Action of Taste in Our Body
May 21st, 2008 in Diets
Sweet taste
- Mitigates pitta and vata
- Produces greater strength in the tissues
- Valuable for the aged, wounded, emaciated and children
- University liked, often adhered to the inside of the mouth, and comfort
- Good pleasure, contentment, and comfort
- Good for complexion, hair senses, ojas
- Increase breast milk
- Unties broken parts such as bones
- Prolongs life and helps life activities
- Excess use may produce diseases arising from fat and excess kapha, e.g. obesity, dyspepsia, unconsciousness, diabetes, enlargement of neck glands, or malignant tumors.
Cough
April 21st, 2008 in Alternative medicine, Herbal medicine
Cough is a symptom of several diseases affecting the chest and throat. It may be accompanied by sputum or it may be just a dry cough. It may be acute or chronic. Irritation and pain in the throat, spitting out large quantities of sputum which may be foul smelling; pain in the chest, back and abdomen; fever, loss of appetite, vomiting; difficulty in breathing; spiting of blood and loss of weight; headache, sneezing, giddiness and sleeplessness are symptoms associated with cough.
Peacock Flower
April 18th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Peacock Flower is normally considered to be an ornamental shrub which is planted in gardens and parks for its beautiful red or yellow flowers. Prickles are found scattered on the branches. Each compound leaf bears about 20 to 24 stalkless leaflets. The inflorescence or the cluster of flowers borne on a common stalk have flowers arranged in a pyramidal fashion with the lower flowers bearing longer stalks and the ones above having shorter stalks and this progression is seen till the terminal end. The flat pods normally have in them 6 to 8 seeds.
Indian Pennywort
April 18th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Indian Pennywort is a common creeping herb, rooting at the nodes. The leaves are kidney-shaped, mildly-toothed and palmately nerved. The flowers are in clusters, each bearing three or four small flowers. It grows in gardens in gardens and damp uncultivated areas.
Chrysanthemum
April 17th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Chrysanthemum is an erect, hairy, whitish herb. It is a perennial, aromatic plant which grows to about 60 cm. high. The leaves are sharply toothed, ovate-oblong, with 2 or 3 lobes on each side. Flowers are borne in white, purple or other colored yellow heads. The disc florets are numerous. The fruit is very small, somewhat compressed and grooved. This plant is widely cultivated for ornamental purposes.
Safflower
April 15th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Safflower is an annual shrub. It grows from 2 to 3 feet high, with its glabrous branching stem, bearing oblong, lanceolate leaves with small spiny teeth. The flowers are orange-yellow, in a flower head. The seeds are white, shining, in little shell-form. The seeds yield oil for culinary purposes.
Herbal use
Margosa in Herbal Medicine
April 11th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
The Margosa is a very popular tree which grows to a height of over 20 meters. The compound leaves of the tree are pinnate with 9 to 12 leaflets which are sub-opposite, obliquely-lanceolate and serrate. The white fragrant flowers are found in branched panicles. The green fruit turn bright yellow when ripe and is one seeded.
Celery for Holistic Life
April 9th, 2008 in Herbal medicine
Celery is a biennial, erect, branching, garden herb. The root is fleshy and bulbous. The stem is angular and furrowed. The leaves are opposite, dark-green, incised and coarsely toothed. The flowers are gray-white and arranged into compound umbels. Seeds of the plant are small, ribbed and ovate.