The health benefits of figs come from the presence of minerals, vitamins, and fiber contained in the fruit. Figs contain a wealth of beneficial nutrients, including vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, calcium, iron, phosphorus, manganese, sodium, potassium etc.
Kottai karantai is a plant which grows to a height of 2- feet and is found in the paddy fields and in places of moist soil all over India. The Leaves are having hairy growth. The flower bunch resembles that of Neolamarckia cadamba and blooms in the winter season.
Mango tree is evergreen and erect growing up to 20-45 mt in height with oval, upright, dome shaped crown and stout trunk. Mango tree is long lived, known to be 250-300 years with fruits. Leaves of this tree are linear – oblong, lanceolate – elliptical, pointed from both sides and arranged on branches in spiral pattern and have soothing aroma.
Quick Overview:Murungai called as Moringa Oleifera in English is a small size tree with approximately 5 to 10 m height. It is cultivated all over the world due to its multiple utilities. Every part of Moringa is used for certain nutritional and/or medicinal propose.
Nannari – Sarsaparilla is a plant of the Smilax species. Sarsaparilla is a woody vine that produces small flowers and either red, black, or blue berry like fruit. Sarsaparilla fruit was once used to make popular sarsaparilla soft drinks, which has a taste similar to root beer. Sarsaparilla has also been used by herbalists in traditional medicine for hundreds of years because of its medicinal properties. Herbalists have used sarsaparilla’s anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and toxin binding properties to purify the blood and treat skin conditions.
The Marsh Barbel is native to the Indian subcontinent, including Nepal and Sri Lanka.It also called Temple Plant in english. It is a member of the Acanthaceae family and as the name suggests, likes to live in wet places. It can grow to 2 metres high or more, and has blue-purple flowers, with upper and lower “lips”.
Black Musli (Curculigo orchioides) is a herb that belongs to the family Hypoxidaceae. It is a native of temperate regions such as Chota-Nagapur plateau and Deccan plateau in India. Black Musli is bitter-sweet to taste with a peculiarly sweet after-taste that remains even after digestion.
Nilavembu also called king of bitters in English. Nila means soil and vembu means neem, the name exactly means a herb that grows close to the soil that is as sour as neem, nilavembu is very very tart, presently like neem. Andrographis paniculata is erect plant with height of 30–110 cm.
Orithal thamarai is a well known herb in Tamil Nadu known for its amazing ability to improve testosterone in men. Thamarai in Tamil means lotus and orithal in Tamil means single leaf, together it means single leafed lotus. Though it is called thamarai, this beautiful flower is opposite to our regular lotus in size, it is very tiny and fragile.
Alum is colorless in crystal form and it is 100 % pure alum block will be completely translucent. Alum is easily soluble in water and when heated it becomes porous.Alum has astringent, antiseptic, antihemorrhagic, and antibacterial properties making it very effective for treating many skin problems.
Sweet basil, with its wonderful aroma and flavor, is one of the most popular and widely grown herbs in the world. Basil is an annual herb to 2-3 ft tall with green stems (usually woody at the base) that are square in cross section. Basil has opposite leaves, 5.1-10.2 cm long, oval and slightly toothed.
Quick Overview:Seenthil Kodi- Botanical name is Tinospora cordifolia is a important medicinal plant commonly called Heart-Leaved Moonseed | Indian Tinospora | Heart- Leaved Tinospora in Tamil. This plant can be found growing wild on trees and shrubs and it can be easily identified with the heart shaped leaves.