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From ancient times, plants and herbs have been used in almost all cultures as a major resource of herbal remedies. The widespread use of herbal remedies and healthcare preparations, as described in ancient texts, and obtained from traditional/folklore practices, has been traced to the incidence of natural products with medicinal properties (Anonymous, 2006).
Medicinal Plants have served as a major source of new pharmaceutical products and inexpensive preparatory materials for the production of some known drugs. Many components with medicinal properties from plants play an important role in…
Giant milkweed is also known as sodom apple, calotrope, French cotton, small crown flower (English), algodón de seda, bomba (Spanish), cotton-france, arbre de soie, and bois canon (French) (Howard 1989, Liogier 1995, Neal 1965, Parrotta 2001).
This plant is a soft-wooded, evergreen, perennial shrub. It has one or a few stems, few branches, and relatively few leaves, mostly concentrated near the growing tip. The bark is corky, furrowed, and light gray. A copious white sap flows whenever stems or leaves are cut. Giant milkweed has a very deep, stout taproot with few or no near-surface lateral…
Family Fabaceae dominates the plant world and consists of a large number of plants which are having Ayurvedic medicinal importance. This family Fabaceae consists of 600 genera with 12000 species and are arranged in three well defined sub families and they are Papilionaceae, Caesalpiniaceae and Mimosaceae. The sub family Papilionaceae consists of 400 genera with 7000 species. The sub family Caesalpiniaceae consists of 56 genera with 650 species. The sub family Mimosaceae consists of 23 genera with 550 species.
A large number of crude drugs are reported in Ayurveda system of medicines…
CASSIA SENNA LINN.
Botanical name :- Cassia senna Linn. Var. senna syn.Cassia acutifolia Delile ; Cassia angustifolia Vahl .
Common name in Hindi :- Bhuikhakhasa , Hindisana .
Common name in English :- Alexandrian, Bombay or Tinnevelly senna .
Common name in Sanskrit :- Bhumiari, Pitapushpi, Swarnamukhi, swarnapatrika.
Common name in Rajasthan :- Senna .
Morphology of the plant
It is a variable, branching, erect shrub, upto 1.8 meters in height. (Plate 5.3 I & II). Leaves pinnate pubescent, leaflets pale green to bluish green, 3 to 9 pairs, lanceolate or elliptic, varying on the same…
Eyes speak volumes but words don’t. Words are words and carry no weight . Look into the eyes and find the solutions. Many a times we go by words but time tells words have no meaning at least of some people . Some people , some nations or some societies keep their promise and as it is said ‘Pran jaye par vachan na jahi ‘Life may go but words should be kept.
Civilized societies are run by promise of words only - by keeping the promise.
However this is global earth and languages differ every 100 km and food and culture differ globally.
One thing which is universal on the earth and does not…
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Since there are more and more unbearable TED talks, it becomes useful to recommend the one or the other, as I am sure many have given up on watching them all, which in the beginning of TED was still possible.
The talk by Nicholas Christakis on social networks actually taught me something new and potentially useful in many scientific or other endeavors:
1) You want to target the most connected (say for advertising, or vaccination to ensure population immunity).
2) However, you do not know who the most connected are.
3) Just take random people and let them refer one of their friends to you…
The biodiversity of the Himalaya province is extraordinarily high. The eastern part of Himalaya embraces the zones of highest biological diversity, with more than 4,000 species of vascular plants per 10,000 km2 area. This is exceptionally high even in the global context. In the larger part of Himalayan province, the vascular plant species is above 3,000 per 10,000 km2 area. (Fig. 1.4)
Nearly 30% of the forest plants are uniquely Himalayan, and are not found anywhere else in the world. These include certain species of Oak, Rhododendron and Pine. About 125 plant species are wild relatives…
Astilbe rivularis Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don,
( Saxifragaceae)
Used Part is Flower
It is met with in temperate Himalayas from Kashmir to
Bhutan up to altitudes of 1,500-2,700 m and in Khasi hills.
Root paste is mixed with honey and taken to control post-
partum diarrhoea and dysentery.
The rhizome is reported to contain bergenin
and three triterpenoid acids, viz. astilbic acid (C30H48O4, m p 219- 23°), ß-peltoboykinolic acid (C30H48O3, m p 227-29°), and acetyl ß- peltoboykinolic acid (C32H50O4, m p 226-28°)
Holarrhena pubescens (Buch.-Ham.) Wall. ex DC. syn. H. antidysenterica (Linn.) ( Apocynaceae) Vern. kurchi
This plant is especially abundant in the sub-Himalayan tract.
The used part is bark. The bark has astringent, antidysenteric, anthelmintic, stomachic, febrifugal and tonic properties. It is used in the treatment of amoebic dysentery and diarrhoea, and is usually administered as extract or decoction. Although slow in action as compared with emetine, it is less toxic and can be administered orally. Kurchi bark is given either alone
or with other astringent…
Parts used are seeds.
An erect annual, herb, cultivated throughout
the plains of India and up to an altitude of 1,800 m.
The seeds heal ulcers, urinary discharges, cure
leprosy,remove "Vata" and "pitta", "kapha" bad for the eyesight, lead to impotancy, used in consumption.; The leaves remove "Vata" and cough and asthma. The roasted seeds are said to be astringent. Fumigation with the smoke is recommended for colds in the head and hysteria and the tinder used to staunch haemorrhages. The seeds are used internally for gonorrhoea and irritation of the genito-urinary system.
The flowers are…