Wonderful snaps, Singh ji. On 1 January 2012 22:29, 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/ > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1760 members & 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
