My postage stamp garden of unusual herbs & plants
Index Home Our tryst with health-care, and use of plants as healers is long. While more well developed health systems used these in their formulary, remote and untouched communities also had…
Fifteen famous herbs and their use for health
Index Home List of medicinal plants is long. This list gives space to both rare as well as common. Some of these plants, have beautiful and colourful flowers. Others have pungent…
Award for most popular health plant goes to Aloe vera
Index Home We all may look at tall and mighty in awe, but we love the grounded. This surely is true for the most popular health plant in the current times.…
Eleven Herbs from High hills in postage stamps
Index Home I grew up in the Himalayas, highest hills in the world. Like all children, we would walk down to the school or run up and down the hills to…
Plant remedies for health in Indian stamps
Index Home Plants are ancient. Evolution of plants began about 400 million years ago. Humans arrived much later on the scene, only about 4-million years ago. Beginning of agriculture and first…
Medicinal plants: herbs for health
Index Home Drug formulary of most traditional systems of medicine is based on plants. Human beings have always had plants as their companion. Tiny, small, large or gigantic; versatility in…