Some tribes use these jobs tears for adornment..necklaces in particular, they eat it and most fun is its brewed into a country / tribal liquor... which sounds like ZUUU ...
and in a weekend course on biblical plants it was mentioned that in china and Japan and may be even India.. the grain (its after all of a grass family, if I remember it) the seeds are ground up and used as flour... rich in protein and some micro nutrients (dont ask me which ones, I dont remember) ... Job's tears are quite a group of grains... best use I like is the beads use and :) the country liquor, ha ha... MOST IMPORTANT IS ITS Ant-iangiogenesis effect and overall anti cancer activity was being studies as Kanglaite... Usha di === PS I just looked it up... it is still being studied in end stage Lung, liver , GI and Pancreatic cancers in USA, no results were yet available as of November this year... usha di =============== On Dec 21, 10:19 am, prasad dash <[email protected]> wrote: > Many thanks Gurcharan sir, Pankaj Ji and Tanay Ji for appreciation. > > Regards > > prasad > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Tanay Bose <[email protected]> wrote: > > Awesome set Prasad Ji > > Tanay > > > On 20 December 2011 05:07, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It is Vagbhata's snake booti mentioned in ancient literature. Still holds > >> reputed position among snake charmers as well as Traditional Snake Experts > >> like Ganesh. > > >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djRHKtmqUDU > > >> regards > > >> Pankaj Oudhia > > >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>> Another nice series Prasad ji > > >>> Thanks for sharing > > >>> -- > >>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh > >>> Retired Associate Professor > >>> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > >>> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > >>> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > >>>http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > >>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:01 PM, prasad dash > >>> <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>>> Dear members sharing the images of Coix lacryma-jobi var gigantea taken > >>>> from Ranpur > > >>>> Name of the species: *Coix lacryma-jobi var gigantea* > >>>> Family: Poaceae > >>>> Place of collection: Ranpur, Nayagarh, Odisha > >>>> Habit: Herb > >>>> Habitat: Rice fields > > >>>> Regards > > >>>> prasad > > >>>> -- > >>>> Prasad Kumar Dash > >>>> Ecologist, Orissa, India > >>>> email: [email protected] > >>>> ph. 09437444241 > > > -- > > *Tanay Bose* > > Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. > > Department of Botany. > > University of British Columbia . > > 3529-6270 University Blvd. > > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > > Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) > > 604-822-2019 (Lab) > > 604-822-6089 (Fax) > > [email protected] > > *Webpages:* > >http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html > >http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html > >https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Orissa, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241
