UNDERSTANDING

This is a very commonly used word in our daily interactions. But do we really understand this word, “understanding”? Do we really understand our surroundings, this Universe and ourselves?

Understanding is the chief ingredient, in all the ingredients of living. One cannot do any meaningful adjustment, without understanding. True understanding means to make oneself one with Universal Nature, to feel everything and everybody, while staying in one particular body limitations. True understanding is also sharing of one’s means with others.

One should be selfish and say: I understand everything. In our excitement of rushness, for individual gains, we have never hesitated to harm our fellow human beings, or any other being including the surrounding atmosphere, physically as well as mentally. Understanding has got nothing to do with charity or sympathy.

Understanding is equality in accepting everybody and everything around us in all the matters of entirety. As long as we remain unable to understand the importance of green surroundings we will continue to suffer at the hands of diseases and death. Without proper understanding we humans cannot have Universal harmony in action. The result is great suffering for all from lack of communications between beings and atmospheres.

Without a perfect & true understanding, we cannot establish the inner rhythm and communication, which connects to the Universal nature. The body, the universal body of the homo-sapiens species have to be disease and defect free to achieve the above. Any human being suffering anywhere, in any remote corner of this Universe, is the suffering of the whole humanity, perceptions otherwise have proved wrong, so far. Nothing is personal in this Universe. We are all made of the same stuff. Alienation from this simple observation is a lack of perfect understanding.

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Our body must have the adequate direct dose of natural ingredients, to keep it in direct contact with the nature which only has the means to keep us in the right track of Universal harmony in action, so in Universal inner line of communication which is called the UNDERSTANING.

All our inability arises from body complications, which stimulates and simultaneously affects the mind and so the human habits and attributes. Only a perfect human body can house a perfect mind, which can generate the true understanding, which understands truly, understands all.

Lack of understanding is one of the prominent causes for the mankind’s suffering at present.

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Tinospora cordifolia (Wild.)

Miers ex Hook. f & Thoms.

of the family Menisperaceae

This is a countryside creeper weed grows throughout Indian tropical region, known as:

A weed (climber) of the combination of sweet-sour-bitter taste, grows everywhere where free growths of wild plants are permitted by humans. Its long creeping/climbing stems are glabrous succulent, deep green under the paper-thin brown-gray bark. Leaves: deciduous, alternate, cordate, entire, glabrous, 8-9 nerved. Flowers; yellow in lax racemes, arising from nodes on the old wood, female flowers solitary, male flowers in clusters; fruits drupes, red in ripe.

The ripe fruits are used for any kind of fever after they were dried, fried and powdered and mixed in honey. The juices of the stem can be taken regularly to keep youthfulness . The occasional use prevents ageing of the skin before due age, especially on the face.The juice of the stem has properties to make one powerful in love and more attractive to the opposite sex.Women can use the juice of the stem on their otherwise disinterested husbands, to make them more loving .Love is a very important aspect of every life. And any disinterestedness is considered as a deficiency in potency.Before using thease wild plants make sure of any health problems to have beneficial results.This weed grows everywhere.

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Tinaspura cordifolia Menispermaceae

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Tragia involucrata Euphorbiaceae

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Tragia involucrata Linn.

of the family Euphorbiaceae

This bitter-sweet-acrid-cooling-stinging and climbing weed grows throughout India, upto 2500ft elevation, popularly known as:

A weed of perennial evergreen character, climbing and hispid with scattered stinging hairs; stems lean, elongate, twining; leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, oblong-lanceolate to broadly ovate, serrate, base rounded or cordate; flowers shortly pedicellate, in terminal axillary and leaf-opposed racemes, male flowers many in the upper part, female flowers few in the lower part; ovary 3-lobed, styles 3; fruits capsules, 3-lobed; seeds globose, smooth.

The roots of this weed are used in the complications or PITTA, puritic skin eruptions, hemorrhoids, diabetes, stomach ailment, guinea worm, blood impurities, dispepsia, vomiting, giddiness, melalgia and brachialgia. The leaves are effective for headache. Because of the intense stinging qualities of this weed/ climbing weed, in many part of India, used on the fences but also can be used on the fruiting trees to prevent pilferage.

*Remarks: In ‘Ayurvedic Formatory of India’, commentaries on ‘DHANVANTARINIGHANTU’, RAJANIGHANTU, ‘BHAVAPRAKASANIGHANTU’ and ‘DRAVYAGUNAVIJNAN’ the botanical name given for DURALABHA is FAGONIA CRETICA LINN. In south India, generally Tragia involucrata Linn. is being used in the name of KOTUTTUVA for DURALABHA.

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