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CASTOR |
Botanical Name : RICINUS COMMUNIS
Family Name : EUPHORBIACEAE
Common Name : CASTOR, PALMA CHRISTI, RICIN, WONDER TREE, KRAPATA, DJARAK, REER
Part Used : Castor leaves, castor seeds, castor roots, Castor oil
Habitat : Common in distributed areas and waste land |
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Uses : Castor leaves are used externally by nursing mothers to increase the flow of milk. Castor Oil is a natural emollient and can be applied to the skin and hair as a softener. Juice from the leaves of the Castor plant is used against rheumatism, headache, dropsy (edema), abscesses, ringworms, and warts.Castor Oil is used for temporary constipation, but is not effective for chronic constipation. It has also been used for colic and acute diarrhea due to slow digestion. Castor Oil can support labor and delivery. Externally Castor Oil is used to treat ringworm and itch.
Castor oil is commonly used for the preparation of hair-oils, hair fixers and aromatic perfumes. It is used as an ingredient in hair lotions and tonics in concentrations of 0.5-20 per cent.
Parts offered : Castor leaves, castor seeds, castor roots, Castor oil |
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CARICA PAPAYA |
Botanical name : CARICA PAPAYA
Common name : PAPAYA, PAW PAW, KATES, PAPAW
Family name : CARICACEAE
Part Used : Leaves, fruits, roots
Habitat :Through out India |
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Uses :Carica papaya contains an enzyme known as papain, present in the fruit, stem and leaves.The milky juice is extracted, dried and used as chewing gum, medicine (digestion problems), toothpaste and meat tenderizers. (Meat can be tenderized by wrapping it in a bruised papaya leaf before it is cooked).Carica papaya contains many biologically active compounds. Two important compounds are chymopapain and papain, which are supposed to aid in digestion. Papain also is used to treat arthritis. The level of the compounds vary in the fruit, latex, leaves, and roots. Papaya has been used for digestive problems and intestinal worms.The softening and disintegrating qualities of papain (generally in alkaline combination, as with borax or potassium carbonate), have been taken advantage of in the treatment of warts, corns, sinuses, and chronic forms of scaly eczema, cutaneous tubercles, and other hardness of the skin, produced by irritation, etc., and injected into indolent glandular tumors to promote their absorption
Product offered : papaya Leaves, papaya fruits, papaya roots |
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CELOSIA CRISTATA |
Botanical Name : CELOSIA CRISTATA
Family Name : AMARANTHACEAE
Common Name : COCKSCOMB, YELLOW TOREADOR, RED COCKSCOMB, FOXTAIL AMARANTH, CRESTED CELOSIA, FIRE-FLAME BUSH, SHINAJI TEA, WOODFORDIA.
Part Used : Flowers
Habitat : Throughout India but abundantly found in North India upto 1600 m. |
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Uses : The flowers are acrid, astringent, styptic, depurative, utreine sadative, constipating, antibacterial, corrective of urinary pigments, febrifuge and alexeteric. They are useful in the conditions of kapha and pitta, leprosy, burning sensation, skin diseases, diarrhoea, dysentery, fever, headache, hemorrhoids, herpes, internal hemorrhage, leukorrhea, liver disorders, menorrhagia, ulcers, wounds. Juice of leaves are used in bilious sickness. They are also valued as a stimulant in pregnancy.
Parts Offered : Celosia whole plant, Celosia flowers |
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