Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

An ancient holy rose 🌹 with heavenly fragrance, and so many healing properties, wears few thorns for its protection, that are actually helping it to conserve water! Rosa × damascena, more commonly known as the Damask roses are renowned for their fine fragrance, and are commercially harvested for rose oil used in perfumery and to make rose water and "rose concrete". The flower petals are also edible. They may be used to flavor food, as a garnish, as a herbal tea, and preserved in sugar as gulkand. Rosa damascena is believed to have its origin in the foothills of Central Asia.  It is grown as an ornamental plant in warm climate regions. It is known as “Gul-ae-Mohammadi” in Iran. Iranian people call this plant, the flower of Prophet “Mohammad”. It finds a prominent place in Iranian medicine and Ayurveda and is traditionally used for treatment of abdominal and chest pains, strengthening the heart, menstrual disorders, digestive problems and co...

Barringtonia racemosa or powder puff tree is a tree of the Lecythidaceae family.  It is found in coastal swamp forests and on the edges of estuaries in Indian Ocean, starting at the east coast of Mozambique to Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Maldives, Singapore, Thailand, Laos, southern China, northern Australia, coastal Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands and many Polynesian islands. The wood is utilized as firewood, and for construction. The bark provides a source of fibre. The root of this tree has a bitter taste, and is used by Ayurveda practitioners on account of its laxative and cooling qualities. The seeds and bark are also used in native medicine; the latter is of a reddish colour, and is said to possess properties allied to the Cinchonas.  The pulverised fruit is used as snuff, and, combined with other remedies, is applied externally in diseases of the skin.  The powdered bark and all other parts of the plant were exploited as a fish poison...

Solanum torvum  Common names:  Turkey Berry, susumber, Bhurat, Bhankatiya  Solanaceae , is found throughout the world’s tropical regions, although it is native to Central America. The young fruits are edible after cooking. Whole plant is used as sedative, diuretic and stomachic. Fruit decoction is used to cure cough; useful in liver and spleen enlargement. Pounded roots are applied in cracks in the feet. Chennai,  Surendra Parihar 

Barleria cristata  common names:  Philippine violet  Gokran,  Crested Philippine violet, Vajradanti Acanthaceae, a native to India and southeast Asia is used in different ethnomedical systems for the treatment of a wide range of ailments.  Surendra Parihar 

Heliotropium indicum   Common names:  Indian Heliotrope,  Indian turnsole  Boraginaceae , a herb found in all tropical world. Flowers are born in a long tapering cluster at branch-ends, tip coiled. The plant has been widely used for centuries to treat warts, inflammations and tumours. Throughout tropical Africa it is used as an analgesic to ease rheumatic pain, as a diuretic and to treat numerous skin problems including yaws, urticaria, scabies, ulcers, eczema and impetigo. Throughout the Continent, there is a wide variation in the plant parts that are used, and also in methods of preparation and administration. Chidambaram,  Surendra Parihar