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Health Benefits of Tomatoes
Tomatoes are very well known fruits that are cooked as vegetable. They can be eaten raw as salad or cooked. They taste excellent and are of full of nutrition. They are rich in vitamins and minerals....
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Medicinal herb Chitrak(Plumbago Zeylanica)
Plumbago zeylanica is a large perennial shrub, found throughout India in wild state and occasionally cultivated in gardens. This shrub is available in three different coloured flowers (White, red and...
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Medicinal Uses of Amaltas(Cassia Fistula)
Cassia fistula is grown as ornamental tree and is easily identifiable by its beautiful yellow flowers that grow on long pendulous racemes. This tree is native to India. It flowers during hot weather...
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Indian Arrow Root (Curcuma Angustifolia)
Curcuma angustifolia plant is known by many vernacular names such as Tikhur, Thugasheeri, Tvakshira (Hindi, Sanskrit), Indian Arrow root (English), Shotti (West Bengal), haledo (Sikkim), Koova powder...
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Medicinal Uses of Garden Cress (Chandrashoor)
Garden Cress or Water Cress is an annual herb belonging to mustard or cruciferae family. The botanical name of cress is Lepidium sativum. It is cultivated throughout India as a salad plant. Its leaves...
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Ayurvedic Herb Latakaranja (Caesalpinia bonducella)
In Ayurveda Latakaranja refers to plant Caesalpinia bonduc. This plant is an extensive, shrubby, wild, perennial climber. It is distributed throughout tropical parts of India. For medicinal purpose,...
View ArticleGuggulutiktam Kashayam Uses, Ingredients & dosage
Guggulutiktam Kwath/Kashayam/Decoction is polyherbal Ayurvedic formulation referenced from Ashtangahridayam. The principle ingredient in this medicine is Guggulu. Guggulu is a plant based product...
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Health Benefits of Custard Apple
Custard apples are sweet tasty fruit. These heart shaped green fruits contains appreciable amount of vitamin C. Eating one custard apple fulfils the daily allowance of vitamin C. This vitamin is an...
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Kokum(Garcinia Indica) Medicinal Uses
Kokum (Garcinia indica) is an evergreen tree indigenous to India and found in Western Ghats from Konkan southwards and in Goa. It is cultivated in southern districts of Maharashtra and on lower slopes...
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Curcuma Amada (Mango Ginger) Great Medicinal Plant
Mango-ginger looks exactly like common ginger but it has flavour of raw mango. It is the rhizome of plant Curcuma amada and belongs to family Zingiberaceae, genus Curcuma. In Genus Curcuma, there are...
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Medicinal Uses of Garlic
Garlic is used all over world as a condiment and home medicine for centuries. Garlic offers innumerable health benefits as it is good for cardiovascular health, lowers cholesterol and blood sugar...
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Medicinal Plant Sudarshan (Wide-leaved Crinum)
Crinum latifolium is grown as ornamental plant due to its flowers and beautiful appearance. This plant is used for medicinal purpose across many countries. In Asia there are about seventeen species of...
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Saffron Information, Uses and Side-effects
Saffron is obtained from dried style and stigma of reddish-orange flowers of a plant. Kesar or Saffron is the most expensive spice of world as stigmas of about 60, 000 hand collected flowers provide...
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Medicinal Uses of Nagkesar/Mesua
Mesua is a beautiful evergreen large medicinal tree that is used in Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani system of medicine for treatment of variety of diseases. It is grown as ornamental tree in parks and on...
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Health Benefits of Bathua (Chenopodium album)
Chenopodium album is known by many common names such as White goosefoot, pigweed, lambsquaters and Bathua (Hindi), Chandan betu (Bengali), Parupukkirai (Tamil), Pappukura (Telugu) and Katu ayamoddakam...
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Medicinal uses of Dronapushpi (Goma/Thumbai)
Dronapushpi is Sanskrit name of plant Leucas cephalotes. It is a medicinal herb that grows as a weed in India and many South East Asian countries. The folk use of this herb is for treating scorpion...
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Medicinal uses of Climbing Brinjal (Thuthuvalai)
Thuthuvalai or Climbing Brinjal is a medicinal plant commonly available in Southern India. This plant belong to family Solanaceae. Solanaceae is Potato or Nightshade family and some important members...
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Ayurvedic herb Bhallataka (Semecarpus anacardium)
Bhallaataka or Bhallata is Ayurvedic name of medicinal tree Semecarpus anacardium. In India, it is found in Punjab, Assam, Khasi Hills,Madhya Pradesh and Peninsular India. It is a moderate-sized...
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Vetiver/Khus Khus (Vetiveria Zizanioides) Information and Uses
Khus grass is known by many names such as Khas Khas, Khus, Vetiver and Usheer/Usira (Ayurveda). In India, this grass is found throughout the plains, lower hills and on the riverbanks and in rich marshy...
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Medicinal herb Patalgarudi/Broom Creeper/ Jal-jamni (Cocculus Hirsutus)
Patalgaruni, Broom Creeper, Jal jamani are few common names of medicinal herb Cocculus hirsutus. This medicinal plant is used from time immemorial for treatment of various diseases across India, Africa...
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