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The seeds have a sweet, flowery, heavy fragrance similar to that of musk. Despite its tropical origin the plant is frost hardy.

Musk mallow oil was once used as a substitute for animal musk; however this use is now mostly discontinued as it can cause photosensitivity.

Brahmi is the small creeping herb with the numerous branches. It grows to a height of 2-3 feet and its branches are 10-35 cm long. It has oval shaped leaves that are 1-2 cm long and 3-8 mm broad. Leaves are formed in pairs along the stems. Small tubular, five petaled flowers are white purple in color. Its stem is soft, succulent, and hairy with the glands. Roots emerge out of the nodules and directly go to the soil. The fruit is oval and sharp at apex.

It is a small tree, growing 4-6 m tall, with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter. The leaves are pinnate, with 11-21 leaflets, each leaflet 2-4 cm long and 1-2 cm broad. They are highly aromatic. The flowers are small white, and fragrant. The small black, shiny berries are edible, but their seeds are poisonous.

Davana is an important annual aromatic herb, much prized in India for its delicate fragrance. The crop is found growing on various types of soils from sandy loam to medium black. However, a rich sandy loam soil which is rich in organic matter and with a good drainage is ideal.

Uses
Davana is used for Cosmetics, Flavouring beverages, confectionery, tobacco and perfumery. Davana sprigs are commonly used in garlands, bouquets and religious offering in most part of the year. The leaves and flowers contain essential oil valued for its exquisite and delicate aroma and is used in high grade perfumes and cosmetics

Indian Pennywort is a small creeping herb with shovel shaped leaves emerging alternately in clusters at the stem nodes. The runners lie along the ground and the inch long leaves with their scalloped edges rise above on long reddish petioles. The insignificant greenish to pinkish white flowers are borne in dense umbels clusters in which all the flower stalks arise from the same point on separate stems in the summer. The seeds are pumpkin shaped nutlets 0.1 - 0.2 in long. In India it is revered as a medicinal herb, and particularly in Manipur the full plant is eaten as food like a leafy vegetable. Indian Pennywort appears to have originated in the wetlands of Asia, China, India, and Malaya were probably within its original range.

Finger millet is especially valuable as it contains the amino acid methionine, which is lacking in the diets of hundreds of millions of the poor who live on starchy staples such as cassava, plantain, polished rice, or maize meal. Finger millet can be ground and cooked into cakes, puddings or porridge. The grain is made into a fermented drink or beer in Nepal and in many parts of Africa. The straw from finger millet is used as animal fodder. It is also used for as a flavoured drink in festivals

Uses
A traditional food plant in Africa, millet has the potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable landcare.

The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy and are often mistaken for trees, but their main or upright stem is actually a pseudostem that grows 6 to 7.6 metres tall, growing from a corm. Each pseudostem can produce a single bunch of bananas. After fruiting, the pseudostem dies.

Uses
A banana contains Vitamin B6, which helps in the synthesis of antibodies in the immune system apart from red blood formation, protein metabolism and functioning of the central nervous system. No other fruit contain more digestible carbohydrates than bananas.

Alphonso Mango pulp is made from select Organic Alphonso mangoes, ripened under controlled atmospheric conditions.

The preparation process includes cutting, destoning, refining and packing. In case of aseptic packing, the pulp is sterilized and packed in aseptic bags. The process ensures that the natural flavor and aroma of the fruit is retained in the final product.

Strawberry is a small plant with a three-leaved growth pattern. It has small, white flowers usually produced during the spring. Its fruit is red and fleshy. Strawberries are found in the North Temperate Zone and also in the high mountains of the southern Western Hemisphere. Strawberries prefer open, sunny areas. They are commonly planted.

Myrobalan Chebulic is a member of Combretaceae plant family. This is a small tree. The leaves are alternate, elliptic oblong in addition, base is rounded. The flowers bloom in April to June in addition, are in terminal spikes. Drupes are ellipsoid. The stone is oblong and bony.

Terminalia bellirica is a tree native to India. It is found in every part of India.

Terminalia bellirica is a tree of Combretaceae Plant family. Synonym - Myrobalanus bellirica. This is a big tree. The leaves are alternate, coriaceous, elliptic obovate. The flowers bloom in March to May. The flowers are pale greenish yellow in color, in axillary spikes. The fruits are grey.

Ashwagandha is mentioned as an important drug in ancient Ayurvedic literature Ashwagandha, one of the most valuable herbs in the Ayurvedic medical system dating back more than 3,000 years. Ashwagandha, also known as Winter Cherry, improves the body-s ability to maintain physical effort and helps the body adapt to various types of stress. Perhaps the most famous Ayurvedic rejuvenative botanical used in many tonics and formulas. Ashwagandha is a rejuvenative that helps maintain proper nourishment of the tissues, particularly muscle and bone, while supporting the proper function of the adrenals and reproductive system.

It is not known for certain, the probability exists that the coffee tree first grew in Kaffa whose modern name is Ethiopia. Together with estimates of when and how coffee was discovered as the brew we know today, it is believed that the people indigenous to the area first chewed the whole fruit as part of their regular daily fare. Imagine the buzz they may have had plus the hefty nutritional dose.

Uses
As a strong anti-oxidant, ferulic acid is effective in neutralizing free radicals which are commonly known to be toxic. Another benefit is directed toward alleviating the effect of stress There has also been a major discovery regarding the human digestive process, during which essential mono-saccarides are released much to the benefit to our immune systems.

Coffee beans are the seeds of fruits that resemble cherries, with a red skin the exocarp when ripe. Beneath the pulp the mesocarp, each surrounded by a parchment-like covering the endocarp, lie two beans, flat sides together. When the fruit is ripe a thin, slimy layer of mucilage surrounds the parchment. Underneath the parchment the beans are covered in another thinner membrane, the silver skin the seed coat. Each cherry generally contains two coffee beans; if there is only one it assumes a rounder shape and is known as a peaberry.

Uses
A hot cuppa coffee can be the perfect solution to all your tiredness and exhaustion. It can help you get the much-required energy, after a hard day at work, and can refresh you for that late night party.

Cassia spice is strongly aromatic, sweet, warm and often sold in place of cinnamon in countries including USA and Canada. Today, this spice is the most preferred cinnamon species from peninsular South East Asia to Central Asia.

Nutmeg or Myristica fragrans is a hard brown seed which has a spice sweet flavor that has many uses. Nutmeg has various health benefits

Sesame seeds are believed to be one of the worlds' first spices. The earliest recorded use of sesame seeds as a spice can be traced to an Assyrian legend, which claimed that the gods drank sesame-based wine before creating the earth. Sesame seeds are still a main spice and food source throughout Asia and parts of Europe and Africa.

Uses
In traditional Chinese medicine, black sesame seeds have sweet and neutral properties, and are associated with the Kidney and Liver meridians.

These tiny white seeds are rich in nutrition, proteins, carbohydrates, Rich source of vitamin B6. Nutty and sweet flavor and aroma Contain fiber and many minerals like calcium, copper, iron, and zinc. These are sesame seeds are available as dried, oval-shaped, flat seed of the herb

Uses
It extensively used as an add-on in cereals, crackers, spreads, drinks, casseroles, granola, oil, confectioneries, sweets, candies, soups, salads, fish and baked goods.

Amla pulp is rich in vitamin C and hence can be used a natural ingredient in other food preparation such as juices, mecinal preparations to enrich vitamin C in the product, ceratain food preparations like chutneys, sauces, syrups can also be prepared.

Black Peppercorn or Piper Nigrum is considered as essential spice in the culinery art throughout the world. Black Peppercorn is crushed and brought to us in the form of pepper. Worldwide it is used as seasoning, or for dressing but it has lots of medicinal values.

Ginger or Zingiber Officinale is widely used fresh named Adrak or dried spice named Sonth. It is widely used as food additive which adds flavor to food. It is famous for culinery use as well as for medicinal properties. Ginger Tea and Benefits of Ginger Tea is wellknown throughout the world.

A deciduous tree native to India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, and Malaysia growing to 30 m in height with thin, spreading branches and tiny greenish yellow flowers in dense clusters. The leaves are pinnate, oblong and small, and appear on branchlets.

Amla is perhaps the single most often mentioned herb in Charak Samhita- Ancient Indian Ayurvedic medicine literature .

The fruit is has the highest content of vitamin C of any natural occurring substances in nature. Amla is most useful treatment of ulcers and hyperacidity.

Amla builds immune system to fight against all kind of viruses like that of Hepatitis, AIDS, Influenza and many others.

The fruit of the almond is not a true nut, but a drupe, which consists of an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed nut inside. Shelling almonds refers to removing the shell to reveal the seed. Almonds are commonly sold shelled, i.e. after the shells are removed, or unshelled, i.e. with the shells still attached. Blanched almonds are shelled almonds that have been treated with hot water to soften the seedcoat, which is then removed to reveal the white embryo.

Uses
Almonds are used in a popular dessert where they are mixed with milk and then served hot. Almonds are the base ingredients of pasanda-style curries. Badam halva is a sweet made from almonds with added coloring. Almond flakes are added to many sweets such as sohan barfi, and are usually visible sticking to the outer surface.

What appears to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped accessory fruit sometimes called a pseudocarp or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower.

The kernel, which is sweet, oily, and nutritious, is much used for food in the tropics after being roasted to destroy the caustic juice. It yields a light-colored oil said to be the equal of olive oil and is utilized in various culinary ways. In the West Indies it is used to flavor wine, particularly Madeira, and is imported into Great Britain for this purpose.

A biennial herb grows up to 30 cm long. Leaves simple, crowded in the base of condensed stem, ovate; flowers 2-3 in long slender spikes; tuberous tap root, is purple in color. Tap root and leaves are used as vegetable.

Uses
Plant pacifies vitiated vata, pitta, urinary retention, anemia, inflammation, liver and spleen diseases, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea and general debility. Beetroots are a good source of folic acid and vitamin C. It also contains small amounts of vitamins B1, B2, B3, and vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene. Rich in calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, and sodium. Also, smaller amounts of iron, zinc, copper, manganese, and selenium. While raw beets are mostly water and carbohydrate, they also contain small amounts of all the amino acids protein

Walnuts are a dry nut, enclosed between two semispherical hard shells joined together, and the fruit has a characteristic butterfly shape that resembles brains. Their white, slightly bitter flesh consists mainly of a blend of vegetable fats, followed by a very respectable amount of protein and a lower amount of carbohydrates.

Uses
Walnuts are heavily used in India. In Jammu, India it is used widely as a prasad to Mother Goddess Vaisnav Devi and, generally, as a dry food in the season of festivals such as Diwali. In some countries immature nuts in their husks are preserved in vinegar.

A coffee bean is the seed of the coffee plant the pit inside the red or purple fruit. Even though they are seeds, they are referred to as 'beans' because of their resemblance. The fruits, coffee cherries or coffee berries, most commonly contain two stones with their flat sides together. In a crop of coffee, a small percentage of cherries contain a single bean, instead of the usual two.

Uses
Coffee is one of the most popular beverages of the present times and comprises of the single most popular use of the coffee beans. A hot cuppa coffee can be the perfect solution to all your tiredness and exhaustion. It can help you get the much-required energy, after a hard day at work, and can refresh you for that late night party. However, apart from this most-popular use, coffee beans can be employed in a number of other cases too.

Curcuma Longa or Turmeric or Haldi is a most essential spice all over the world. In Ayurvedic sciences, health benefits of turmeric are many Turmeric is a natural antiseptic so used as natural healing in cuts, burns and wounds Turmeric for Skin usage is very well known. Antibiotic and Turmeric both are complimentary

Onion is an annual plant which is cultivated for its bulbous root, which is pungent and/or sweet in varying degrees. It is hardly grown as a biennial crop. A sandy, fertile loam is the best soil for growing onions. As a cold weather crop, onion plant needs cool climate to grow their green tops and warm weather to ripen the bulbs. The plant require good drainage and plenty of sunlight. The plant can grow upto two feet in height. It has upright, cylindrical, green leaves attached to the swollen leaf bases that form the bulb below ground.

It is the small seed-like fruit similar to that of the Bishop's Weed plant, egg-shaped and grayish in colour. The plant has a similarity to parsley. Because of their seed-like appearance, the fruit pods are sometimes called ajwain seeds or mistakenly as bishop's weed seeds. Raw ajwain smells almost exactly like thyme because it also contains thymol, but is more aromatic and less subtle in taste, as well as slightly bitter and pungent. It tastes like thyme or caraway, only stronger. Even a small amount of raw ajwain will completely dominate the flavor of a dish.

Wheat is a type of grass grown all over the world for its highly nutritious and useful grain. It is one of the top three most produced crops in the world, along with corn and rice. Wheat has been cultivated for over 10,000 years and probably originates in the Fertile Crescent, along with other staple crops. A wide range of wheat products are made by humans, including most famously flour, which is made from the grain itself.

Uses
Hard wheats contain more protein 11 to 18 percent than soft wheats 8 to 11 percent. Hard wheats also contain more gluten.
Hard Red Winter Wheat and Hard Red Spring Wheat produce a high-grade flour used to make bread, hamburger buns and biscuits.
Soft wheat produces a flour that is desirable for baked goods that have a tender, flaky or crisp texture, like cakes, doughnuts, cookies and crackers.

Celery is widely used as a spice in various cuisines in different parts of the world. Celery seeds contain a compound called 3-N-butyl-phthalide that has been demonstrated to lower blood pressure in rats.

Coconut oil is an edible oil that has been consumed in tropical places for thousands of years. Studies done on native diets high in coconut consumption show that these populations are generally in good health, and don't suffer as much from many of the modern diseases of western nations.

Uses
Coconut oil is commonly used in cooking, especially when frying. In communities where coconut oil is widely used in cooking, the unrefined oil is the one most commonly used. Coconut oil is commonly used to flavor many South Asian curries. It does not create any harmful byproducts when heated.

Cardamom or Elettaria cardamomum comes from seeds inside the husks of a flowering plant which has a strong scent and taste.It is famous as Queen of Spices. Actually it is one of the expensive spice. Cardamom Tea is very well known and acts very refreshing.

Castor Oil is a very pale yellow liquid that is extracted from castor seeds. It is an anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant oil which has been used for centuries for its therapeutic and medicinal benefits. It is believed that most of castor oil's benefits are derived from its high concentration of unsaturated fatty acids. Although it has a strong and rather unpleasant taste, castor oil is used in cosmetics, soaps, textiles, medicines, massage oils and many other everyday products.

Uses
The anti-inflammatory properties of Castor Oil make it an excellent massage oil for relieving arthritic joints, nerve inflammations, and sore muscles. Make a small pad by folding a small piece of unbleached cotton flannelette into 3 or 4 layers. Dip the cotton pad into Castor Oil and place it on to the affected joint or muscle. Cover the pad with a plastic wrap. Place a hot water bottle or heating pad over the plastic wrapped cotton pad. The plastic wrap will prevent the water bottle or heating pad from getting oily. Leave the cotton pad on for 45 minutes to an hour, once per day

The castor is a small annual plant. It ranges from 1 to 7 meters in height. It has well-developed roots, with green and reddish stems which become hollow with age. The fruit is a spherical capsule with small grey seeds with brown spots.

The seeds of the plant contain alkaloid ricinine and toxalbumine ricin. They yield a fixed oil, which is used chiefly for medicinal purposes. Though castor plant or its oil is not a food, yet it is one of the most commonly used oil all over the skin and alleviating swelling and pain.

Uses
A poultice of castor seeds can be applied with gratifying results to gouty and rheumatic swellings. A decoction of the roots of castor plant with carbonate of potash is useful in the treatment of lumbago, rheumatism and sciatica. A paste of the kernel without the embryo, boiled in milk, is also given as a medicine in these conditions.

Honey is a sweet food made by certain insects using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees the genus Apis is the one most commonly referred to and is the type of honey collected by beekeepers and consumed by humans. Honey produced by other bees and insects has distinctly different properties.

Uses
Honey is used for blocks the growth of oral bacteria, coats the throat and reduces throat irritation, is effective when used in the treatment of gastric or peptic stomach ulcers, is effective in the treatment of various wounds and infections because of its antimicrobial antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties, is also considered an antioxidant.This means it allows the blood to circulate better and provide more oxygen to areas of the body such as the brain, can also be used externally to promote healing when applied to wounds, even postoperative wounds, has also been effective in its use to treat burns, contains a variety of sugars and minerals and has been shown to be low in calories and useful as a sweetener for diabetics, people with heart disease or those who are overweight.

Chili plants are both annuals and biennials. They are grown as houseplants and perennials as well as ornamental plants. The plant requires irrigation at regular intervals. These plants are incredibly easy to look after. Chili plants are easy to grow and as long as they receive plenty of moisture and nutrients, are not subjected to cold and receive plenty of sunshine. These plants are available in various varieties and colours, right from small round cherry peppers to long, pencil-shaped cayenne varieties.

Red chilly powder is an indispensable ingredient in most Indian dishes. The color and flavor of red chilly powder depends on the variety of red chillies used to make the powder. chilly powder should be stored in a cool, dry dark place. It remains for more than a year.

Nigella Sativa or Cumin Seed is one of the most popular and typical spices in all over the world. Cumin Seeds has a cooling property so it is very beneficial to take it in summers.

Geranium is a genus of 422 species of flowering annual, biennial, and perennial plants that are commonly known as the cranesbills. It is found throughout the temperate regions of the world and the mountains of the tropics, but mostly in the eastern part of the Mediterranean region. These attractive flowers will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged. Propagation is by semi-ripe cuttings in summer, by seed, or by division in autumn or spring.

Uses
Geranium is used to make Geranium oil, which can be used to help in the treatment of acne, bruises, burns, cuts, dermatitis, eczema, hemorrhoids, lice, as a mosquito repellant, ringworm, ulcers, breast engorgement, edema, poor circulation, sore throat, tonsillitis.

Facts about Cinnamon: Cinnamon or Cinnamomum verum is originally a Cinnamon bark. This cinnamon chips is an essential spice. It is mainly used in Narayan Tel.

Horse gram Macrotyloma uniflorum, Fabaceae is one of the lesser known beans. In India, it is also known as Gahat, Kulath or Kulthi. In Marathi, it is called as Kulith. The whole seeds of horse gram are generally utilized as cattle feed. However, it is consumed as a whole seed, as sprouts, or as whole meal by a large population in rural areas of southern India.

Uses
Horse gram seeds have higher trypsin inhibitor and hemagglutinin activities and polyphenols than moth bean seeds. Dehusking, germination, cooking, and roasting have been shown to produce beneficial effects on nutritional quality of both the legumes. Though both require prolonged cooking, a soak solution[1] has been shown to reduce cooking time and improve protein quality. Moth bean is mostly consumed as dhal or sprouts.

Cloves has a pungent smell which has been used for preparations of herbal remedies due to its analgesic and antiseptic qualities.

Dill seed brown in color. It is oval shaped seed with with one side flat having two ridges. The other side of the dill seed is convex. The convex side has three ridges and three oil channels. The size of the seed is around 5 mm. The leaves and stalks of the dill seed is aromatic. They are used for pickling. The flavor of the seed is slightly bitter which is similar to caraway

Hulled sesame seeds are considered as the most nutritious seeds because of its proteins and valuable minerals. The husk hull of these seeds are removed hence are called as hulled sesame seeds. Prior to hulling process, these sesame seeds are thoroughly cleaned. Hulled sesame seeds are relatively softer and delicious as compared to natural sesame seeds.

Uses
The nutritional qualities of these seeds have rich proteins, Iron, calcium and phosphorous and and other important minerals are absorbed from the seed to the digestion system of a human being. As the skin is removed it makes the seed easily digestible

Guava Pulp is made from select variety of white and pink Guavas, ripened under controlled atmospheric conditions. The preparation process includes washing, cutting, de-stoning, refining and packing. In case of aseptic packing the pulp is sterilized and packed in aseptic bags. The refined pulp is also packed in cans, hermetically sealed and retorted. Frozen pulp is pasteurized and deep-frozen in plate freezers. The process ensures that the natural flavour and aroma of the fruit is retained in the final product.

Rice is normally grown as an annual plant, although in tropical areas it can survive as a perennial and can produce a ratoon crop for up to 30 years. The rice plant can grow to 1–1.8 m tall, occasionally more depending on the variety and soil fertility. The grass has long, slender leaves 50–100 cm long and 2–2.5 cm broad. The small wind-pollinated flowers are produced in a branched arching to pendulous inflorescence 30–50 cm long. The edible seed is a grain caryopsis 5–12 mm long and 2–3 mm thick. In India, rice is cooked in boiling milk and the mixture is then sweetened with jaggery to form payash or kheer.

Black gram originated in India where it has been in cultivation from ancient times and is one of the most highly prized pulses of India. It has also been introduced to other tropical areas mainly by Indian immigrants. It is an erect, sub-erect or trailing, densely hairy annual herb. The tap root produces a branched root system with smooth, rounded nodules. The pods are narrow, cylindrical and up to 6 cm long. The bean is boiled and eaten whole or after splitting into dal; prepared like this it has an unusual mucilaginous texture

Uses
It is very nutritious and is recommended for diabetics, as are other pulses. Though very beneficial in limited quantities excessive intake causes flatulence, which some sources claim can be prevented by adding a little asafoetida, pepper and ginger in the cultinary preparations. .

Nigella sativa is one the most revered medicinal seeds in history. The best seeds come from Egypt where they grow under almost perfect conditions in oases where they are watered until the seed pods form. Black cumin seeds were found in the tomb of Tutankhamun.