SARS! WHY ?

And now the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, why?

It will be most illusory for Mankind to believe that this is something suddenly descended from somewhere on humanity. In fact, it is being noticed now because of it’s severity, because the body’s system has become vulnerable enough to host SARS due to lack of immunity.

How can someone or something breathe fresh and healthy air when so many vehicles operate on tar-roads everywhere always? Where are the much needed natural green covers in-between the roads, to absorb the green house gases emitted from the vehicles?

It may be recalled that Grandmothers and Great- Grandmothers, especially in rural areas until a few years back, used to advice certain green recipes and green remedies in different seasons, seasonal changes and in sudden climatic changes, to prevent the body’s vulnerability to various ailments, which is also called the development of the body’s immunity, in a natural method.

Why greens? Because greens only have nature’s secret qualities to balance the much needed minerals, to adjust the mineral proportions in any living organism.

Without IMMUNITY we are nowhere. Great mankind has nowhere to run from the cruel pursuit of present day terminal diseases. Humanity should try to make itself strong by maintaining the immunity in the body’s system, make turn and face the onslaught of terminal diseases with equal ferocity. No sophisticated manmade nutrients and vitamins have the integrity to provide complete immunity to mankind. Only green nature can do so.

Let the weeds grow along with all other cultivated plant species. Weeds need a little or no care at all. Use weeds in the daily diet. Extract weeds to cure common ailment and for preventionetc. Make weeds the most inexpensive green world, a part of your daily life. And, finally, observe with living intensity, the slow but everlasting difference they are capable of creating inside your living organism.

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Ipomoea pes – caprae (Linn.) R.Br.

Of the family Convolvulaceae (I.biloba Forssk.)

This weed has several species; Ipomoea biloba Forsst, Ipomoea nil, Ipomoea sepiaria, Ipomoea mauritiana, Ipomoea batatas, Ipomoea petigridis, Ipomoea aquatica (Kalmi saga), Ipomoea purpuria, Ipomoea quamoclit, Ipomoea cairica, Ipomoea pirga Heyne (Exogonium purga benth), Ipomoea obscura, Ipomoea hederifolia, Ipomoea carnea carnea and others. Now a days, many of them are grown for greens purposes and also for ornamental purposes. The one, Ipomoea aquatica (Kalmi sag) is very nutritious and clearsup the stomach of its stagnation.

This particular species, grows throughout India, mostly along sandy waterways, known as:

This astringent-acrid flavoured weed is a trailing sand binding ever-growing plant with long tap root; leaves two-lobed, alternate, smooth, parallel veined; flowers large, purple red, solitary, corolla tubular-funnel or cone shaped; fruits ovoid, non-hairy capsules, seeds-4, dark brown covered with densely matted hairs. The whole of this plant is useful in stomach problems, wounds, boils, skin diseases, menorrhagia, inflammation of the rectum, prolapse of the rectum, colic, gas in the stomach and intestine, painful urination, PITTA and burning sensations etc.

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Ipomoea pes-caprae Convolvulaceae

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Ipomoea sepiaria Convollvulaceae

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Ipomoea sepiaria Roxb.

(=I.maxima auct.non (Linn.f.)Sweet)

Of the family Convolvulacae

This climber grows almost everywhere in India upto an elevation of about 200m, on other shrubs and bushes, mostly near waterways and around the village tanks. Not a vigorous, but a twining perennial with usually villous stems and slightly tuberous roots; leaves simple, alternate, petiolate, ovate-cordate with a wide sinus and rounded basal lobes, blotched with brownish or purplish patches towards the center; flowers pale pink or purple, large funnel shaped in umbellate or sub-umbellate axillary cymes; fruits ovoid capsules, about 8mm long, 2 or 4 seeded, covered gray with silky pubescence.

This plant is sweet and cooling in it’s characteristic constituents, useful in vitiated conditions of pitta, hyperdipsia, burning sensations, strangury, general debility and mostly effective in cases of sterility in women. Regular intake of the juice of this plant for a few days, cures sterility in women, provided, the individual does not suffer from any other complication or disease.

Finally it is faith that cures. Unsure individuals should take the advice of expert Nature cure specialists known and trusted by them.

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Justicia beddomei (Clarke) Bennet

(=Adhatoda beddomei C.B.Clarke)

Of the family Acanthaceae,

This weed grows in the backyard of the most Indian household and also in the fields and hilly regions throughout India and known as:

A largeernon-hairy shrub of bitt-astringent taste, unpalatable for the goats and cattle, specially goats which eat every plant, stay away from this weed so the name, leaves opposite, short petioled upto 15cm long, about 4cm broad, flower heads short, dense spikes, fruits long and solid capsules.

The leaves of this aromatic weed are useful in complicated cold problems and bleeding in diarrhea, especially in spitting of blood. Flowers for ophthalmia and roots along with leaf juice are useful in very strong cold and phthisis.

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Justicia beddomei Acanthaceae

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Kalanchoe pinnata Crassulaceae

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Kalanchoe pinnata (Lam.) Pers.

(Bryophyllum calycinum Salish.)

Of the family Crassulaceae

This round the year growing succulent, is a glabrous plant of about 1m height grows throughout India, with obtusely fourways stems, upper parts reddish spotted with the patches of white which is most medicinally valued used part; opposite, decussate, the lower usually simple, the upper usually 3-7 foliolate, longpetioled- united by a ridge round the stem, crenatures at the extremities of the lateral nerves furnished with the rooting plantlets; spreading panicles; fruits membranous follicles enclosed in the persistent papery calyx and corolla, seeds smooth, ellipsoid.

The leaves are also the main source of multiplications; one single leaf kept pressed inside the book germinates many plantlets. The leaves have the medicinal properties to heal cuts, wounds & burns; to cure acute inflammation,ophthalmic, sloughing, ulcers, diarrhea, scalds, vomiting, dysentery, corn, boils and discoloration of the skin.

But it is very important that before any use, an individual must be sure of his or her complications. The plant has leaves, which are astringent, sour and sweet in taste.

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