Quick OverviewAloe vera is a stemless or very short-stemmed plant growing to 60–100 cm tall, spreading by offsets, sometimes described as a “wonder plant”. The leaves are thick and fleshy, green to grey-green, with some varieties showing white flecks on their upper and lower stem surfaces.
Cardiospermum Halicacabum, known as the balloon plant or love in a puff, is a climbing plant widely distributed in tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia. It has been examined for antidiarrhoeal as well as homoeopathic medicina properties.
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.
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”.
In Ayurveda ,Nochi is a Medicinal Plant, known as Chaste tree. It is a large aromatic shrub, with small bluish purple flowers, found throughout India.There are three types – Venn Nochi, Karu Nochi and Nir Nochi. Venn Nochi is the more commonly seen tree. Nir Nochi is found on the banks of the Thamiraparani river in Tamil Nadu.The Nochi tree is a nice tree to have in the garden. It is easy to propagate from cuttings about two cm thick. It grows wild in rural Tamil Nadu, India.
A rose is a woody, thorny plant of the rosaceae family. There are more than one hundred species of roses, with large showy flowers in many different colors. Roses are considered native to Asia, but are also grown in Europe, northern Africa, and North America.“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” says Juliet in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, which is so very true of the rose that has captured the minds and hearts of people through the ages.
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.