Saturday, March 8, 2008

TAMARINDUS INDICA | IMALI

TAMARINDUS INDICA (IMALI)TAMARINDUS INDICA

LOCAL NAME :- IMLI


Kingdom:
Plantae
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Fabales
Family:
Fabaceae
Subfamily:
Caesalpinioideae
Tribe:
Detarieae
Genus:
Tamarindus
Species:
T. indica
NATURE:-
This is a large tree.

LEAVES:-Leaves are compound, leafletswehere12-20 pairs, about1.2cm long

FLOWERS:-Flowers in yellowish with reddish streaks, in small erect clusters among the leaves.

FRUITS:-Fruits 5-15 cm long 3-4 cm broad, fleshy, and pendulous, which is brown in colour seeds dark brown and shining.


LOCATION:- these trees occurs almost in central and southern part of India.

MEDICINAL USES OF TAMARINDUS INDICA (IMALI):-
It is useful in fever, as a laxative it is taken singly or in mixture with other purgative drugs. When mixed with other purgative drugs it reduces their laxative property.
The wood of this tree is resistant to insect attacks and is largely used for agriculture instruments it makes good charcoal and is used for gunpowder. Leaves yield a yellow dye. The acid flesh of the fruits is used for cleaning silver and jelly industry, seed powder is used for size certain types of cloth and as wood cement.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Saraka indica | ashoka tree

SARACA INDICA
SARACA INDICA
Kingdom : Plantae
Division : Magnoliophyta
Class : Magnoliopsida
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae
Subfamily : Caesalpinioideae
Tribe : Detarieae
Genus : Saraca
Species : S. asoca

Nature of ashoka tree
This is a small tree.

LEAVES :-Leaves are compound and evergreen which forming dense crown, where leaflets 7-24cm long and slightly leathery.

FLOWERS :-Flowers are bright in orange colour mostly sometimes they are in yellow. Three color is due to there bract, in small dense bunches.

FRUIT :- Fruits 12-20 cm long , flat seed many.

LOCATION :-This tree mostly occurs in central and eastern part in India.

Medicinal uses of ashoka tree

:-Its mostly used as an astringent of excessive menstruation as a uterine sedative. It can be used as a substitute or Ergot in treatment of uterine haemorrhages.

Many fraction isolated from the bark of the tree have been tested for there utility in uterine disorders, but the results were negative.

Flowers pounded and mixed with water are useful in haemorrhagic dysentery. Seeds are reported to be useful in urinary discharges.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

MENTHA SPECIES | pudina

pudina plant


Scientific classification of pudina and Image.
kingdom: plantae

division: magnoliophyta

class: magnoliopsida

order: lamiales

family: lamiaceae

genus: mentha



Local and common name:-Pudina ,Pudinhara ,
This plant is related to the menthe genus and its aromatic herbs.
many more species grows wild; some of there cultivated.
the chief constituent for which these plants are valued are menthol and peppermint oil.
this medicinal plant is an erect branched herb up to about 55 cm high.
leaves up to 6 cm long. flowers small, in small brunches, borne on axile leaves,medicinal seeds are also very useful.
Medicinal uses of pudina plant :- The dried leaves and flowering tops of the plant make the drug peppermint, this drugs use in treatment of vomiting and nausea. bruised leaves are applied in headache and other pains.
the main use of drugs is or extraction for peppermint oil and is largely used in medicine for stomach disorders the oil is also antiseptic at here is several name of (pudina) like koshu ,horsemint

WITHANIA SOMANIFERA | ASHVAGANDHA

WITHANIA SOMANIFERA (ASHVAGANDHA)

Kingdom : Plantae


Subkingdom : Tracheobionta


Division : Magnoliophyta

Class : Magnoliopsida


Subclass : Asteridae
WITHANIA SOMANIFERA (ASHVAGANDHA)

Order : Solanales


Family : Solanaceae


Genus : Withania


Species : W.SOMANIFERA

INDIAN NAME:- ASHVAGANDHA,AMUKKIRAN,GHODA,ASOR..

NATURE :’-its is asmall middle-sized under shrub, to the height of 1.4 m, stem and branches covered with minute star- shaped hairs.

LEAVES : leaves up to 10 cm long, ovate, hairy like branched.

FLOWER :-flowers are pale green, small about 1 cm long, few flower borne, smooth red, enclosed in the inflated and membranous calyx.

MEDICINAL USES:-ASHVAGANDHA IS USEFUL IN CONSUMPTION ND SEXUAL AND RHEUMATION. IT IS DIUTERIC.IT PROMOTES URINATION ACTS AS A NARCOTIC ND REMOVES FUNCTIONAL OBSTRUCTION OF BODY .THE ROOT POWDER IS APPLIED LOCALLY ON ULCERS AND INFLAMMATIONS.

THE ANTIBIOTIC AND ANTIBIOTICAL ACTIVITY OF THE ROOTS AS WELL AS LEAVES HAS RECENTLY BEEN SHOWN EXPERIMENTALLY..

WITHANIA COAGULENSE OCCURS IN NORTH WESTERN INDIA.ITS FRUITS ARE USEFUL IN DIGESTIVE AND LIVER COMPLAINTS.

Ocimum Sanctum Tulsi

OCIMUM SANCTUM (TULSI)
Family and images of Ocimum Sanctum (Tulsi)
Family:-Lamiaceae
Local and common name:-Tulsi
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Lamiales
Family:Lamiaceae
Genus:Ocimum

About Nature:
It’s branched erect herb about 80cm high, and hairy all over.
Leaves:-leaves opposite, about 6cm long, margins entire.
hairy on upper as well as lower surface, dotted with minute glands.
About Flowers :- small, purplish or reddish , in small compact clusters on slender spikes.
Fruits :-Fruits small. Seeds yellowish or reddish.
About Location :- Mostly this plant grows in houses,
gardens and most probably in temples and often found as escape.
Medicinal uses of Tulsi :-this plants seeds and leaves are medicinal.
From leaves oil obtained the property of that oil to destroying bacteria and insects.
the liquid of the leaves useful in bronchitis, digestive complaints,
it is applied locally on ringworm and other skin disease an exotic
east African of this genus namely guarke. It has been cultivated in India in Kashmir.
Utter Pradesh, west Bengal Mysur.
its seeds give internally, relive constipation and piles