Description: Sweet Indrajao is a small, deciduous tree with a light gray, scaly smooth bark. Native to India and Burma, Wrightia is named after a Scottish physician and botanist William Wright (1740 – 1827). From a distance, the white flowers may appear like snow flakes on a tree. The fruits pendulous, long paired follicles joined […]
Description: It is a moderate or large deciduous tree, attaining 25-30 m in height. Leaf buds, branches and youngest leaves are covered with soft, shining rust coloured hairs. Leaves 7-20 cm,glabrous, opposite, elliptic-oblong, rounded,acute apex. Flowers bisexual, white or yellow with an offensive smell. Fruit is a drupe, pendulous, 2-4 cm long, obovoid from a […]
Description: Gudmar was initially known as meshashringi in Sanskrit, which means “ram’s horn”. The plant can be described as a large, pubescent, woody climber. its leaves are elliptic, opposite or ovate. The small flowers are yellow and in umbellate cymes. The follicles are terete, lanceolate and up to 3 inches in length. The plant is […]
Description : Guggul is alterative, analgesic, anticholesterolemic, antiinflammatory, antiobesity, antioxidant, antiseptic, antispasmodic, aperient, astringent, carminative, demulcent, deobstruent, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, expectorant, nervine, rejuvenative and stimulant. It is a very effective herbal medicine for controlling obesity and cholesterol. Ketone fraction that is extracted from the oleo-gum-resin contains the most potent cholesterol lowering components. The extract isolates ketonic steroid […]
Description: An aromatic herb, with purple flower heads. Flowers are credited with alterative, depurative, and tonic properties. the flowers contain albumins, a semi-drying fatty oil, reducing sugars, tannins, mineral matter, a volatile oil, and a glucoside. A spreading aromatic herb with spreading glandular hairy stem and branches with purple or pink flowers. Flowers are credited […]
Description: Gokharu (Tribulus terrestris) is found in tropical climates of the world. It is found mainly in India, America, and Australia. Pedalium murex is native to India. In Ayurveda Tribulus terrestris is known as Chhote or Kanti Gokharu and Pedalium murex as Boda Gokharu. Medicinal uses are more or less same for both the varieties. […]
Description : A large, woody climber, up to 15 m in height. Bark black, branchlets glossy, black, more or less armed with recurved prickles; leaves large, bipinnate, armed with recurved prickles at the base of pinnae; pinnae 2-5 pairs, often armed; leaflets 2-3 pairs, coriaceous, acute or obtuse, ovate or elliptic, upper surface shining, lower […]
Description: The marking nut tree, occurs in the wild in the sub-himalayan tract, up to 3,500 ft. , in assam, khasi hills, madhya pradesh;, gujarat, konkan, and the deciduous forests of the southern states of india. It is similar to the cashew nut tree, in having an edible false fruit that is orange and fleshy. […]