Wowow! What a lot of medicinal news! & it is all true. I have tried most of the spices & plants according to my granny's instructions which was a long time ago, but still remember & use some of them now. She believed in & used all the various spices & plants. Neem leaves, aloe vera, ginger juice, jeera & rice etc. etc. all have medicinal properties... & way back in my 20's when I shouldnt have suffered from acne but did & had a severe attack, I used chandrikar soap for face & every morning used to make a paste of gramflour & turmeric mixed with a little water, applied on the face & washed it off once dried. All the acne disappeared & no scars remained. So for those of you whose teenage kids suffer from acne, try this instead of all the ointments & lotions & potions which just aggravate the problem. Unless of course the acne is so severe that one needs a course of antibiotics. I can also vouch for the perpetua flowers & methi seeds powder reducing sugar in blood since my diabetic friends use the same. Another one is the karela vegetable, Wash one or two Karelas, scrape off a little of the carbuncles from the outer part of the vegetable, cut the veg. into small pieces & make a Karela-shake using a little water in the mixer - not very tasty, but brings down the sugar very quickly. & for those of you who want to try & bring down your cholestrol & tryglycerides levels, eat about 5-6 walnuts a day or just grind them to a powder & mix that with your breakfast every morning. It is now better to get down to our "roots" & plants to get well rather than use all the tablets prescribed for every ailment which have a no. of side effects leading to our ingesting some more tablets for those other ailments that crop up. For an itchy throat & cough at night, if one wants to sleep well, then use the syrup called Prospan which has Ivy leaf extract in it. & dont forget to do a few yoga exercises especially the deep breathing one which helps one get rid of the toxins & keeps one healthy & "de-stressed". Guess one could go on & on but this Net will turn into a "Botanical" Net. Rico you started this by asking the question & I guess it is Saligao-related as all these plants & spices are found in the homes or gardens of Saliganvkars. So hereafter, do contact Albert personally by email & you can be sure he will give you the right info. Ta ra Annette PS: I've just had my lovely cuppa of Green Tea (mint flavour) - good for health!!! > From: [email protected]> To: [email protected]> Subject: > [SALIGAONET] Re: Medicinal plants...> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 17:08:59 +0000> > > > > Dear Rico> There are many medicinal plants.1. Ginger. Take a piece of > ginger and smash it on the grinding stone and add tulsi leaves to around 4 > glasses of water and boil. Cool and drink it.> 2. Kante kor. it has thick > leaves resembling opuntia. Boil a piece of this leave in hot ashes and tie it > warm on any part full of pus and is painful,> 3. Gon-gen. It is a sort of > bush like. Dry theleaves and mix it with tea leaves and drink it along with > tea. Prevents or removes all cold from your body.> 3 Tumeric.- a good > antiseptic. When you have a wound or bleeding wound put tumeric powder on it. > > 4. Honey with cinnamon powder- half teaspoon early morning can cure > diabetes.> 5. Neem is a very good plant.> 6. In case of mums.- Take datura > leaves grind it and put it on the part where there are mums. Remember that > datura is a poisonous plant. The fruit contains daturine which is an > alkoloid,> The flower of datura when fried on the tawa and smelt only -it > relieves astma attack. Again while frying care should be taken not to use > tawa meant to fry food materials as the flower is poisonous. > Methi- powder > methi seeds and if taken half teaspoon before breakfast by sucking the powder > little by little reduces diabetes.> Albert de Souza > > > ----------------------------------------> > Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 21:18:55 > +0530> > Subject: [SALIGAONET] Medicinal plants...> > From: > [email protected]> > To: [email protected]> >> >> > > Recently, when battling chicken-pox, we managed to find some neem> > plants > in the vaddo. It was helpful. Does anyone know of any other> > medicinal > plants that exist around Saligao? 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