IMMUNITY

This word signifies for us a condition of being able to resist disease through prevention of pathogenic micro-organisms or by counteracting the effects of their products.

Of late, most of humankind’s health problems were related to a lack of immunity. A weak body is always vulnerable to all sorts of adverse effects and diseases. Physical immunity is a must for the effective functioning of human beings. Without physical immunity a person can’t behave normally.

Why can we, not have immunity naturally? Why is our immunity which is a simultaneous happening in us, dwindle away, halfway?

Can we, afford to continue to ignore the core factor of lack of immunity, in our body’s system?

The most favourable and sweetest of events in the living duration of any human being is the natural relationship between man and woman has become, transformed, into a curse, due to the immunity deficiency factor.

Why should we suffer and die helplessly at all? Why can’t we make ourselves naturally healthy, beautiful, immune to all the mortal defects, deformations and even death?

Why are we instrumental in destroying the green world around us, which could provide us immunity. Which is dangerous to us, the green world or the greenhouse gases?

We walk on artificial surfaces, we eat artificially stimulated food , we drink exciting drinks, we inject ourselves with artificially manufactured medicines and drugs but we refuse to recognize the beneficial existence of trees and plants around us, how puzzling, is not it?

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We can have immunity only when learn to love and conserve nature, and in the process integrate ourselves into our natural surroundings.

We are a part of this universal nature. When we cut a tree or clean up a forest cover of wild plants and animals for whatever reason, it is certain that we destroy an infra-structural part of ourselves, that is immunity.

We have all our remedies around us in nature. The tiny roadside flower of a weed may seem to us very insignificant, but its contribution to our immune system is not insignificant.

Let us see what these tiny insignificant wild beauties have offer us.

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Cocculus hirsutus (Linn.) Diels

(C.villosus Lam.)

Of the family Menispermaceae,

This bitter-acrid-thermogenic climber shrub weed grows throughout India mostly in dry lands, known as:

This here is a whimsical lonely climber shrub weed with softly hairy tender parts; leaves simple, alternate, ovate-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, sub-cordate or truncated at the base, softly hairy on both surfaces, petioles densely hairy; male flowers small, in axillary cymes panicles, female flower 2-3 together in axillary clusters, petals thick and fleshy, divided at the apex into two triangular lobes, claw hairy; fruits transversely rugose/full of wrinkles, purplish black drupes.

The roots and leaves of this weed useful in vitiated conditions of KAPHA & VATA, skin diseases, cold related problems, indigestion, bone fractures, general debility, intermittent fevers, painful urinations drop by drop, hypertension, insect bites, headache etc.

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Cocculus hirsutus

Menispermaceae

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Costus Speciosus

Zingiberaceae

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Costus speciosus (Koenig ex Retz.) J.E. Smith

Zingiberaceae family

It is known as:

This bitter and astringent tasting weed grows everywhere in moist Indian localities, a succulent herb with ablanceolate, glabrous above and silky pubescent beneath leaf, spirally arranged around the twisted stem like a staircase, about 2m in height, flowers vary from light pink to whitish, large, fragrant in dense terminal spikes, tracts bright red, stamen only one, perfect, lip large with incurved margins; fruits globose or ovoid capsules, seeds ovoid or subglobose.

The rhizomes are mostly used in cases of indigestion, cough, worms in the stomach, constipation and foul body odor and many other complications useful in Kapha and Pitta. To keep the digestive system perfect, one will have to keep the stomach clean of worms, regularly. And a normal clean body odour keeps the texture of the skin healthy. The use of powdered and fresh juice form of this plants rhizomes, keeps the stomach immune to indigestion, skin glowing and attractive, so a perfectly healthy individual. Identification of the particular plant and the doses required for the particular complications.

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