BEAUTY

Beauty.

What is beauty?

Why, beauty is a must, for everybody and everything.

Because, beauty elucidates the qualities of living beings and things, but the aspects of beauty need to be preserved and conserved, without any discrimination. Beauty cannot be preserved and conserved selectively. It has to be preserved in all life forms matter, plant world and the animal kingdom, in all dimensions. It is very important for us, the Homo-sapiens, to remember always that if we wish to be really beautiful, then we must also take care, keep our communications living and keep the surrounding world beautiful.

To consider or project oneself as beauty, one has to keep the different parts of the body in their perfect function and appearance.

Beauty is something like purity in thought and purity in action.

Beauty has no particular form. In the periphery of humanity’s concept of beauty, appearance is a must, to project oneself, before the co-living, own species, as a perfect individual.

First of all, the complexion of the outer layer-skin , apart from many other organs, has to be maintained perfectly to make us beautiful. The skin of the body, be it of human, animal, bird, the plants and trees, functions as the air-conditioning layer of the body it covers.

For the maintenance of the perfect original body complexions, we have to realize that no artificial ways and means are neither long lasting nor healthy. To keep the skin texture in perfect and permanent healthy condition, some healthy practice are a must, but the following two observations were considered fundamentally vital.

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(i) Proper sleep; which is the real relaxation period of the body and mind, gives the skin its natural texture. It is not possible to keep the skin healthy without proper sleep, with the applications of medicines, vitamins or cosmetics only.

(ii) A trouble free digestive system. Not only trouble free or perfect, but immune to any disorder, Immune.

And in this era of pollution, we will have to find out, which natural ways are the best to keep us perfectly healthy.

Nature has everything in its store for us. What we need is the awakening to her.

Further complacency is un-affordable.

Here we have wild friends of Mother’s nature, let us see what they have in stock for us.

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Alternanthera sessilis (Linn.) R.Br.exDC.

(A.triandra Lam.)

Of the family Amaranthaceae

This particular weed grows throughout India, mostly in moist environment, upto 6,500 ft elevation. Known as:

Matsyaksi, Patturah,

in Sanskrit,

Gudrisag,

in Hindi,

Madaranga, Bana-madaranga,

in Oriya,

Ponnannkannikkirai

in Tamil,

Jaljambu

in Bangali,

Kachri

in Marwari,

Honnagune Soppu

in Kannada,

Ponnaguntakura

in Telugu,

Minannani

In Malayalam

. A bitter, sweet, astringent & cooling multi-branched weedherb of ground cover style, branches often purplish, rooting at most of the nodes; leaves opposite, lanceolate, ablanceolate or linear oblong, simple, fleshy to some extant, obtuse, or sub acute, sometimes obscurely denticulate, glabrous, shortly petiolate; flowers tiny, white, in axillary clusters; fruits compressed, obcordate, utricles, seeds sub orbicular.

This whole plant is useful in the vitiated conditions of kapha and pitta, indigestion and the immediate complications arising out of indigestion like diarrhoea, itching, dyspepsia, leprosy.

This weed can also be used as regular green diet.

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Alternanthera Sessilis

Amaranthaceae

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Andrographis Paniculata

Acanthaceae

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Andrographis paniculata (Burn.f.) wall.ex Nees

Of the family Acanthaceae

Known as:

Bhunimbah, Kiratatiktah

in Sanskrit,

Kalamegh, Kalpanath

in Hindi,

Nilavempu

in Tamil,

Bhuin nimba, Chireita, Jabitikta

in Oriya,

Kalmegh

in Bengali,

Nelaberu

in Kannada,

Nilaveru, Viriyatta

in Malayalam,

Oli-Kiryata

in Marwari,

Kariyatu

in Gujrati,

Creat, Grean Chiretta,

in English.

Grows throughout Indian plains and in forests as an undergrowth weed. A straight branched annual weed, ½ meter to ¾ meter in height with quadrangular branches; leaves simple, lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous, main nerves in 4-6 pairs; flowers small, pale but blotched and spotted with brownish purple distant in spread apart slack axillary extreme racemes, calyx-lobes glandular pubescent, anthers bearded at the base; fruits linear capsules, acute at both ends; seeds numerous, yellowish brown, sub-quadrate.

The whole of this plant is bitter – cooling acrid in potency. Useful in vitiated conditions of pitta, brief intense thirst, ulcers, chronic & intermittent fevers, skin diseases including leprosy and itching, malaria, wounds, intestinal worms, all sorts of stomach problems and hemorrhoids etc.

Taken at regular interval as juice diet, could prevent heart attack

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