CREATIVE THOUGHT….

Creative work….

You see! I am doing something creative along side my daily routine work. You must do something creative everyday to ease your mental tension and so on….Why is not every work accepted as creative……? May be it is because most of the daily work schedule were pre-programmed and the individual has only to follow the instructions, without having any much scope for applying the mind’s creative courses.

Being creative means, doing some activity which brings out from within the individual all the aspects of breaking and making, paving the way, for always in every instant there is a new something to bring the being nearer to the source of existence.

It is most amazingly creative to plant a tree, take care, observe it grow, like growing oneself along with it, see it flowering and feel the own inner being bloom; and finally the fruiting, symbolizing the creativity in one’s thought and action. The very source of thought is creation, the spirit of creativity.

If the humanity’s creative thoughts can be used for the need of the hour, that is the preservation and conservation of the raw Nature, it would be the most creative source of service- not only to humanity but to the whole world.

Let us start with the Earth sustaining the world of weeds, the indigenous species of the Earth. If observed creatively, the world of WEEDS could be the most charming to any one. It’s source of creative inspiration is creatively unending and enchantingly eternal. There can be no end to the creative creations.

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Cardiospermum halicacabum Linn.

Of the family Sapindaceae

This here is a climber-creeper weed, grows mainly in the Indian plains. Known as,

This is a pubescent or nearly glabrous whimsically habitat weed-herb of slender branches, climbing by means of tendril hooks, leaves ternately bi-compound, leaflets acuminate at the apex; flowers white, small; fruits membranous, depressed, pyriform capsule winged at the angles; seeds black with a large white heart shaped aril.

Mainly the roots, leaves and seeds of this plant were used; roots used in the cases of painful urination drop by drop, fever, amenorrhoea and mental disturbances. The leaves were used for curing the pain in the ear, pain in the eye and arthritis etc., and the seeds are used in the cases of less of loss of perspiration and arthritis etc.

The decoction of this plant has sedative effect on the central nervous system.

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Cardiospermum halicacabum

Sapindaceae

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Centella asiatica

Apiaceae

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Centella asiatica (Linn.) Urban.

(Hydrocotyle asiatica Linn.)

Of the family Apiaceae

Grows throughout India, near water-ways and likewise environment, known as:

This weed is a round the year growing thin herbaceous creeper with rooted nodes and long internodes; leaves simple with elongated petioles and sheathing leaf bases broadly cordate, reniform. Crenate or sinuate toothed; flowers pink, almost sessile, more then 2 in fascicled umbels; fruits laterally compressed with two mericarps having about 8-9 subsimilar ridges.

The whole of this weed bitter, sweet, astringent and cooling in it’s characteristic constituents, is useful in the vitiated conditions of pitta, insomnia, asthma, cold, body weakness, worm infestation, stomach disorders, skin deficiencies, painful urination, tension and heart instability etc. This is a weed for stamina, strength and trouble free stomach when used regularly.

One has to make this weed a part the daily diet to realize it’s real contribution to the health system. The leaves can be consumed by chewing or by extracting the juices.

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