Lantana (Kongini Poovu)

KONGINI FLOWER

                    Lantana flower is common in south india . Kongini is the malayalam name for this flower. Some of the intresting varieties  of Kongini are carols , gold mound , new red , radiation ,samantha , silver mound ,spreading sunset etc..The plant possesses certain medicinal properties also it repels insects and hence used in the preparation of organic insecticides for plant protection in agriculture. The leaves are used to relieve itching against flu , cold , cough , fever and jaundice. Kongini flower producing varying colours like red , purple , yellow , orange , cream and pink ,the flowers usually change in color as they age.

PLANTAIN (ETHAKKA)

Plantain Video

INDIAN GOOSEBERRY

INDIAN GOOSEBERRY (NELLI)

                Indian Gosseberry is a medicinal plant . In malayalam indian gooseberry known as nelli . The tree issmall to ,medium in size 8 to 18 m in height  with a crooked trunk and spreading branches . In traditional indian medicine dried and fresh fruits of the plants are used. All parts of the plant are used in various ayurvedic medicines and herbal preparations including the fruit ,seeds , leaves , root , bark and flowers.In ayurveda amla fruit is sour and astringent in taste with sweet , bitter and pungent.

Beautiful Nelli Plant Video

   

Gods of Ayurveda

GOD'S OF AYURVEDA

Dhanwantary God

Chyavana Maharshi

             Dhanvantary , an avatar of Lord Vishnu is the God of Ayurveda. According to hindhu legends dhanwantary appeared with a pot of amrit , Ayurvedic text , herbs , and a conch in his four arms when the sagar was churned by Devas and Asuras on either sides with mandara mountain as the axis and the great serpent (snake) vasuki  as the rope.

             

                  Ayurveda is described as a divine origin. Many different sources tell about different gods and people about the origin of Ayurveda. There is confusion about Dhanwantary as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu or a group of gods who transcribed the knowledge of life to humankind. A story tells Lord Dhanwantary appeared from the ocean with a pot of divine nectar of immortality, while the gods and demons were churning the ocean of palazhi . This story undermines Dhanwantary as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu, because Lord Vishnu was in the form of a tortoise supporting the mandara Mountain , which was used to churn the ocean.

AYURVEDA

                       Ayurveda or Ayurvedic medicine is a Hindhu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of altenative medicine. The earliest literature on indian medical practise appeared during the Vedic period in India , In Rigved , the oldest known text in written form , where Chyavana maharshi , son of Bhrigu maharshi is mentioned for whom the herbal preparation Chayawanprash was first prepared , 10,000 years ago  in Ashram of Chyavana maharshi on Dhosi Hill in the Vedic state of Brahmavarta in India. The Susruta Samhita and the Charaka Samhita , encyclopedias of medicine complied from various sources from the mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE , are among the foundational and formally complied works of Ayurveda. Over the following centuries , ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various elements. Current practices derived from Ayurvedic medicine are regarded as part of complementary and alternative medicine.