Herbal Garden Details

1. Karingali

Scientific Name : Acacia catechu

Common Name: Karingali

Medicinal Properties:

• The tree’s seeds are a good source of protein.
• The extract of the plant called catechu is used to treat sore throats and diarrhea.
• In Ayurveda, plant pacifies vitiated pitta, kapha, skin diseases, cough, pruritus, and obesity.
• Useful in tooth ache, increases the strength of teeth.

Useful Parts : Bark, Heartwood,

2.Vayambu

Scientific Name: Acorus calamus

Common Name: Vayambu

Medicinal Properties:

• It is widely employed in modern herbal medicine as an aromatic stimulant and mild tonic. The root has been used as a rejuvenator for the brain and nervous system and as a remedy for digestive disorders.
• It is used internally in the treatment of digestive complaints, bronchitis, sinusitis etc.
• In Ayurveda, plant pacifies vitiated vata, kapha, insomnia, insanity,cough, inflammation, arthritis, kidney diseases, hemorrhoids, skin diseases and general debility.

Useful Parts: Underground rhizomes.

3. Adalodakam

Scientific Name: Adathoda beddomei

Common Name: Adalodakam 

Medicinal Properties:

• The extraction of leaf is a good medicine for Asthma and cough.
• It is a good medicine to stop internal and external bleedings like bleeding gums, piles and peptic ulcers.
• According to Ayurveda, it is a good ingredient in decoctions for all types of fever due to kapha and pitta doshas.
• It is expectorant, antispasmodic and good blood purifier.
• It speeds up the child birth.

Useful Part: Whole plant.

4.Koovalam

Scientific Name: Aegle marmelos

Common Name: Koovalam

Medicinal Properties:

• The tree is one of the most useful medicinal plants of India.
• All parts of this tree-stem, bark, root, leaves and fruit at all stages of maturity have medicinal virtues and have been used as medicine for a long time.
• The fruit is aromatic, cooling and laxative.
• It arrests secretion or bleeding.
• The unripe or half-ripe fruit is good for digestion. It is useful in preventing or curing scurvy.
• It also strengthens the stomach and promotes its action.
• In Ayurveda, plant pacifies vitiated kapha, vata, body pain, poison, diarrhea, dysentery, vomiting, and intermittent fever.
• Pulp of unripe fruit is constipating whereas that of ripened fruit is laxative.
• Leaves cure diabetes, cough, inflammation and asthma.

Useful Parts: Leaves, Root, Fruits

5. Kolinji

Scientific Name: Alpinia galangal

Common Name: Kolinji

Medicinal Properties:

• It is used against rheumatism, bronchial catarrh, bad breath and ulcers whooping colds in children, throat infections, to control incontinence and fever.
• It is a stimulating aromatic and has been successfully employed to aid the digestive process, preventing fermentation and removing flatus.
• It is useful in case of dyspepsia, preventing vomiting or sickness of the stomach and facilitating digestion.
• It may be used in all cases in which a stimulating aromatic is indicated.
• It also possesses tonic and antibacterial qualities and is used for these properties in veterinary and homeopathic medicine.

Useful Parts: Roots

6.Karimthumba

Scientific Name: Anisochilus carnosus

Common Name: Karimthumba

Medicinal Properties:

• The leaves of Anisochilus carnosus are used traditionally in the treatment of gastric ulcers and stomachache.

Useful Parts: Leaves and aerial parts

7.Chemmaram

Scientific Name: Aphanamixis polystachya

Common Name: Chemmaram

Medicinal Properties:

• The plant specially the bark is used as astringent and applied on swelling after a fall.
• It is also used in spleen, liver diseases, tumour and abdominal complaints.
• Seed-oil is used in rheumatism.
• In recent times anti carcinogenic ingredients are found from this plant.

Useful Part:

• Bark

8. Karalakam

Scientific Name: Aristolochia indica

Common Name: Karalakam

Medicinal Properties:

• In Ayurveda, plant pacifies vitiated kapha, vata, poison, skin diseases, intestinal worms,
  colic, arthritis and ulcers.

Useful Part:

• Whole plant.

9.Sathavari

Scientific Name: Asparagus racemosus
Common Name: Sathavari

Medicinal Properties:

• It helps to balance hormonal system of women and regulates menstruation and ovulation.
• It is also useful for decreasing morning sickness, infertility, menopause, leucorrhoea,
  inflammation of sexual organs, and general sexual debility.
•  The male reproductive system will also benefit from sathavari. It can be used in cases of
  sexual debility, impotence, spermatorrhoea, and inflammation of sexual organs.
•  The powdered dried root of sathavari is also used in Ayurveda for dyspepsia.
• The herb is also useful in gastric ulcers, hyperacidity, dysentery, bladder infections,
  chronic fevers, rheumatism, inflamed membranes of the lungs.
•  It also used as a nervine tonic and is good for heart.
• It also strengthens and increases muscle tone and increases general body strength and
  used as an Aphrodisiac in India.

Useful Part:

• Tuberous Roots

10.Kanikonna

Scientific Name: Cassia fistula
Common Name: Kanikonna

Medicinal Properties:

• Ayurvedic medicine, it is known as aragvadha, meaning “disease killer”.
• Its fruit pulp is used as a mild laxative, against fevers, arthritis, vatavyadhi (nervous system
  diseases), all kinds of rakta-pitta (bleeding, such as hematemesis or hemorrhages), as well
  as cardiac conditions and stomach problems such as acid reflux.
• The root is considered a very strong purgative, and self-medication

Useful Part:

• Whole Plant

11.Maramanjal

Scientific Name: Coscinium fenestratum
Common Name: Maramanjal

Medicinal Properties:

• Eye and skin diseases, inflammation, wounds, ulcers, abdominal disorders,
  jaundice, diabetes, fever, general debility, skeletal fractures.
• In Ayurvedic medicine, plant pacifies vitiated kapha, vata, skin diseases, diseases
  of the eye, inflammations, wounds, jaundice, diabetes, fever and general debility.

Useful Part:

• Stem.

12.Neermathalam

Scientific Name: Crateva magna
Common Name: Neermathalam

Medicinal Properties:

• Roots, leaves and the skin of the bark are used for edema, cervical adenitis, rheumatism
  and spleen enlargement.
• The bark acts as an appetizer, cholegogue, laxative, vermicide, tonic, anti-inflammatory
  and its decoction is taken internally for the same diseases above, plus tumors, liver
  disorders, anorexia, fever and also mixed with ghee for flatulence.
• In Ayurvedic medicine, plant pacifies vitiated vata, kapha, renal and vesical caliculi,
  asthma and bronchitis.

Useful Parts:

• Leaves, Bark