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Timur / Toothache tree
Scientific Name:
Zanthoxylum armatum
Distinguishing Characters:
Short, leaves are usually pinnate, leaflet 2-6 pairs, petiolate and rachis winged. Flowers yellow in color, fruits ovoid, pale red, seeds oval and dark.
Description:

Parts used: Bark,carpels, carpels of fruits, seeds

Medicinal use: Carminative, stomachache, anti rheumatic, tonic, hepatitis.

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White turmeric
Scientific Name:
Curcuma zedoaria
Family:
Zingiberaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
It has spots such as bulbs and tubers. Ginger has a creamy color to light yellow. The smell of fresh white turmeric is almost like a mango kweni.
Description:

Parts used: Rhizome

Medicinal use: Inhibit cancer cell growth, anti itching, antipyretics, useful as antidote, laxative

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Thulo okhati / Budo okhati
Scientific Name:
Astilbe rivularis
Family:
Saxifragaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
They are rhizomatous flowering plant, large, fern like foliage and dense feathery plumes of flowers.
Description:

Parts used: Rhizome

Medicinal uses: Used as tonic, powder of rhizome are administered during pre and post pregnancy period.

Rosemary
Scientific Name:
Rosmarinus officinalis
Family:
Lami
Distinguishing Characters:
Woody, perrenial herb, needle like leaves, white, pink, purple, blue flowers.
Description:

Parts used: Leaves, twigs, flowering apices.

Medicinal uses: For muscle pain, improve memory, to boost immune, circulatory system, promote hair growth.

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Yarsa Gumba
Scientific Name:
Cordyceps sinensis
Family:
Claviciptaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
It is an unique caterpillar-fungus fusion.
Description:

Parts used: whole plant

Medicinal uses: Tonic aphrodisiac, cardiactonics, expectorant, hypertension,acute and chronic hepatitis.

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Basil
Scientific Name:
Ocimum basilicum
Family:
Lamiaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
They have shiny, oval leaves,stems are tough and square in profile, produce spikes of white flowers.
Description:

parts used: Stem, leaves

Medicinal uses: Fix stomach spasms, loss of appetite, intestinal gas, kidney condition, head cold, warts. Also has aromatic uses.

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Bihi, Quince
Scientific Name:
Cydonia oblonga
Family:
Rosaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Its seed contain 20% mucilage, 15% fatty oils; it is a pome fruit with bright golden yellow when mature.
Description:

Parts used: Fruit, seeds, bark

Medicinal use: Bark used as astringent, treatment of ulcers, laxative.

 

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Vyakur / Kukurtarul / Gittha
Scientific Name:
Dioscorea bulbifera
Family:
Dioscoreaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
These are perennial vines. Petioled leaves, heart shaped, flowers arise from nodes in clusters, green yellow in color.
Description:

Parts used: Tuber, fruit

Uses: used in hemoptysis, epitaxis, pharyngitis, goitre, sprains and injuries.

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Buddha Chitta
Scientific Name:
Ziziphus budhensis
Family:
Rhamnacecae
Distinguishing Characters:
The tree grows very long, it is dimorphic.
the seeds are light brown skin in colour and have grip like texture.
Description:

Parts used: Seed, leaves

Uses: Buddha chitta is used to make people happy to protect people from suffering and diseases.

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Ginger
Scientific Name:
Zingiber officinale
Family:
Zingiberaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Rhizome of distinct smell and leaves of soothing odour.
Description:

Parts used: rhizome

Uses: Flavoring agent

 

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Bhut kesh
Scientific Name:
Selinum tenuifolium
Family:
Lamiaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The delicate basal leaves are thin (hence the specific name tenuifolium - 'thin-leaved') and finely divided, giving them a fern-like appearance.
Description:

parts used: Leaves and fruits

uses: Aromatic leaves and carminative

 

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Siltimbur
Scientific Name:
Lindera neesiana
Family:
Lauraceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The flowers are from greenish to white, greenish-yellow, or yellowish, with six tepals arranged in a star shape.
Lindera fruit have a hypocarpium at the base of the fruit, which in some cases forms cup that encloses the bottom part of the fruit.
The fruit is a small red, purple or black drupe containing a single seed, dispersed mostly by birds.
Many species reproduce vegetatively by stolons.
Description:

parts used: bark and fruits

Uses: Aromatic and carminative

Urila
Scientific Name:
Hypericum patulum
Family:
Hypericeae
Distinguishing Characters:
Large yellow flowers
Description:

parts used:Seeds

Uses: Seeds as aromatic agent and stimulant

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Sounp
Scientific Name:
Foeniculum vulgarae
Family:
Apiaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
It is a highly aromatic and flavorful herb with culinary and medicinal uses and, along with the similar-tasting anise, is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe.

Florence fennel or finocchio is a selection with a swollen, bulb-like stem base that is used as a vegetable.
Description:

Parts used: Leaves, tender shoots, fruits

Uses: Used as a flavoring agent in foods, curries and salads

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Tarragon
Scientific Name:
Artemesia dracunculus
Family:
Asteraceae
Distinguishing Characters:
French tarragon is the variety used for cooking in the kitchen and is not grown from seed, as the flowers are sterile; instead it is propagated by root division.
Description:

parts used: frozen, dry or fresh leaves

uses: flavor similar to anise and used for bringing soothing smell to culinary purposes.

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Dill
Scientific Name:
Anethum graveolens
Family:
Apiaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The seeds are 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and 1 mm (0.04 in) thick, and straight to slightly curved with a longitudinally ridged surface.
Description:

parts used: dry and fresh leaves, seeds and stems

uses: flavor similar to fennel used in culinary purpose for brining distinct aroma

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Coriander
Scientific Name:
Coriandrum sativum
Family:
Apiaceaea
Distinguishing Characters:
Most people perceive the taste of coriander leaves as a tart, lemon/lime taste, but a smaller group, of about 4–14% of people tested, think the leaves taste like bath soap, as linked to a gene which detects aldehyde chemicals also present in soap
Description:

parts used: ground seeds and fresh leaves

uses: aroma in culinary purposes, waxy and somewhat orange complex

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Cloves
Scientific Name:
Cariophylus aromaticus
Family:
Lauraceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The flower buds initially have a pale hue, gradually turn green, then transition to a bright red when ready for harvest.
Description:

parts used: immature flower

uses: intense aroma and flavor in foods

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Onion
Scientific Name:
Allium cepa
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Sulpur containing compounds make the bulb pungent upon cutting.
Pink or white bulbed leaf stalk smell is some what soothing.
Description:

parts used: bulbs and shoots

Uses: sharp flavor in culinary purposes

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Saffron
Scientific Name:
Crocus sativus
Family:
Iridiaceaea
Distinguishing Characters:
The vivid crimson stigmas and styles, called threads, are collected and dried to be used mainly as a seasoning and colouring agent in food.
Description:

parts used: stigmata

uses: aroma strong and sweet flavor, colouring yellow

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Anise
Scientific Name:
Pimpinella anisum
Family:
Apiaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Its flavor has similarities with some other spices, such as star anise, fennel, and liquorice.
Description:

parts used: fruits and fresh leaves

Uses: for aromatic and sweet flavor

 

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Garlic
Scientific Name:
Allium sativum
Family:
Amaryllidaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Cloves of distinct odour and the leafy stalk also of distinct smell.
Description:

Parts used: fresh or dry bulb and dehydrated shoots

Uses: For sharp flavor and intense aroma

           Used for treating gastritis. 

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Kantakari
Scientific Name:
Solanum xanthocarpum
Family:
Solanaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
sharp and prickly branches that are densely covered with rather minute star shaped hair.

Yellow colored spiny prickles, sparsely hairy egg shaped leaves.

Purple colored flower and round fruits.
Description:

Parts used:Whole plant, fruit and seeds

medicinal use: diuretic, inflammatory, appetiser, stomachic

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Dal Cheeni
Scientific Name:
Cinnamomum zeylancium
Family:
Lauraceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The plant leaves bear unique venation, a parallel one.

The bark tastes somewhat sweet.
Description:

parts used: bark and oil

medicinal uses: bronchitis, asthma, cardiac, disorder, fever

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Neem
Scientific Name:
Azadirachta indica
Family:
Meliaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The leaves when tasted produces thrilling amusement and with a thrilling smell as well.
Description:

parts used: Rhizome and leaves

medicinal use: sedative, analgesic, epilepsy and hypersensitivity

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Barro
Scientific Name:
Terminalia bellerica
Family:
Combretaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Terminalia bellirica, known as bahera or beleric or bastard myrobalan.

This tree, in Sanskrit Vibhita and Vibhitaka (fearless), is avoided by the Hindus of Northern India, who will not sit in its shade, as it is supposed to be inhabited by demons.
Description:

parts used: seeds, bark

medicinal uses: Cough, insomnia, dropsy, vomiting, ulcer and used as Trifala

 

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Harro
Scientific Name:
Terminalia chebula
Family:
Combretaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Terminalia chebula, commonly known as black- or chebulic myrobalan.

The dull white to yellow flowers are monoecious, and have a strong, unpleasant odour.

The fruits are smooth ellipsoid to ovoid drupes, yellow to orange-brown in colour, with a single angled stone.
Description:

parts used: Seeds

medicinal (other) uses: (Trifala) wound ulcer, leprosy, inflammation and cough.

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Periwinkle (Sadhabahar)
Scientific Name:
Catharanthus roseus
Family:
Apocynaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Periwinkle is a color in the blue and violet family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb (Vinca minor) which bears flowers of the same color.

The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue.

The color periwinkle may be considered a pale tint of blue or a "pastel blue".
Description:

parts used: Whole plant

medicinal use: Leukemia, hypotensive, antipasmodic and antidote.

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Ghiukumari
Scientific Name:
Aloe vera
Family:
Liliaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The leaves are thick and fleshy, green to grey-green, with some varieties showing white flecks on their upper and lower stem surfaces.

The margin of the leaf is serrated and has small white teeth.
Description:

parts used: Leaves

Medicinal use: Laxative, wound healing, skinburns and skincare, Ulcer

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Peppermint
Scientific Name:
Mentha piperita
Family:
Myrsinaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Peppermint (Mentha × piperita, also known as Mentha balsamea Wild.) is a hybrid mint, a cross between watermint and spearmint.

The leaves are dark green with reddish veins, and they have an acute apex and coarsely toothed margins. The leaves and stems are usually slightly fuzzy.
Description:

parts used:leaves, flowers and oil extract

medicinal use: digestive, pain killer

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Vai vidanka
Scientific Name:
Embelia ribes
Family:
Myrsinaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Embelia ribes, commonly known as false black pepper.

Description:

Parts used: Root, fruit and leaves

Medicinal Use: Skin disease, Snake bite and helminthiasis

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Tulsi
Scientific Name:
Ocimum sanctum
Family:
Lamiaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Soothing smell from the leaves.

Purplish flowers are also distinct.
Description:

parts used: Leaves and seeds

Medicinal use: cough, cold, bronchitis and expectorand

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Senna
Scientific Name:
Cassia augustifolia
Family:
Liliaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Historically, Senna was used in the form of senna pods, or as herbal tea made from the leaves, as a laxative.

It also serves as a fungicide.
Description:

parts used: dry tubers

medicinal use: Rheumatism, general debility, tonic and aphrodisiac

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Kurilo
Scientific Name:
Asparagus racemosus
Family:
Liliaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Kurilo has small pine-needle-like phylloclades (photosynthetic branches) that are uniform and shiny green.

Description:

Parts used: tuber, root

medicinal use: enhance lactation, general weakness, fatigue and cough

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Sarpagandha
Scientific Name:
Rauwolfia serpentine
Family:
Apocynaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Rauvolfia serpentina The plant contains 200 alkaloids of the indole alkaloid family.

The major alkaloids are ajmaline, ajmalicine, ajmalimine, deserpidine, indobine, indobinine, reserpine, reserpiline, rescinnamine, rescinnamidine, serpentine, serpentinine and yohimbine.
Description:

parts used: root

medicinal use: hypertension and insomnia

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Sandal wood
Scientific Name:
Santalum album
Family:
Santaliaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The ISO Standard for the accepted characteristics of this essential oil from the extract of heartwood is ISO 3518:2002.
Description:

parts used: heartwood oil

medicinal use: Skin disorder, burning senastion, jaundice and cough

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Pathar Chur/ Pashan Bheda
Scientific Name:
Coleus barbatus
Family:
Lamiaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
It produces forskolin

Forskolin; an extract useful for pharmaceutical preparations and research in cell biology.
Description:

parts used: root

medicinal use: kidney stone and calculus

 

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Makoi
Scientific Name:
Solanum nigrum
Family:
Solanaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Sometimes S. nigrum is confused for the more toxic deadly nightshade

A comparison of the fruit shows that the black nightshade berries grow in bunches, the deadly nightshade berries grow individually.
Description:

parts used: fruit/ whole plant

medicinal use: dropsy, general debility, diuretic and anti dysenteric

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Long pepper/ Pipali
Scientific Name:
Piper longum
Family:
Piperaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The fruit of the pepper consists of many minuscule fruits – each about the size of a poppy seed – embedded in the surface of a flower spike that closely resembles a hazel tree catkin.

Like Piper nigrum, the fruits contain the alkaloid piperine, which contributes to their pungency.
Description:

parts used: fruit, root

medicinal use: appetiser, enlarged spleen, bronchitis, cold and antidote

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Kalmegh/ bhui neem
Scientific Name:
Andrographis paniculata
Family:
Scanthaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The slender stem is dark green, squared in cross-section with longitudinal furrows and wings along the angles.

The lance-shaped leaves have hairless blades measuring up to 8 cm (3.1 in) long by 2.5 cm (0.98 in).

The small flowers are borne in spreading racemes.
Description:

parts used: whole plant

medicinal use: fever, weaknes, release of gas

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Calihari
Scientific Name:
Gloriosa superba
Family:
Liliaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
This plant is poisonous, toxic enough to cause human and animal fatalities if ingested.

It has been used to commit murder, to achieve suicide, and to kill animals.

Every part of the plant is poisonous, especially the tuberous rhizomes.
Description:

parts used: Seed, tuber

medicinal use: skin disease, labour pain, abortion and general debility

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Giloe
Scientific Name:
Tinospora cordifolia
Family:
Menispermaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
characterised by their distinct heart shaped leaves:
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, long petioles up to 15 cm long, roundish, pulvinate, both at the base and apex with the basal one longer and twisted partially and half way around.

Lamina broadly ovate or ovate cordate, 10–20 cm long or 8– 15 cm broad, 7 nerved and deeply cordate at base, membranous, pubescent above, whitish tomentose with a prominent reticulum beneath.
Description:

parts used: Stem

Medicinal use: Gout, piles, general debility, fever and jaundice

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Guggul
Scientific Name:
Commiphora wighti
Family:
Burseraceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Commiphora wightii is sought for its gummy resin, which is harvested from the plant's bark through the process of tapping.
Description:

parts used: gum, resin

medicinal use: rheumatic disease, arthritis, paralysis and a laxative

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Gudmar/ Madhunasini
Scientific Name:
Gymnema sylvestre
Family:
Asclepediaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The leaves and extracts contain gymnemic acids.
The major bioactive constituents that interact with taste receptors on the tongue to temporarily suppress the taste of sweetness.
Description:

parts used: Leaves

medicinal uses: diabetes, hydrocoel and asthma

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Brahmi/ Water hyssop
Scientific Name:
Bacopa sps
Family:
Scrophulariaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
flowers are in the shades of white, pink, lavender, blue and even coral red.

Cultivar 'Giant Snowflake' is known for giant white flowers.
Description:

Parts used: whole plant

medicinal use: nervous, memory enhancer and mental disorder treatment

 

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Chiraitho
Scientific Name:
Swertia chirayita
Family:
Gentianaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Swertia is a genus in the gentian family containing plants sometimes referred to as the felworts.

Some species bear very showy purple and blue flowers
Description:

parts used: Whole plant

medicinal use:skin disease, burning sensation and fever

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Bhui amala
Scientific Name:
Phyllanthous amarus
Family:
Euphorbiaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
Phytochemical studies have shown the presence of many valuable compounds such as lignans, flavonoids, hydrolysable tannins (ellagitannins), polyphenols, triterpenes, sterols and alkaloids.
Description:

Parts used: Whole plant

Medicinal use: Anaemic, jaundice and dropsy

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Bael
Scientific Name:
Aegle marmelos
Family:
Rutaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
It is globose or slightly pear-shaped with a thick, hard rind and does not split upon ripening.

The woody shell is smooth and green, gray until it is fully ripe when it turns yellow.

Inside are 8 to 15 or 20 sections filled with aromatic orange pulp, each section with 6 (8) to 10 (15) flattened-oblong seeds each about 1 cm long, bearing woolly hairs and each enclosed in a sac of adhesive, transparent mucilage that solidifies on drying.
Description:

parts used: fruit and bark

medicinal uses: diarrhoea, dysentery and constipation

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Ashwagandha
Scientific Name:
Withania somnifera
Family:
Solanaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The flowers are small, green and bell-shaped. The ripe fruit is orange-red.
The name, ashwagandha, is a combination of the word ashva, meaning horse, and gandha, meaning smell.

Reflecting that the root has a strong horse-like odor.
Description:

parts used: roots and leaves

medicinal use: restorative tonic, stress, nerves disorder and aphrodisiac

 

 

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Ashok
Scientific Name:
Saraca asoca
Family:
Caesalpiniaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The ashoka is prized for its beautiful foliage and fragrant flowers.

It is a handsome, small, erect evergreen tree, with deep green leaves growing in dense clusters.

Biologically, some of the flower's characteristics are very dry and abundant.

This means that the flower is coated with a chemical on the outside
Description:

parts used: bark, flower

medicinal use: menstrual pain, uterine disorder and diabetes

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Amla
Scientific Name:
Emblica officinalis
Family:
Euphorbiaceae
Distinguishing Characters:
The fruit is nearly spherical, light greenish yellow, quite smooth and hard on appearance, with six vertical stripes or furrows.

The taste of Emblica is sour, bitter and astringent, and it is quite fibrous
Description:

Parts Used: Fruit

Medicinal use: Vitamin - C, Cough , Diabetes, cold, Laxative, hyper acidity.

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