THE LAND OF OUR BIRTH

The land of our birth, the soil of India, the climates of India and its vast forests have everything in their store for us. To feed us, to cloth us, to keep us healthy, to keep us young, - even to keep us young forever. To keep us immune to the diseases and to keep us ready for every eventuality concerning our physical and mental health.

It is not for nothing that the Divine Mother and the Master have selected this land for the descent and manifestation of the Supramental upon earth. No forces can be greater then the forces of nature (Prakriti), that is, the forces of the Divine Mother. And no gift is more lasting and valuable, then the gift of nature, which offers us, the Humanity, many unending species of the vegetal kingdom. The innumerable plant species around us, often ignored by us, in our hurried way of living are growing from the time immemorial, always ready to be in service to us, the Humanity, the greatest creation of all the creations, upon this Universe, by the Gods.

It is mostly argued that Gods created all the other species to serve Humankind, to make Humankind comfortable in their lives. So therefore we, the Humankind, should spontaneously take care of all the species, which is only fair. We should be more conscious and caring about all the other species around us. Our running must stop. We should try to walk. The real walk, which makes us aware of every single particle of the cosmic elements we touch, both physically and subtle-physically. We have to learn, while walking, to see the world around us, not just look at it. Then only we will be able to find the remedies for all our problems naturally, with the help of the natural world, which the Divine Mother has arranged around us.

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Eclipta prostrata (Linn.) Linn.

(E.alba (Linn.) Hassak.)

Of the family Asteraceae

This weed grows everywhere in India, popularly known as:

This bitter-acrid weed is a multi branched plant with roots at the nodes; leaves opposite, strigose; flowers mauve & white, ray compressed.

The plant as a whole is useful in vitiated conditions of vata, skin diseases, dental pain, pain in the ear, headache, wounds, ulcers, eye problems, specially good as hair tonic and hair dye.The seeds are taken to cure impotence.

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Eclipta prostrata Asteraceae

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Enicostemma axillare Gentianaceae

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Enicostemma Axillare (Lam.) Raynal

(=E.littorale auct. non Blume)

Of the family Gentianaceae.

Grows throughout India commonly in costal areas as a weed and popularly known as:

This is a weed growing around the year, about half a meter in height form a thick root system/stock, stems and branches sub quadrangular; leaves simple, opposite, sessile, linear, linear-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, non-hairy, 3-nerved marginal nerves often obscure; flowers white, tubular in whorled axillary clusters; fruits ellipsoid capsules, thin at the base and round-shaped at the apex with the remains of the style. The whole of this weed can be used as a liver tonic and a tonic for general debility and depression, very useful in the aggravated conditions of KAPHA & VATA, skin diseases including leprosy, prolonged contagious itching, frequent fevers causing weakness to the body, indigestion, dropsy, hernia, swelling, constipation, colic and ulcers etc; is bitter – acrid – thermogenic in it’s characteristic constituents. The extract (often hand crushed in case of emergency) of this weed is locally applied in Snakebite.

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