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Badi Elaichi/बडी इलायची/Amomum Subulatum/Greater Cardamom/Vrihat Ela
AYURVEDIC & MEDICINAL PLANTS
A spicy, cardamom-like fruit follows these,
A clustering ginger with stems growing up to 5ft tall. Leaves are found on the upper portion of the stem. This is an evergreen plant with the old stems dying down after a few years. The rhizomes are a dull red in color. Flower buds appear in spring from the base of the rhizome. The peduncle is short and the buds encased in tight red bracts. Flowers appear from spring through mid summer. Individual flowers stay open for three days and more and new ones open successively. An inflorescence stays in flower for over a month..
Badi Elaichi Medicinal Uses
It has been traditionally used as an appetizer, a digestant as well as an antispasmodic as recommended by Indian Ayurveda. It stimulates the heart and has also been used as an expectorant. The seeds are also used as constituents of mouthwashes.
Chemical Composition
The seeds contain 3% of an essential oil, which is dominated by 1,8-cineol (more that 70%). Smaller and variable amounts of limonene, terpinene, terpineol, terpinyl acetate and sabinene have also been reported.
Pacifies Vata and Kapha and aggravates Pitta.
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Erect or ascending herbs or shrubs; leaves opposite, the blades entire many-flowered; becoming elongate, with only a few flowers open at the same time; flowers hermaphrodite, solitary in axils of acute, membranous, persistent bracts. The petals are white
A tall herbaceous perennial with subterranean branching rootstock cultivated in warmer regions of India especially in north-eastern and southern states. Fruit is used as condiment and also possess several medicinal properties too.
Country mallow is a perennial herb. Stems, stout, branched, 1-2 m tall, pubescent. Leaves, cordate, dentate. Flowers, yellow in color, peduncle jointed above the middle. Fruits, capsule, densely pubescent, with conspicuous and horizontally spreading beaks
An unarmed climbing shrub with yellowish-green flowers found wild in tropical and subtropical Himalayas. Seeds possess medicinal properties.
A large branched evergreen tree growing in fallow lands. It is also cultivated as an avenue and roadside tree in almost every corner of the country. The tree is kept in high esteem in Indian mythology. Its generic epithet Azadirachta has been derived from