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GENERAL DEBILITY… The whole human population is suffering from the symptom of general Debility. One of the most important conditions of living a whole life should be the life of full strength and confidence not a weak and miserable life. While facing the ups and downs of everyday’s living, one should feel spirited and sure, not unsure and depressed. To achieve the above the pinpointing of one’s consciousness is a must, but will that be possible, with all the small-time ailments constantly harboring the body? Now a days, the constant presence of cold related problems, skin diseases, indigestion, worm infestations in the stomach and most of all contaminated water in the body’s system, making the sweetness of living a burden. The option before humanity, the great mankind, though not yet fully ready to comprehend, this is, to turn to nature for it’s upkeeping, in the most natural way. And because not all tree varieties can grow and propagate in any one climate and soil conditions & no individual can grow them in great numbers, because of space problems, it is the kingdom of the WEEDS, which stands before humanity as one of the unalterable and best of all options ever. Only the Weeds, through their thick layer on the surface of the earth, and as secondary growth under trees and in open spaces, can filter and purify rain water falling on earth through a polluted atmosphere. Only weeds grow on their own, abound around human habitations without even a little appreciation. The natural approach to all the incidents of life is considered a life of balanced living. And without nature no balanced living - without balanced living, no balanced anything. Page - 66 The world of the WEEDS is the most inexpensive and reached by all and it has in its store everything to offer mankind and all creation in this Universe. Each one of the tiny life forms, are full of the most essential ingredients for our healthy survival… hidden in their humble-softsoothing existence. Page - 67 Of the family Fabaceae This, both garden and forest all over India round the year growing weed, climber in habit, popularly known as:
A nice looking twining weed with rounded stems and branches, leaves compound, imparipinnate, leaflets 5-7, elliptic oblong, obtuse; flowers blue or white, solitary, axillary or in fascicles, corolla papilionaceaous, resembles the hoof mark of horse and the ear of a cow; fruits straight but sharply bended like a beak towards the hanging end, flattened pods; seeds 6-10, smooth yellowish brown. All the parts of this weed of creeping habit has medicinal properties to cure us. Roots bitter & refrigerant in taste are beneficial in vitiated conditions of Pita, bronchitis, blockage of mind development from birth to an early age, persistent one sided headache, worm infested intestines, white patches on the skin, the white patches on the skin have to be taken care of if one does not wish to suffer from leprosy related infections at the later stage. Palm-sugar-candy water with this plants roots crushed can prevent bed-wetting and other urinary disorders. Extracts from the leaves can be used directly for pain in the ear, liver disorder and weaknesses. Page - 68
Clitoria ternatea Fabaceae Page - 69
Coccinia grandis Cucurbitaceae Page - 70 Submerse a few flowers in water for about six hours and wash the face and eyes in that water to make yourselves nice looking and to prevent the eyes form becoming sick and weak. Regular use makes one very calm and composed and in the cases of ladies it makes them beautiful and compassionate and loving like Radha (Krishna’s). Extraction from flowers could be mixed with lemon juice and then mixed and seasoned in direct sunlight to make an incomparable syrup/sarbat/health drink. As the flowers carry the consciousness of Radha so the seed also is by nature carthartic, promotes spiritual awakening and is useful in visceralgia. All the flowers of all the plants of this Universe have spiritual/inner significance, and so are worthy of the Gods. Page - 71 Coccinia grandis (Linn.) Voigt (Cephalandra indica (Wight & Arn.) Naud.) Of the family Cucurbitaceae This weed grows wild and also cultivated throughout India, very obstinate and cooling in nature, known popularly as:
An ever growing climber of many tendrils and branches, roots are mostly tuberous; leaves deltoid or subrotund, angled or lobed, bright green above and pale beneath; flowers white, unisexual; fruits ovoid or oblong or ellipsoid berries with white streakes, bright scarlet red when ripe; seeds ovoid, compressed, yellowish gray. This weed has two varieties; bitter and sweet. The roots are a beauty tonic and useful in burning sensation, vomiting and uterine discharges and its extraction mixed with sugar candy cures bed-wetting at any age. The bitter-sweet-astringent tested leaves are useful in vitiated conditions of kapha and pitta. The fruits are cooling and sweet, useful in skin diseases, intermittent fever, cold, asthma, failure of secretion of milk, consumption, jaundice and burning sensation. Page -72 The fruits and leaves of the bitter varieties are useful in kapha and pitta, indigestion, alexiteric, depurative, wounds, jaundice and liver problems. Very specific in curing or keeping the sugar level down in the cases of diabeties. In ‘Indian Medicines Plants’, ‘WEALTH OF INDIA’ and ‘MATERIA MEDICA’, Coccinia grandis is bimba, tuntika, tiktabimbi etc, in ASTANGAHRUDAYAM tindisam is one among Kusmandadiphalavargas (a group of fruits like ash-gourd etc). In ASTANGAHRUDAYAKOSAM tindisam is Trichosanthes laciniosa. In OSADHINIGHANTU tindisam is Citrullus colocynthis. Svadubimbi is sweet bimbi tiktabimbi is the bitter bimbi. Page - 73 |
