Description : Kutki is a small herb with spoon-shaped, 5-15 cm long leaves, almost all at the base. Leaves are coarsely toothed, narrowed to a winged stalk. Rhizomes of the plant are 15-25 cm long and woody. Kutaki, Piccorrhiza kurroa removes both Kapha and Pitta (when these are in excess) from the body and purifies […]
Description : Indian Fumitory is a delicate much-branched annual herb with clusters of tiny pale-pinkish to whitish flowers, each 5-6 mm long. Sepals are minute. Upper petal has short, somewhat down-curved sac-like spur. Flower-stalks are erect, as long or slightly shorter than the laceshaped bracts. […]
Description : This is a suffruiticose, eract herb with a height of about 2 meters, clothedwith white pubescnce. The eaves are about 5 cms. long, the leaflets areovate-oblong or ovate elliptic. The flowers are pale yellow or tingedred, in terminals and leaf opposed in long racemes. The pods are linearlanceolate, dark brown and glabrascent. The […]
Description : Marsh Orchid is a medicinal herb which is now considered critically endangered. It is a perennial herb with erect, leafy, stout and hollow stem. Leaves are oblong-lance-shaped, with sheathing base. Pink purple flowers are borne in an upright spike. Flowers are purple and the bracts green, narrowly lance-shaped, lower longer than the flowers, […]
Description : The tree is used in rest of the world for its hard wood. In India, it is also used to make garlands from its fragrant flowers. It finds use in many Ayurvedic products. especially those for oral health. Lord Krishna is said to have played his flute under Bakul trees attracting young women. […]
Description : Goolar is an attractive fig tree witha crooked trumk and a spreading crown. Unlike the banyan, it has no aerial roots. The most distinctive aspect of this tree is the red, furry figs in short clusters, which grow directly out of the trunk of the tree. Those looking for the flower of goolar […]
Description : Chicory is a Mediterranean herb that has been used as a coffee filler or substitute. It contains no caffeine and has a chocolate-like flavor. Added to coffee, Chicory root counteracts the effects of caffeine and helps digestion. The flower heads are 2 to 4 centimetres (0.79 to 1.6 in) wide, and bright blue. […]
Description : Althea officinalis, not the white puffy confection roasted over a campfire — has been used for more than 2,000 years as both a food and a medicine. The Romans, Chinese, Egyptians, and Syrians used marshmallow as a source of food, while the Arabs made poultices from its leaves and applied them to the […]
Description : Abuta is a tropical woody, climbing vine (liana) with long leaves, white flowers and inedible dark, grape sized, 3/4″ long, berries. It is indigenous to the Amazon rainforest but also grows abundantly in India. It resembles a ruffled ribbon, winding its way up to the top of the tree. The stem is […]
Description : Atibala consists of root of Abutilon indicum. It is a hairy herb or under-shrub 1.0-1.5m high. It is an annual or more often perennial with golden yellow flowers, flowering mostly throughout the year found abundantly throughout the hotter parts of India. It is also found as a common weed on roadsides and other […]