Public Health
Eclipta grows abundantly in the tropics and is used with much success in Ayurvedic medicine.
In India the juice of the leaves is used in the treatment of liver cirrhosis, hepatitis and infective hepatitis.Eclipta alba also shows excellent antifungal activity.
The plant tops are used for skin diseases (inflammation).
A mixture of Eclipta and mineral oil (USP) keeps the hair dark and lustrous; when applied to the scalp it promotes hair growth.
The U.S. spends more per capita on health care for its citizens than any other nation and, its proponents note, the quality is higher, but where area where spending has not helped is the life expectancy of older people - at least when it comes to increases in life expectancy.
In Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries, a new report from the National Research Council, the researchers cite historical heavy smoking as a major reason why lifespans in the U.S. still fall short of those in many other high-income nations - over the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50…
Ipomea mauritiana Jacq.? Family Convolvulaceae
Tuber ( Tuberous root)
Throughout India, in deciduous and evergreen forests and coastal tracts. An extensive perennial climber with tuberous roots, found in Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Assam, Deccan and west coast from Konkan to Kerala, mostly in moist areas, monsoon forests and coastal tracts.
The roots are sweet, sour, acrid, astringent, cooling, emollient, aphrodisiac, galactagogue, rejugenating, diuretic, depurative,stimulatn, appretiser, carminative, stomachic, anthelmintic,espectorant,and tonic.
The drug promotes strenght and…
Paris polyphylla Smith.
Rhizome
Distribution Area It is found throughout Nepal from 1800 to 3000 m, and also in temperate Himalayas at altitudes of 1,500-3,000m. from Simla to Bhutan, and in Lushai and Aka hills.
Common Uses .The Rhizome possesses antihelmintic properties.
The plants of P. polyphylla var. chinensis and var. yunnanensis are credited with sedative and analgesic properties and form one of the constituents of the Chinese medicine `Chonglou'. The rhizome possesses anthelmintic properties; its powder taken with hot water is used as a tonic.
At isn't just people that have gotten fatter as society has converged on the Utopian ideal of enough food for everyone at low cost. Over 20 percent of horses are overweight or obese too. A pilot study carried out by The University of Nottingham's School of Veterinary Medicine and Science and published in Veterinary Record showed that rates of obesity among horses are likely to be just as high as they are among people, a condition that can lead to laminitis and equine metabolic syndrome.
Yes, horses can have metabolic syndrome also.
The study was conducted by third year…
Lilium polyphyllum D. Don
Family Liliaceae
Used Part Tuberous roots.
Western temperate Himalayas upto 3,600 m.
Common Uses . The bulbs are sweet, bitter, refrigerant, galactagogue, expectorant, aphrodisiac, diuretic, antipyretic and tonic. They are useful in agalactia, cough, bronchitis, vitiated conditions of pitta and seminal weakness, strangury, burnings sensation, hyperdepsia, intermittent fevers, haematemesis, rheumatalgia and general debility.
Inflorescence of Sphaeranthus indicus Linn. belonging to family Asteraceae has medicinal properties.
Distribution Area An aromatic herb, found abundantly in damp situations in the plains all over India, ascending to an altitude of c. 1,500 m. in the hills, especially as a weed in the rice-fields.
All parts of the plant find medicinal uses. The drug may consist of the whole plant or only capitula (inflorescences). It is mostly administered in the form of its steam- distillate.
The juice of the plant is styptic and said to be useful in liver and gastric disorders. The…
A U.K. study showed that wetter, cooler summers have a detrimental effect on the milk we drink.
Newcastle researchers found that milk collected during a cooler summer and the following winter had significantly higher saturated fat content and far less beneficial fatty acids than in a warmer year.
One solution, though obviously expensive, is to switch to so-called organic milk. The researchers found that organic supermarket milk showed higher levels of nutritionally beneficial fatty acids compared to less expensive milk regardless of the time of year or weather conditions. …
Persea odorantissima (Nees) Kostem. ( =syn Machilus odorantissima (Nees) Kostem.)
Lauraceae
Bark
Throughout the outer Himalayas and Khashi hills up to an altitude of 2.100 m., chiefly in moist ravines and shady places.
Leaves and flowers of the tree are sweet-scented. Leaves are used for rearing muga silkworms in Assam.
The Asiatic species were previously referred to the genus Machilus Nees, but have recently been brought under Persea by Kostermans. Taking this into consideration M. odoratissima Nees has been equated as the Persea odorantissima (Nees) Kostem and has been…
Cissampelos pareira Linn. var.hirsuta (Buch.-Ham. ex DC.) Forman syn. C.hirsuta Buch.-Ham. ex DC.; C. pareira Linn. var. ß; C. pareira Hook. f. & Thoms.
Menispermaceae
Leaves, twigs
Distribution Area A very variable, lofty, slender, dioecious, perennial climber, commonly distributed throughout tropical and sub-tropical India, ascending up to an altitude of c 2,000 m.
Common Uses . The leaves are eaten as potherb, and reported to be cooling. Crushed and boiled with rice, the leaf is given as a tonic and in heart complaints; fresh juice is applied in eye-diseases. Plant juice…