Touch me not (Mimosa Pudica)

Touch me not (Mimosa Pudica)

Mimosa pudica also called sensitive plant or touch me not is a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity value  the compund leaves fold inward and drop when touched or shaken reopening minutes later. 

Ayurveda regards the touch me not plant to have tiktha kashaya properties. This plant is  used in treating many skin disorders. Thottavadi kashayam made after removing the flowers helps in reliveing various difficulties of the hemorroids. Karappan found in children found in children can be treated by collecting the juice of this herb and heating in coconut oil.

HYDRANGEA

     HYDRANGEA

Hydrangea flowers are produced from early spring to late autumn they grow in flowerheads at the end of the stem. In many species flowerhead contain two types of flowers small fertile flowers in the middle of the flowerhead and large flowers in a ring around the edge of each flowerhead. In the most species of the flowers are white but in some species can be blue , red , pink , light purple or dark purple. 

Guava

GUAVA FLOWER

The term Guava is pera derived from pear. Guava is also called amrood .It is common fruit in Kerala. Guavas are rich in dietary fiber vitamins A and C ,folic acid and the dietary minerals pottasium ,copper and manganese.

Guava 

Guava bud

     

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.