MEDICINAL
PLANTS IN PEACEFUL SOCIETY
Among
the aims and objects of Peaceful Society is preservation of bio-diversity,
Medicinal Plants are an important species, which help preserve bio-diversity.
Besides, they form the foundation of traditional medicine, which is the answer
to monopoly of multi-national companies, which is being strengthened in today’s
economic policy of globalisation and Marketisation.
Botany
students of Goa University colleges have found 40 species of medicinal plants
in the campus. These include:-
1. Adulsa : Its
leaves, roots and flowers are used against bronchitis, leprosy, asthma,
rheumatism, jaundice, diarrhoea and dysentery.
2. Korpad : Its
leaves are a powerful purgative. It is also to treat enlargement of the liver
and spleen, jaundice and rheumatism.
3. Oil
Kiryata : Useful
against fever, dysentery among others.
4. Nimba : Useful
against fevers especially Malaria.
5. Rui : Useful
against skin diseases. Also used against elephantiasis and postnatal care.
6. Brahmi : Brain
tonic and is also used against TB.
7. Halad :
Useful against leucoderma, scabies,urinary discharges, inflammation, snake
bites, small pox, jaundice, ringworm and gonorrhoea among others.
8. Bhirand : Useful
against dysentery, diarrhoea, among others.
9. Chuvra : Heals
wounds, cures throat complaints among others.
10. Kapura
Kachari : Useful
against asthma, bronchitis, liver complaints, diarrhoea among others.
11. Anantmoola : Used in
treatment of leucorroea, syphilis, rheumatism, scorpion sting and snake bites
among others.
12. Jaasvanda : Flowers
are used for bronchia treatment.
13. Kudaa : Used
against diarrhoea, constipation, anaemia and jaundice among others.
14. Pendgul : Used
against bronchitis, ulcers, and dysentery among others
15. Mendi : Used
against jaundice, enlargement of the spleen, typhoid among others.
16. Karkani : Used
against diarrhoea, dysentery and vertigo among others.
17. 
Thumbo : Used
for skin eruptions, chronic rheumatism, gonorrhoea among others.
18. Sonchampha : Used against
chronic rheumatism among others.
19. Lajalu :Used
against urinary complaints, sinus, piles and scorpion sting amongst others.
20. Bakul : Used
against snakebites, chronic dysentery among others
21. Karle : Used
haemorrhoids, piles, jaundice, contraception and high blood sugar among others
22. Shevgachya
Shenga :Used against paralytic conditions, rheumatism,
and diseases of the river and spleen among others.
23. Kuchili : Used
against cholera, dropsy and elephantiasis among others.
24. Kadu
Limba : Used
against skin eruptions, dysentery among others
25. Bananas : Used
against epilepsy, hysteria dysentery and diarrhoea
26. Kanner : Cardiac
tonic. Used against dysentery, asthma and bronchitis among others.
27. Kuhsursali : It is an
expectorant. Used in treatment of cancer, ulcers, dysentery and bites of wild
animals
28. Tulasa : It
is an expectorant. Used against Malarial fever, dropsy etc.
29. Bhuivali : It
is anti-septic . Used against colic, diarrhoea and dysentery among others.
30. Kali
Miri : Used
against sore throat and scorpion sting among others
31. Khair
Champha : Used
against gonorrhea and diarrhoea among others
32. Sarpagandha : Used against
chronic mental illness, high blood pressure among others.
33. Erandel : It is a purgative
34. Karo : Used
to improve blood pressure
35. Jambhul : Used
to control diabetes. Used against asthma, bronchitis among others,
36. Chinch : It
is a laxative
37. Gulvel : It
is a tonic. It used against diarrhoea and dysentery
38. Sadaphuli : It
is used to control diabetes. It may be useful in leukaemia
39. Nigund : Promotes
growth of hair, useful diseases of the eye, asthma, luccoderma
40.
Bora :
It is a tonic and a laxative among other things
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