughter was very allergic to mosquito bites. She would swell up so badly after a bite,

that we had to rush her to the hospital, till I discovered Neem Oil.

After that, the minute she complained of a mosquito bite, I would apply the neem oil

and the bite would disappear within seconds and she never swelled up like before.