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YOUTH IS THE REAL ESSENCE OF LIFE Youth is the real essence of life. Without youth any life is a life without dreams. Youthfulness originates and activates the dream of life. There are a few health complications which are now the causes of concern among the young people. The complications are not of a severe type, so are therefore usually neglected in their early stages. When identified at a later stage lots of factory made high-concentrated medicines are taken for the cure. The high-density medicines leave the whole system weak and vulnerable, it supresses complication but does not cure it. Sometimes the side effects are so severe that it makes a body appear much older than it’s real age. The periods of youthfulness are periods of great psychological development in any body. Without the proper care to prolong youthfulness in a body, in any body, no growth proper would be perfect. A dry, weak and untimely aged body couldn’t dream a perfect and progressive dream. Dream in any life is a must, because “dream is the minds planning of the body’s future course of action”. Here again the meaning of dream shouldn’t be only the dream in the deep sleepstate, but a living in the realm of dream while simultaneously living in this day to day world, which continues non-stop, which grows along the growth of every particular individual, as per it’s physical and psychological healthy or unhealthy condition. The aim among the young people, and all the people should be to make oneself immune to any disease, with the help of one’s daily diet. Only intake of natural food in the daily diet can keep your youthfulness intact. So many wild greens and weeds are growing around us without any personal care. They can be used very conveniently and most inexpensively for the upkeep of one’s youthfulness. Page - 188 Good living habits are important to preserve youthfulness. Among many healthy habits the daily diet is one of the most important at that, because it is not only important to take a nutritionally balanced diet but to take it also in the correct quantity. Poeple often violate the required quantity and over-eat . Tasty food makes the body really greedy and one inadvertently consumes more then is good for health. Unnatural body growth will have unnatural dreams, imbalanced dreams, which will misguide, any body in the eternal journey towards eternal youth. Page - 189 Of the family Verbenaceae This bitter-acrid-thermogenic-aromatic shrub characteristically fence-line growing weed grows throughout India, upto the elevation of 4800ft, most popularly known as:
A large aromatic shrub-weed, stems and branches quadrangular; leaves opposite, extipulate, long petioled and digitately 3-5 foliolate, leaflets with petiolules, the middle one usually longer; flowers bluish purple in panicles upto about 30cm long, fruits globose or ovoid or obovoid, four-seeded drupe, deepblack when ripe. The roots of this weed are useful in Vata, headache, cold, stomach disorder, worm-infestation, urinary disorder, joint problems, ladies menstruation problems, ear infections, skin diseases, fever etc. The leaves are useful in Vata related diseases, eye problems, kaphajajwara and specially used by rural people for repelling pests of stored grains , cleaning lice from livestock’s and as decoction in hot water bath to prevent and cure cold and skin diseases. The flowers are used in curing diarrhoea and other stomach troubles, liver weakness, heart instability etc. Page - 190
Vitex negundo Verbenaceae Page - 191
Wedelia chinensis Asteraceae Page - 192 Wedelia chinensis (Osbeck) Merrill (W. calendulaceae Less) Of the family Asteraceae, This bitter, astringent, acrid and thermogenic weed grows in wet places and coastal areas, known as:
A procumbent perennial weed of three different types, white flowered, blue flowered and yellow flowered with stem rooting at the nodes; leaves simple, sub-sessile, linear-oblong, oblanceolate, scabrous with short white hairs; flowers yellow in tetragonous rayed axillary or terminal heads; fruits turncate, compressed or tubercled achenes without pappus or with a ring of round scales. The whole of this weed is a very benificial in ‘Viral hepatitis’; in the cases of Kapha and Vata related complications, untimely grayness of hairs and baldness, dysopia, dyspepsia, elephantiasis, strangury, seminal weakness, nyctalopia, anaemia, morbid state due to infestation of worms, deep headache etc. These weeds are often thrown and discarded as plants of no value, but in fact they have so much to offer us, - the Humanity. Page - 193 Withania somnifera (Linn.) Dunal Of the family Solanaceae This plant, a weed grows all over India, on it’s own and also cultivated by the rustic population for regular green use along with the vegetables, known among them as:
A straight-growing undershrub upto 150/160 cm in height, usually clothed with minutely stellate tomentum; leaves upto ten cm long; flowers greenish or lurid yellow in axillary fascicles; fruits globose berries which are orange coloured when mature, enclosed in a persistent calyx. The flashy roots when dry are cylindrical, gradually tapering down with a brownish white surface and pure white inside when broken. The bitter, astringent and acrid roots and leaves of this weed is useful in vitiated conditions of VATA, skin problems, stomach disorder, insomnia, joint sweeling, sexual and general weakness. Paste and powder of the leaves and roots of this weed are used for, to cure the above complications but can, when taken time to time with other vegetables, prevent these problems. In many parts of rural India this is a traditionally rustic green (sag, kkirai). Page - 194
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