Cultivated flax plants grow to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) tall, with slender stems. The leaves are glaucous green, slender lanceolate, 20–40 mm long, and 3 mm broad. The flowers are pure pale blue, 15–25 mm in diameter, with five petals. The fruit is a round, dry capsule 5–9 mm in diameter, containing several glossy brown seeds shaped like an apple pip, 4–7 mm long.Flaxseeds occur in two basic varieties: brown, and yellow or golden (also known as golden linseeds). Most types have similar nutritional characteristics and equal numbers of short-chain omega-3 fatty acids.
Quick OverviewAada Thodai Ilai / Malabar nut is a small evergreen, subherbacious bush. The leaves are 10 to 16 cm in length, minutely pubescent and broadly lanceolate. When the leaves are dried, they appear dull brownish green in color and taste bitter.
Nut grass is a perennial shrub that attains a height of up to 40 cm. it has a dark green thin stem and the leaves are long and sharp. While the flower stem has a triangular cross-section, the flower is 2 to 8 inch in length, has three-stamina and a three-stigma carpel. It is also bisexual.
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.
Murungai known as Moringa oleifera ( Moringa Seed Powder ) is a small size tree approximately 5 to 10 m in 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. Besides being a good source of protein, vitamins, oils, fatty acids, micro-macro minerals elements, and various phenolics. Moringa seeds also offer many nutritional benefits. It contains.
Seven times more vitamin C than oranges.
Four times the amount of vitamin A found in carrots.
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.
Nathai Choori known as Borreria hispida, a weed is a procumbent, branched, hairy or rough herb 10 to 14 centimeters in length. The branches are greenish or purplish, ascending, stout, 4-angled. The leaves are ovate, spatulate, or elliptic, 1 to 3.5 centimeters long, 0.8 to 1.7 centimeters wide, and pointed or rounded at the tip.
Nattu Nilavagai / Cassia/ East Indian Senna Powder
Brand : 18G
Rs : 45
Weight : 50 Grams
Quick Overview:Senna is basically a flowering plant belonging to the legume family Fabaceae. It bears yellow, white and pink flowers. This shrub has its origin in North Africa, the Middle East and some parts of Asia. In Asia, it is mostly found in the temperate regions of India.The Cassia plant family has 300 – 600 species of trees, shrubs, vines and herbs with numerous species growing in the South American rain forests and tropics.
Neem tree is also known as the Indian Lilac or Margosa tree, widely famous in India as well as abroad for its medicinal purposes. It is a herb type, belongs to the Meliaceae family, commonly available all through year everywhere in India.
The papaya plant has an erect branchless trunk 6-20 ft tall, and a palmlike head of foliage at the top. The trunk remains somewhat succulent and soft wooded, and never develops true bark. It is ringed with prominent scars from previous leaf stems and contains an acrid milky latex sap.
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.
