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Hedychium spicatum (Kapoor kachri, Shati, Karchur) - Zingiberaceae, a rhizomatous, fragrant leafy herb with robust stem. Rhizomes have strong aromatic odour and bitter.  Rhizome is aromatic, acidic, bitter, pungent, carminative, stomachic, stimulant, expectorant, anti-asthmatic, antiseptic, and anti-inflammatory. It is useful in asthma, bronchitis, vomiting, dyspepsia, and inflammations. One of the most important plant in Ayurveda. Reference  Surendra Parihar Ex.Professor and Head. Deptt. of Seed , Science and Technology. Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa,  New Delhi,  India 110012

🐍 🫛 Chinese long bean, Yardlong Bean or Snake bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis) is a climbing annual plant from the family Fabaceae.  🐍🫛You can spot the beans of this plant in most wet market stalls here.  🌿The plant can be identified by its leaves that are dark green, trifoliate with 3 leaflets, where the first two leaflets are asymmetrical while the terminal leaflet is symmetrical. 🐍🫛The beans start growing after 2 months of sowing seeds. They require full sun, moderate water and well drained soil for optimal growth. 🐍🫛Grown mainly for its edible green pods it is a major food crop of South East Asia. The young succulent pods are crisp and have a distinct beany flavour unlike the sweet flavour of green beans. These pods are consumed fresh or cooked. Reference  https://www.facebook.com/myplantdiaries?mibextid=ZbWKwL Plants of Singapore

Chapter 10 - The Eight Limbs Of Yoga  Day 92  They thin down the curtain around the light. You are the light, but you don't know this because there is a thick curtain around you, an iron curtain. Pranayama thins down that curtain, and makes you more transparent so that you are able to see that you are light. This is the benefits of pranayam. And then there is another benefit, The mind develops this ability to stay at any one point in the body, to say on any one thing. It gains the ability to intend. Until then, there had been no intention. You were just like a moving cloud.  You had no intention at all. Now with pranayama, there is clarity and you are able to have an intention and a direction. That is why you will notice, after a good pranayama, your mind is clearer, steadier and calmer. You are able to feel your body. You are able to even meditate. The mind is used to clinging to objects of the senses.  Guided meditations give it something different to c...

Chapter 10 - The Eight Limbs Of Yoga  Day 91  It is natural to obstruct the flow of breath in an asana. Patanjali said that it is obstructing the natural flow of your breath because it is not natural at all. You have made your breath very unnatural.  So whatever you feel is natural, is not actually natural. We have to return to the natural way of breathing. We do this by gati, breaking its movement. We break its movement consciously by breathing deep, long and subtle, with counts and by keeping our attention on different parts of the body.  In just one sutra, Patanjali has described all the pranayamas. Breathe in, hold, breathe out and hold - with different counts and with attention on various parts of the body. That is all. Most of the pranayamas are there in one sentence; in one sutra.  But there's one more pranayama, which happens automatically. When all the thoughts and ideas are cleared from the mind, there is a natural pranayama. It throws out ...