Pure Herb and Ayurvedic Herbal

Botanical Name: Cassia fistula

Family Name: Caesulpinaceae

Common Name: Fistula, laburnum, purging fistula, golden shower, amaltas

Part used: Fruits, bark

Habitat: Grows in valleys up to 1200 m in Himalayas

Product offered: Seeds, fruit, pod, fruit pulp


Uses:

Roots are astringent, cooling, purgative, febrifuge and tonic. It is useful in skin diseases, burning sensations and syphilis.  bark is laxative, anthelmintic, emetic, febrifuge, diuretic and depurative. It is useful in boils, leprosy, ringworm affection, colic, dyspepsia, constipation, diabetes, strangury and cardiac problems. Leaves are laxative, anti periodic and depurative. It is useful in skin diseases, burning sensation, dry cough and bronchitis. Fruits are sweet, cooling, purgative, carminative, anti-inflammatory, diuretic and ophthalmic. It is used in flatulence, colic, dysentery, inflammations and intermittent fever. It is also used in cardiac disorders, strangury, opthalmopathy and general debility. Pulp from fruits called "cassia pulp" is a well known laxative. Bark of tree is rich in tannins. Flowers are bitter, acrid, cooling, emollient, purgative and are useful in vitiated condition of pitta, burning sensation, leprosy and skin diseases. It is also useful in cardiac disorders, intermittent fever and general debility.

Botanical Name : Withania Somnifera

Family Name : Solanaceae

Common Name : Withania, Winter Cherry, Indian Winter Cherry, Indian Ginseng, Ashwagandha

Part Used : Roots, Leaves

Habitat : Cultivated throughout drier parts of india

Product offered : Roots


Uses :

• It is tonic, abortifacient, astringent, deobstruent, nervine, aphrodisiac and sedative.
• It is official Indian Pharmacoepeia. It is popularly known as Indian Ginseng. It gives vitality and vigour and helps in building greater endurance.It has been used in diseases such as rheumatism, leprosy and arthritis.
• Used to treat general debility, arthritis, depression, chronic fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, depressed immunity, infertility and memory loss. It increases the iron content in the blood.

Botanical Name psoralea corylifolia l.

Family Name: Fabaceae

Habit: Herb

Used in ayurveda, folk, homeopathy, tibetian, unani and sidha distributionglobally the species is distributed in pakistan, india, srilanka, myanmar (earlier burma), china and arabia. Within india, it is seen along roadsides and waste places of the tropical regions. It is cultivated in several tropical regions of india. Common uses the seed, root and leaves of bakuci is used in the form of powder to treat skin diseases, vitiligo, minor skin diseases, poisoning, for conception, caries, deafness, filaria, wound and as rejuvinative. Kustha anointment with the powder of bakuci mixed with sunthi (zingiber officinale) destroys severe and chronic kustha (bp. Ci. 54. 53) vitiligo decoction of amalaka (phyllanthus emblica) and khadira (acacia catechu) (heart wood) added with bakuci powder should be used regularly keeping on wholesome diet. It alleviates vitiligo .

English Name: Thistles

Botanical Name: Eclipta alba

Hindi: Vidarikand, Sural, Bilaikand, Bharda, Tirra, Bankumra


Description:

Pueraria Tuberosa, commonly known as kudzu, is a climber with woody tuberculated stem. It is a climbing, coiling and trailing vine with large tuberous roots Bhringraj is one of the ayurvedic herbs used as an ayurvedic tonic for treatment of Hair loss, premature greying.It is used for the treatment of devitalized hair.

Uses:

• The herb reduces vata and normalizes kapha, which increases shukra dhatu. This shukra dhatu helps in increasing hard erections, libido and sexual energy
• Bhringraj is used as a rejuvenating medicine in Ayurveda. It is used as a tonic for keeping the body healthy and fit
• It has many uses.Mainly, it is used in hair treatment.It is also used in treatment of skin diseases,eye infections, hyper acidity,anemia.
• It is also used to relieve post delivery uterine pain. Intestinal worms in infants leaves extract should be given with honey.It has anti aging properties
• Kudzu is widely used in skin diseases that cause discoloration.
• It revitalizes the whole body and increases muscle bulk

English Name: Thistles

Botanical Name: Eclipta alba

Hindi: Vidarikand, sural, bilaikand, bharda, tirra, bankumra

Description:

Pueraria tuberosa, commonly known as kudzu, is a climber with woody tuberculated stem. It is a climbing, coiling and trailing vine with large tuberous roots bhringraj is one of the ayurvedic herbs used as an Ayurveda tonic for treatment of hair loss, premature greying. It is used for the treatment of devitalized hair.

Uses:

• The herb reduces vata and normalizes kapha, which increases shukra dhatu. This shukra dhatu helps in increasing hard erections,libido and sexual energy
• Bhringraj is used as a rejuvenating medicine in Ayurveda. It is used as a tonic for keeping the body healthy and fit
• It has many uses. Mainly, it is used in hair treatment. It is also used in treatment of skin diseases, eye infections, hyper acidity, anemia. It is also used to relieve post delivery uterine pain. Intestinal worms in infants leaves extract should be given with honey. It has anti aging properties
• Kudzu is widely used in skin diseases that cause discoloration
• It revitalizes the whole body and increases muscle bulk

Hindi Name: Brahmi

English Name: Brahmi

Botanical Name: Bacopa Monniera

Family Name: Scrophulariaceae

Indian Name: Gotu kala, Herpestis Monnieria, Thyme Leaved Gratiola, Brahmi

Part Used: Whole plant


Description:

Bacopa monniera, is a small, creeping herb with numerous branches, succulent, rooting at the nodes, with numerous prostrate branches, each 10-30 cm long. Brahmi leaves are petiole, oblong, sessile, and fleshy. Flowers are purple in colour axillary, solitary with peduncles. In India and the tropics it grows naturally in wet soil,shallow water, and marshes. The herb can be found at elevations from sea level to altitudes of 4,400 feet, and is easily cultivated if adequate water is available. Flowers and fruit appear in summer and the entire plant is used medicinally.Bacopa monnieri known as Coastal Water hyssop, Brahmi, Thyme-leafed Gratia, Water hyssop. In the folklore of Indian medicine, Brahmi has been used traditionally as brain or nerve tonic. It is a potent nervous tonic and is anti anxiety agent.

Uses:

• Brahmi plant has a number of uses in Ayurveda.It has antioxidant properties. Brahmi is a well-known memory booster
• It improves intellect, consciousness, and mental acuity. Calms the mind and promotes relaxation.It Decreases anxiety, restlessness.Most commonly used to improve mental alertness, and enhance learning
• It is diuretic, cardiac, nerve and tonic. It is reported to improve intellect, treatment of asthma, hoarseness, insanity, epilepsy
• It is a potent nervous tonic and is anti anxiety agent. It is considered good for heart. It helps protect the stomach from ulcer formation
• It is promising blood purifier and useful in diarrhea and fevers

Botanical Name: Sphaeranthus indicus

English Name: East Indian globe thistle

Indian Name: Gorakmundi, mahamundi, mundi, hapus, kottak aranthai, mirangani, ghundi

Khamadrus Part Used: Fruit, root, bark, leaves, flowers

Seeds Family: Asteraceae


Description

An aromatic herb, with purple flower heads. Flowers are credited with alterative, depurative, and tonic properties. The flowers contain albumins, a semi-drying fatty oil, reducing sugars, tannins, mineral matter, a volatile oil, and a glucoside. A spreading aromatic herb with spreading glandular hairy stem and branches with purple or pink flowers. Flowers are credited with alliterative, depurative, and tonic properties. The flowers contain albumins, a semi-drying fatty oil, reducing sugars, tannins, mineral matter, a volatile oil, and a glucoside.


Uses:

• Useful in fever, diabetes, urinary ailments and dermatoses
• It is a blood purifier and stimulant to the heart, hence used in cardiac debility, associated with edema
• The plant is used both, internally as well as externally. The application of the paste of its whole plant externally is beneficial in conditions associated with edema and pain, like arthritis, filariasis, gout and cervical adenopathy. Internally mundi is useful in vast range of diseases. The leaves juice mixed with black pepper powder, is an effective remedy for migraine
• It relieves the blocked phlegm in bronchial asthma, cough and eases the problem
• It is a drug of choice for vata diseases. Mundi is extremely useful in epilepsy, mental debility and as a nerve tonic
• The medicated oil of its roots is salutary as an aphrodisiac. The fresh juice of roots is given along with equal amount of buttermilk in treating tumours

English Name: Suger destroyer, periploca of the the wood

Botanical Name: Gymnema sylvestre

Family Name: Asclepiadaceae

Common Name: Periploca of the woods, gudmar

Part Used: Whole plant, leave


Description:

The leaves and root of measuring is used in the form of powder, paste and decoction to treat inflammation of glands, enlargement of spleen, indigestion, constipation, jaundice, piles, sinusitis, cough, respiratory diseases, feeling of heaviness in head, urinary stone, malarial fevers. A vulnerable species is a slow growing, perennial,medicinal woody climber found in central and peninsular india. It is a potent anti diabetic plant and used in folk, ayurvedic and homoeopathic systems of medicine


Uses:

• The plant is acrid, anti-inflammatory, anodyne, liver tonic,emetic and diuretic. It is useful in hepatosplenomegaly, dyspepsia, constipation, jaundice, halminthiasis, cardiopathy and amenorrhoea
• The fresh leaves when chewed have the remarkable property of paralysing the sense of taste for sweet and bitter substance for some time
• It lowers blood sugar level and is good for the treatment both types of diabetes
• The herb is useful for stimulating the heart, it increases urine secretion
• This plant is also used for controlling obesity in the form of gymnema tea
• Powder of the leaves is used in diabetes

We have for our clients a broad range of Coleus (Coleus Hybrida), which is grown for their colorful foliage. These have garden height of 15-20cm and are suitable for beds as well as pots. The dwarf varieties offered by us have good basal branching, short inter nodes and bright colored leaves.  

Chitrak Roots contains digestion stimulating herbs as : plumbago zeylanica (chitrak). The root of the plant is said to increase the digestive power and promote the appetite. The root has beneficial effects in detoxifying liver.