Plant Familys

Plant Familys:

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Plant Familys

Plant Familys:

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National Tropical Botanical Garden - Tropical Plant Research, Education, and Conservation.

National Tropical Botanical Garden - Tropical Plant Research, Education, and Conservation.:

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Curry Leaf Sambol

KARAPINCHA SAMBOL (CURRY LEAF SAMBOL)
Ingredients

• 2 cups curry leaves 
• 2 tbsp shredded coconut
• 2 cloves garlic chopped
• Small piece of ginger chopped
• 2 green chillies finely chopped
• 1/2 tspn mustard powder
• 1/2 tspn black pepper powder
• 1/2 Lime
• Salt to taste

Method

Add chopped garlic, ginger, green chillies, mustard powder, black pepper to a food processor. Squeeze 1/2 of a lime and 1 tspn water to the mixture and grind well. Now add the curry leaves and a little bit of water and grind it further till it becomes a paste. Finally, add the shredded coconut, salt to taste and grind it until well blended (or you could mix with your hand). Enjoy with Rice and curry or Those (dosa). Karapincha (Curry Leaf) controls high blood pressure, heart disease , diabetes and high cholesterol. Therefore this is a very healthy sambol. http://herbs.lk/karapincha.html

Iramusu Tea

Cooling Tea ( Iramusu Tea) Regular and habitual consumption of Iramusu Hearbal Tea ensures the benefits in the long term. The beverage is made available in easy to use tea bags. Indian Sarsaparilla include Sitestarol, Amairina, Desinine, Hemidesterol, Salicylic-aldehyde, Leupiyol, Tannin and Saponin. It is has been researched that the Indian Sarsaparilla roots contain medicinal strength And the roots dried has a capacity of 0.225% of (essential oil.) In the ancient Indian literatures, the Iramusu has been mentioned as an important medicine. In 1984 it was admitted in the British pharmacopoeia. Indian Sarsaparilla is being used to purify the blood and helps develop a clean system. The herb includes Sarsapogenin and Smilagenin. Until recently sportsmen were using a banned steroid for their vigor and vitality but now as a substitute the Indian Sarsaparilla has been introduced to be taken legally. Iramusu (Indian sarsaparilla ) is a perennial twining or creeping herb with a woody fragant Rootstock. it has slender hairless stem variable dark green leaves ,greenish flowers In small compact clusters and narrow cylindrical fruits .The dried roots constitute The drug .

Benefits of Cooling Tea (Iramusu Tea ) Iramusu Ayurvedic Herbal Tea Purifies the blood and helps develop a clean system. The herb contains a hair growing hormone. Iramusu Herbal Tea increases the appetite and assists in the digestion of food. Iramusu Herbal Tea acts as a diuretic, diaphoretic & demulcent. Iramusu herb Used as a treatment for acute rheumatism, urine problems, skin diseases & also phlegm. Iramusu Herbal Tea Improves the general health; "plumpness, clearness, and strength succeeding to emaciation, and debility." Iramusu Herbal Tea Relieves disorders of the kidneys, scrofula, cutaneous diseases, and thrush. Healing power and curatives properties of Iramusu, ( Indian sarsaparilla) The Iramusu, Indian sarsaparilla hearb root are a sweet tonic and exercise a soothing effect on the skin and Mucous membranes .they are useful in the correcting disorder due to the malnutrition ,purify blood ,promote flow of urine and restores the flow of the urine and restore normal body functions.

Belimal Herbal Tea

Belimal Herbal Tea  Regular and habitual consumption of Beli Mal Herbal Tea ensures the benefits in the long term  Slimming your way to a healthy lifestyle. Though more prized for its medicinal virtues than its edible quality, this interesting member of the family Rutaceae is, nevertheless, of sufficient importance as an edible fruit to be included here. Beli Mal (Aegle Marmelos (L) Correa) is cultivated throughout India, mainly in temple gardens, because of its status as a sacred tree; also in Sri Lanka and northern Malaya, the drier areas of Java, and to a limited extent on northern Luzon in the Philippine Islands where it first fruited in 1914. It is grown in some Egyptian gardens, and in Surinam and Trinidad. Seeds were sent from Lahore to Dr. Walter T. Swingle in 1909 (P.I. No. 24450).

Benefits of Belimal Herbal Tea  Totally natural Caffeine Free Beli Mal Ayurvedic Herbal Tea offers many medicinal benefits:- The herb is used effectively in relieving catarrh and fever. Beli Mal Ayurvedic Herbal Tea is used for treating asthma. Beli Mal Ayurvedic Herbal Tea is used to fight malaria. Beli Mal Ayurvedic Herbal Tea relieves palpitations, heart burn Indigestion, bowel disorders and vomiting The herb is used in conjunction with black pepper to relieve jaundice and constipation

Take the Eat Local Challenge! Be ready

Take the Eat Local Challenge!

Take the Eat Local Challenge

Take the challenge anytime! Just follow the steps below whenever you feel inspired to commit to a week of eating locally and seasonally.  Whatever you choose, be sure to share your experience with EAT LOCAL FIRST. We want to hear from you!

How can I participate?

1. For one week, commit to the following:

• Spend 10% of your grocery budget on local food — grown within a 100-mile radius of wherever you live.
• Try one new fruit or vegetable each day.
• Preserve food to enjoy later in the year.

2. Track your progress using the Eat Local Challenge scorecard which we will introduce soon.

3. Send EAT LOCAL FIRST your completed scorecard or submit your story about eating locally.

Later send in your scorecard and/or story. If you submit a story, we just might include your experience in a future issue of EAT LOCAL FIRST by Pubudu Blog

10 Ways to Eat Locally

How to Eat Locally

Shop weekly at your local farmers market.

10 Ways to Eat Locally

1 Shop weekly at your local farmers market or farm stand

2 Join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and get weekly deliveries of the season's harvest

3 Buy from local grocers and co-ops committed to stocking local food

4 Support restaurants and food vendors that buy locally produced food

5 Preserve food from the season — freeze, can, dry — to eat later in the year

6 Throw a "Locally-Grown Party" and serve all local food

7 Grow your own food in your yard or community garden plot

8 Visit local farmers and "u-picks"

9 Ask your grocer or favorite restaurant what local foods they carry

10 Visit the Eat Local resource web pages

Gotukola Kanda

Posted on October 17, 2011 by watermelonfactory

Gotukola Kanda

Bunch of gotukola and scrapped cocunut

I wanted to make something as ordinary as Gotukola Kanda worthy of a blog entry. Kanda (or porridge) has become part of our breakfast lately, as a healthy alternative to cereal. When I’ve run out of Gotukola I have also tried a mix herb kanda (Hathawariya, Karapincha and Polpala) picking most of it from my mother’s garden. You could say that Gotukola Kanda is #1 in our home.

Gotukola is a perennial which roots at the nodes as it spread across the ground. It has kidney-shaped or fan like leaves. The size of which could vary according to soil and amount of sunshine recieved. Gotukola is known to be a plant with medicinal value, and is heavily used in the practice of Ayurvedhic medicine. Also known as Pennywort it is a popular herb used in  South American, Indian and Chinese herbal folk medicine. It’s believed to be a cure for  rheumatism, urinary disorders and inflammation. I grow them in a pot at the back of my kitchen. A handfull from that is not adequate so I usually buy a bunch from the Supermarket.

Ingredients:

• Small bunch of Gotukola, picked, washed & drained
• 1/4 cup red rice
• 2 garlic
• 3/4 cup grated coconut
• salt

Coconut, handful of red rice and garlic

Method:

I bet you could do this in just 20 minutes. Keep the rice on the fire wih just enough water to cook, add garlic, halved and salt. While it cooks grate the coconut and chop the bunch of Gotukola. Add to the liquidiser and add water to the half way mark and blend. Strain the liquid and add to the rice on the stove, let the porridge simmer for about 4-5 minutes. Take it off the fire and let it stand for another 5 minutes before serving.

Serve with yummy Kithul Hakuru! or plain.

Ranawara Herbal Tea

Ranawara herbal Tea 

Regular and habitual consumption of Ranawara Herbal Tea ensures the benefits in the long term. The Herbal Tea beverage is made available in easy to use tea bags.

Cassia Auriculata Linn Ranawara Plant contains Senapickrine, Sponhine and Glucocie.The leaves and stems of the Ranawara plant contain Auksemeethial Anthorokvinon and is rich in Tannin. The plant in addition contains Emodian, Sitothrol and Rutin and the flower of the plant contains Auricacasidin, Kaemferol and Sitosterol

Benifites of Ranawara herbal Tea

• Ranawara Ayurvedic herbal Tea gives the clear complexion.
• Ranawara herb acts as an agent in restoring sexual vitality, increases sperm count, and counter acts ejaculatory disorders.
• Ranawara herb is used as a treatment for diabetes
• Ranawara Ayurvedic herbal Tea is also effective in relieving urinary problems, assists in stomach cleaning and restoration of the skin to its natural glow.
• Acts as an agent in easing discomfort in women during menstruation

In Africa the herb has been used for treating body aches, eye irritations, diabetes and venereal disease.

Ranawara
Vernacular Name: Sinhala: Ranawara; Eng: Tanners cassia,Tam: Avarai, Avirai,
Propagation: By seeds.
Parts Used: Roots, bark, leaves, flowers, seeds.
Chemical Constituents: Emodin, chiysophanol, rubiadin.
Uses: The roots are astringent, cooling, alterative. depruative and alexeteric, and are useful in skin diseases, leprosy, tumours, asthma and urethrorrhoea. The bark is astringent and alternative, and a decoction of this is used as enemas and gargles. The leaves are depurative and anthelmintic, and are recommended for leprosy, skin diseases and ulcers. The flowers are used in diabetes, urethrorrhoea, nocturnal emissions and pharyngopathy. The seeds are astringent. Sour, cooling, constipating, depurative, aphrodisiac, anthehnintic, tinea stomachic and alexeteric, and are useful in diabetes, chyluria, ophthalmia, dysentery, sided diarrhoea, swellings, abdominal disorders, leprosy, skin diseases, worm infestations and chronic purulent conjunctivitis.