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Turmeric Health Benefits, Uses, Dosage and Side-effects
Turmeric is known by many common names such as Haldi, Haridra, Nisha, Gauri and Halud. It is sacred and auspicious in Hindu Dharma and is an important herb used in several rituals from ancient period....
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Mandukaparni Benefits, Uses and Side effects
Centella asiatica is known as Brahma-manduki, Mandukaparni in Sanskrit and Brahmi in Hindi. Nowadays it is commonly known as Gotu Kola. It is a medicinal plant found in marshy places throughout India...
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Talispatra (Abies webbiana) Health benefits
Talispatra is a coniferous medicinal tree found in Himalaya. It is known as Talispatra in Ayurveda, Talispatri in Siddha and Talisapattar in Unani. For therapeutic purpose the leaves of the tree are...
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Medicinal Uses of Kashtadaru (False Ashok)
The Latin name of False Ashok tree is Polyalthia longifolia. In Ayurveda, it is known as Ulkatah and Kashtdaru. It belongs to plant family Annonaceae, the custard apple family of flowering plants...
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Vidarikand (Pueraria tuberosa) Benefits, Uses and Side effects
Vidari / Vidari Kanda and is a rejuvenating drug of Ayurveda. It is mainly used as reproductive tonic that promotes sexual desire, treats nocturnal emission in males and for females, treats menstrual...
View ArticleTagar (Valerian) Uses, Benefits, Dosage and Side effects
Tagar is known as Indian Valerian in English. Its botanical name is Valeriana wallichii. It is indigenous to India and is mainly found in temperate Himalayan regions. The actions and uses of Indian...
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Pushkarmula Medicinal Uses and Side effects
In Ayurveda, Pushkarmul (Inula racemosa) consists of the dried root of plant Inula racemosa. This plant grows in temperate and alpine Western Himalayas. It is also known as Kashmira, as the plant is...
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Revand chini (Indian Rhubarb) Information, Uses and Side-effects
Revand chini, Archu or Indian Rhubarb is a medicinal herb found in Himalaya from Kashmir to Sikkim at high altitude. It is a perennial shrub with rhizomes roots. Indian Rhubarb is known as Amlavetasa...
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Angelica Information, Uses and Side effects
Angelica plant belongs to Genus Angelica and family Apiaceae. Many species of plan have been used traditionally as anti-inflammatory, diuretic, expectorant and diaphoretic, and remedy for colds, flu,...
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Ginkgo biloba Information, Uses, Benefits and Side Effects
Gingko is the most frequently prescribed herbal medicine in Germany and one of the most commonly used over-the-counter herbal preparations in the USA. It promotes good health by protecting all the...
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Vishnukranthi (Evolvulus alsinoides) Information, Benefits and Uses
Evolvulus alsinoides is known as Shankhpushpi, Vishnukarandhi, Vishnukrantha, Vishnu-kranta, Vishukarandi, Sankaholi and Morning-glory. It is a brain tonic, alterative, febrifuge, vermifuge and...
View ArticleRed Kwao Krua(Butea superba) Medicinal Uses Details
Butea superba, is commonly known as Lata Palash, Belia Palash in India and Red Kwao Krua, in Thailand. It is mainly found in Central and Southern India, China, Vietnam, and hills of Thailand. Red Kwao...
View ArticleLeptadenia Reticulata Information, Benefits and Uses
Jivanti(Leptadenia reticulata) is an important medicinal plant used in Ayurveda. The mention of Jivanti is even found in Atharva Veda. Charak and Bhavprakash, describe it as best among leafy...
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Wintergreen (Gaultheria Fragrantissima) Information, Uses and Side effects
Gaultheria Fragrantissima is known by many common names such as Gandhupura (Hindi), Fragrant Wintergreen and Indian Wintergreen (English). It is a fragrant small tree native to India and found in...
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Shalaparni (Desmodium gangeticum) Information, Medicinal Uses and Caution
The medicinal plant Shalparni or Sarivan (Desmodium gangeticum) is extensively used in Ayurveda. It is one of the ten roots of famous anti-inflammatory formulation of Ayurveda, Dashmula. Dashmula is...
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Majuphal (Oak galls) Information, Medicinal Uses and Side-effects
Oak galls / Majuphal or Manjakani are the outgrowth on the tree, Aleppo Oak (Quercus infectoria) native of Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Iran. The excrescences are formed from the attack and deposit of...
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Ringworm Bush (Senna alata) Information, Uses and Caution
Cassia alata is a medicinal plant found growing in open wastelands near watery places. It is native to Southern North America and was introduced in India. It is commonly known as Ringworm Bush,...
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Levant berry (Anamirta cocculus) Information, Uses and Warning
Cocculus indicus, Levant berries (fruits of the plant), Fish poison, Fish berry, Kaka-mari (one that kills crow) are few synonyms of Anamirta cocculus. It is a climber native to India. It belong to...
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Bada Gokhru (Pedalium murex) Information, Properties and Uses
Bada Gokhru, Brihat Gokhru, Large caltrops, Peru-neranji, Kaitu nerinjil are few common names of Pedalium murex. It is a medicinal plant and used in Ayurveda, for treatment of calculi, spermatorrhoea,...
View ArticleKalijiri (Centratherum anthelminticum) Information, Uses and Side-effects
Kalijiri, Ban jira, Vanyajiraka, Somraji, Bitter cumin are few common names of the seeds of a plant, Centratherum anthelminticum. The word anthelminticum in scientific name, clearly suggests the...
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