Lovely Shots Sir, really picture of the year!!!! On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Two years back I had uploaded an insignificant flower of Bauhinia > roxburghiana that looked great after close up was seen under magnification. > This year while waiting for Cable car tickets at Gulmarg I strolled into > the forest to find an interesting looking, though not very attractive > plant, that I knew was Aconitum. Only after I sat to process my photographs > and I identified it that I was impressed by great architecture of its dull > looking flowers, and subsequently identified it as Aconitum heterophyllum > Wall. ex Royle, the Atis Root plant and a very important medicinal plant. > Roots yield a number of alkaloids such as atisine, heteratisine, > histisine, heterophyllisine, heterophylline, heterophyllidine, atidine, > hetidine, benzotheteratisine, F-dihydroatisine, and hetisinone. Plant is > considered as valuable febrifuge and bitter tonic. Roots are also used for > hysteria, throat infections, dyspepsia and vomiting, abdominal pain and > diabetes. > It purifies blood and also acts as anti-inflammatory agent. It decreases > fever and also cures malarial fever. > > I am uploading two photographs of this useful plant. > > -- > 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/ > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
