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Herbals

Herbalism is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also known as botanical medicine, medical herbalism, herbal medicine, herbology, and phytotherapy. The scope of herbal medicine is sometimes extended to include fungal and bee products, as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts.

Many plants synthesize substances that are useful to the maintenance of health in humans and other animals. These include aromatic substances, most of which are phenols or their oxygen-substituted derivatives such as tannins. Many are secondary metabolites, of which at least 12,000 have been isolated — a number estimated to be less than 10% of the total. In many cases, these substances (particularly the alkaloids) serve as plant defense mechanisms against predation by microorganisms, insects, and herbivores. Many of the herbs and spices used by humans to season food yield useful medicinal compounds.

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NAMES OF HERBS & MEDICINAL PLANTS

AIRPLANT

English Name : Airplant, Leaf of life, Life Plant

Malayalam: Elamarunna

In Ayurveda the leaves, are used for treatment of vomiting of blood, acute inflammation, and menorrhagia

ARJUNA

English Name : Arjuna

Malayalam: Nirmaruttu

The bark contains calcium and tannins. The bark is very useful for heart disease.The powdered bark is useful in bringing down high pulse rate to normal. The bark is used for Ayurvedic medicinal purpose.

ASOKA

Botanical name : SARACA INDICA

Malayalam name : ASOKAM

It belongs to the legume family and genus Saraca. One of its varieties is a very handsome, small, erect evergreen tree, with deep green foliage. Its flowers are very fragrant and are bright orange-yellow in color and later turn red.This medicinal plant is useful in treatment of excessive menstruation.

ASAFOETIDA

Botanical name: FERULA NORTHEX

Malayalam name: PERUNGAYAM

This medicinal plant is useful in relieving spasm and indigestion, cholera, whooping cough and heart diseases.

ANISEED

Botanical name : PIMPINELLA ANISUM

Malayalam name : SHOMBU

Aniseed is the schizocarpic fruit of the annual anise plant of the parsley family and consists of two half-fruits .The seed is ground-grey to greyish-brown in colour.It is used mainly as a flavourant, culinary, household, cosmetic and medicinal.

ACACIA CATECHU

Botanical name : ACACIA CATECHU

Malayalam name : KARINGALI

A wood extract called catechu is used in traditional medicine for sore throats and diarrhea.

AEGLE MARMELOS

Botanical name : AEGLE MARMELOS

Malayalam name : KOOVALAM

The different parts of Bael are used for various therapeutic purposes, such as for treatment of Asthma, Anaemia, Fractures, Healing of Wounds, Swollen Joints, High Blood Pressure, Jaundice, Diarrhoea Healthy Mind and Brain Typhoid Troubles during Pregnancy

AZADIRACHTA INDICA

Botanical name : AZADIRACHTA INDICA

Malayalam name : VEPPU

Used in agriculture, medicines, oral care, Ayurvedic and unani system of medicine.

ACORUS CALAMUS

Botanical name : ACORUS CALAMUS

Malayalam name : VAYAMBU

Calamus is a perennial plant that grows in swamps.Also known as sweet flag or sweet cane.This plant is useful in Asthma .It is valued as a "rejuvenator" for the brain and nervous system, and as a remedy for digestive disorders.

ADHATODA ZEYLANICA

Botanical name : ADHATODA ZEYLANICA

Malayalam name : ADALODAKAM

The chief use of vasaka is as an expectorant; it is given in the form of juice, syrup or decoration, It softens the thick sputum, facilitates its coming out and thus bring about quick relief in bronchitis.

ALOE BARBADENSIS

Botanical name : ALOE BARBADENSIS

Malayalam name : KATTARVAZHA

The gel in the leaves can be made into a smooth type of cream that can heal burns such as sunburn. They can also be made into types of special soaps

ALPINIA CALCARATA

Botanical name : ALPINIA CALCARATA

Malayalam name : CHITTARATHA

These plants grow from large rhizomes. The stem consists of closely folded blades, such as in banana trees. The flowers grow on long racemes. They are popularly grown as ornamentals for their flashy

flowers.

ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS

Botanical name : ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS

Malayalam name : SATHAVARI

Shatavari plant is used traditionally for treatment of many diseases. Tuber, leaves and fruits are used in gonorrhea, piles, diabetes, rheumatism, cough, diarrhoea, dysentery, gastric troubles and headache

ACONYTUM HETEROPHYLUM

Botanical name : ACONYTUM HETEROPHYLUM

Malayalam name : ATHIVIDAYAM

Tridoosh-har, Sexual disorders, abdominal disorders, Cough, Chronic cold

ANACYCLUS PYRETHEUM

Botanical name : ANACYCLUS PYRETHEUM

Malayalam name : AKKI KARUKA

They have a slight aromatic smell and a persistent, pungent taste, exciting a remarkable flow of saliva. It possesses stimulant and rubifacient properties.

ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA

Botanical name : ANDROGRAPHIS PANICULATA

Malayalam name : KIRIYATH

The Ayurvedic practitioners of India have used the roots and leaves of the herb Andrographis paniculata to treat ailments ranging from poor digestion to hepatitis

BELLERIC MYROBLAN

Botanical name: TERMINDIA CHEBULA RETZ

Malayalam name: HARAD OR HARITAKI

Belleric is a large tree, often with buttresses. It has large leaves, 10 to 25 cm long, clustered near ends of branches; small pale green foul-smelling flowers in simple spikes and egg-shaped, brownish long fruits densely covered with hair.Half ripe fruit of the belleric myroblan is a purgative.It is used in chronic constipation

CALLICARPA MICROPYLE

Botanical Name: CALLICARPA MACROPHYLLA

Malayalam : NJAZHAL POO, NJAZHAL

The flowers and fruits are bitter, sweet, astringent, acrid, anodyne, stomatitis, expectorant, depurative, anthelmintic, deodorant, digestive, styptic, febrifuge and good tonic. Flowers and fruits are useful in rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, catarrh, anorexia, headache, foul ulcers, flatulence, colic diarrhea, dysentery, skin diseases, burning sensation, excessive sweating, diabetes, vomiting, fever and general debility. Leaves are useful in gout and arthralgia. Root is chewed to relieve rashes on the tongue.

CASTOR OIL PLANT

Botanical Name: RICINUS COMMUNIS

Malayalam name: AVANAKKU

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.

CENTELLA ASIATICA

Botanical Name: CENTELLA ASIATICA

Malayalam name: KUDANGAL

In Ayurvedic, the plant is used for the treatment of leprosy and skin diseases and also to improve memory, as an antidote to cholera, and in bronchitis, asthma, gastric trouble, catarrh, leucorrhea, kidney troubles, urethritis and dropsy.

CYPERUS ROTUNDUS

Botanical Name: CYPERUS ROTUNDUS

Malayalam name: MUTHANGA

The root is often used for developing high memory. This herb also harmonizes the liver, spleen, and pancreas. The grass is anthelmintic, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic, anti-rheumatic, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac and astringent. It cures kapha and pitta disorders, dyspepsia, vomiting, indigestion, thirst, worm troubles, cough, bronchitis, dysuria, and poisonus affections. It is used as an insect repellent, for perfuming clothing.

HOLY BASIL

Botanical name: OCIMUM BASILICUM

Malayalam name: THULASI

It is considered a symbol of fidelity and helpful in attaining spiritual enlightenment. It has been used to support a healthy response to stress, maintain blood sugar levels within a normal range, promote longevity, nourish the mind and elevate the spirit.

BRAHMI

Botanical name : BACOPA MONNIERI

Malayalam name: BRAHMI

The plant is an aquatic creeping perennial herb.The herb is found floating in the waters of marshes and wetlands .This plant is useful mental diseases, nervous disorders, and constipation and as diuretic .This plant is also a blood purifier.

BALIOSPERMUM MONTANUM

Botanical name: BALIOSPERMUM MONTANUM

Malayalam name: NAGADANDHI

Plant pacifies vitiated vata, dropsy, constipation, flatulence, jaundice, hemorrhoids, skin diseases, calculi, wounds, splenomeg

BOERHAAVIA DIFFUSA

Botanical name: BOERHAAVIA DIFFUSA

Malayalam name: THAZHUTHAMA, PUNARNAVA

The fresh juice of its roots instilled into eyes, mitigates the ailments of the eyes like night blindness and conjunctivitis

BLACK CUMIN

Botanical name: NIGELLA SATIVA

Malayalam name: KARINJEERAKAM

The root is eaten as a vegetable. The fruits’ aroma is earthy and heavy, not pleasant at all. On frying or cooking, the taste changes to nutty.

BITTER GOURD

Botanical name: MOMORDICA CHARANTIA

Malayalam name: PAVAKKA

Bitter gourd juice is highly beneficial for treating blood disorders like blood boils and itching due to toxemia. That is highly beneficial in lowering sugar levels in blood and urine. Bitter melon juice has been shown to significantly improve glucose tolerance without increasing blood insulin levels.

BOTTLE GOURD

Botanical name: LAGENARIA SICERARIA

Malayalam name: CHURAKKA

The juice of bottle gourd is a valuable medicine for excessive thirst due to severe diarrhea, diabetes and excessive use of fatty or fried foods. The Gourd fruit juice is used in the treatment of insanity, epilepsy nervous diseases, stomach acidity, indigestion and ulcers.

CELERY

Botanical name: APIUM GRAVEOLENS L

Malayalam name: AYAMODAKAM

The whole plant is gently stimulant, nourishing, and restorative; it can be liquidized and the juice taken for joint and urinary tract inflammations, such as rheumatoid arthritis, cystitis or urethritis, for weak conditions and nervous exhaustion.

CINNAMON

Botanical name: CINNAMOMUM VERUM

Malayalam name: KARUVAPATTA

It is very famous spice .belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka and Southern India.Cinnamon bark is widely used as a spice. It is principally employed in cookery as a condiment and flavouring material, being largely used in the preparation of some kinds of desserts, chocolate, spicy candies, tea, hot cocoa and liqueurs.

CORIANDRUM

Botanical name: CORIANDRUM SATIVUM L

Malayalam name: MALLI

Coriandrum is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae.Coriander is an essential part of curry powder in Indian .Coriander leaves are also used in India.

CLOVES

Botanical name: EUGENIA CARYOPHYLLATA

Malayalam name: GRAMBU

Cloves can be used in cooking either whole or in a ground form, but they are used sparingly because they have an extremely strong flavour.

DESMODIUM GANGETICUM

Botanical name : DESMODIUM GANGETICUM

Malayalam name : ORILA

It is used to cure typhoid and other fevers, asthma, bronchitis, vomiting, dysentery, piles, biliousness, chorela, scorpion sting and snake bite. The roots of Desmodium gangeticum are used as one of the ingredients of two very important Ayurvedic preparations, 'Dashmoola Kwatha' and `Dashamootarishta'

DRUMSTICK

Botanical name : MORINGA OLEIFERA FAMILY

Malayalam name : MURINGAKKA

Drumsticks", are commonly consumed in South Asia. They are prepared by parboiling, and cooked in a sauce until soft. The seed pods are particularly high in vitamin C. The leaves are the most nutritious part of the plant, being a significant source of vitamin B₆, vitamin C, provitamin A as beta-carotene

ELETTARIA CARDAMOMUM

Botanical name: ELETTARIO CARDAMOMUM

Malayalam name: ELAKKAI

Cardamom is used as a spice .cardamom is broadly used to treat infections in teeth and gums, to prevent and treat throat troubles, congestion of the lungs and pulmonary tuberculosis, inflammation of eyelids and also digestive disorders.

EMBLICA

Botanical name: PHYLLANTHUS EMBLICA L

Malayalam name: NELLIKKAY

Emblica is a deciduous tree found in India. Its fruit is round, greenish-yellow .This plant is useful as laxative, diarrhoea, and dysentery good for liver.

EUPHORBIA

Botanical name: EUPHORBIA

Malayalam name: NELAPALAI

Monoecious. Herbs or small shrubs, with latex. Flowers in small groups surrounded by a more or less deeply lobed involucre with 4-5 (rarely more) glands at the top and usually pubescent within, the whole forming a cyathium.This medicinal plant is useful as depressant in heart and respiration ,removing worms ,bowel complaints ,asthma and cough.

ECLIPTA PROSTRATA

Botanical name: ECLIPTA PROSTRATA

Malayalam name: KANJUNNI

Plant is rubbed on the gums in toothache and applied with a little oil for relieving headache and with sesame oil in elephantiasis.

FENNEL

Botanical name: FOENICULUM VULGARE

Malayalam name: PERUM JEERAKAM

Fennel is a species in the genus Foeniculum.Fennel leaves can be boiled, the steam inhaled to relieve croup, asthma, and bronchitis.

FENUGREEK

Botanical name: TRIGONELLA FOENUM-GRAECUM

Malayalam name: ULUVA

Fenugreek is used both as an herb and as a spice .Fenugreek seeds are mixed with yogurt and used as a conditioner for hair.Fenugreek is mainly used as digestive aid. It is ideal for treating sinus and lung congestion, reducing inflammation, and fighting infection

GINGER

Botanical name: ZINGIBER OFFICINALE ROSCOE

Malayalam name: INJI

Ginger is commonly used as a spice in cuisines throughout the world. Ginger is used in all sub-varieties of the Indian cuisines.Ginger is believed to reduce nausea by increasing digestive fluids and absorbing and neutralizing toxins and stomach acid.Ginger also has been shown to reduce the stickiness of blood platelets and may thereby reduce the risk of atherosclerosis.

GARLIC

Botanical name: ALLIUM SATIVUM L

Malayalam name: VELLULLY

Garlic is a species in the onion family Alliaceae. Garlic is widely used around the world for its pungent flavour, as a seasoning or condiment.Garlic is claimed to help prevent heart disease, including atherosclerosis, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and to improve the immune system.

GREEN GRAM

Botanical name: VIGNA RADIATA

Malayalam name: CHERU PAYRU

In Kerala, it is commonly used to make the parippu preparation in the Travancore region (unlike Cochin and Malabar, where toor dal, tuvara parippu, is used). It is also used, with coconut milk and jaggery, to make a type of payasam.

GREEN MILKWEED CREEPER

Botanical name: COSMOSTIGMA RACEMOSUM

Malayalam name: VATTU VALLI

The seed oil in plasters applied to the skin is effective for scabies and prurigo, and applied to the hair kills head-lice. The glycosides extracted from the seeds are active on heart failure. The trunk bark or the leaves are occasionally used as a purgative, but strict precautions must be taken because of their high toxicity.

GOAT WEED

Botanical name: AGERATUM CONYZOIDES

Malayalam name: APPA

It is sold as a health supplement; usually in raw herb, tablet, or capsule form and sometimes blended with other supplements.

HARMALA

Botanical name: PEGANUM HARMALA

Malayalam name: HARMAL

This medicinal plant is useful in asthma, hysteria, rheumatism, gallstones, jaundice and difficulty and painful menstruation.

HENNA

Botanical name: LAWSONIA INERMIS L.

Malayalam name: MAILANCHI

This medicinal plant we useful in skin deseases, head ache, hair die.

HOLARRHENA PUBESCENS

Botanical name: HOLARRHENA PUBESCENS.

Malayalam name: KUDAKAPPALA

It is one of the best drugs for diarrhoea. In chronic diarrhoea & to check blood coming from stool, it should be given with Isobgol, caster oil or Indrayav.According to Ayurvedic, the bark is useful in treatment of piles, skin diseases and biliousness.

HEMIDESMUS INDICUS

Botanical name: HEMIDESMUS INDICUS.

Malayalam name: NARUNEENDI

The roots can be cooked and taken; it is helpful for increased body heat and venereal diseases. It can be prepared as decoction for fever, urinary infections. The root powder can also be administered for dysentery, leucoderma and piles etc.

HOLOSTEMMA ADAKODIEN

Botanical name: HOLOSTEMMA ADAKODIEN.

Malayalam name: ADAPATHIYAN

Mainly the roots and the whole plant are used for medicinal purposes. Externally the paste of its leaves and roots alleviate oedema due to vitiation of pitta dosa. The herb is beneficial for external use in various skin diseases, wounds and inflammation of the skin.

INDIAN ACALYPHA

Botanical name: ACALYPHAINDICA

Malayalam name: KUPPAMANI

This plants us useful in bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia and rheumatism.

INDIAN BIRTHWORT

Botanical name: ARISTOLOCHIA

Malayalam name: KARANDA VALLI

This is an aggressive, sun-loving slender climber.This plant is useful in improving digestion and regulates menstruation.

JAMBUL

Botanical name: SYZGIUM CUMINI

Malayalam name: NJAVAL PAZHAM

The fruit and seeds of the Jambul tree have long been used in Eastern traditional medicine, and are gaining more interest here in the West for the treatment of diabetes. It has a high source in vitamin A and vitamin C.

KALADANA

Botanical name: IPOMOEA HEDERACEA

Malayalam name: TALIYARI

A twining plant indigenous to India. The seeds are about 5 millimetres in length; and are nearly black in colour, except at the micropyle, where they are brown. In shape they resemble the quarter of an orange, and usually bear a shallow groove on the dorsal surface.Kaladana is a purgative.

KARAYA

Botanical name: STERCULIA URENS ROXB

Malayalam name: THONDI

This medicinal plant is used in throat infections, dental powders, lozenges and pastes.

LIQUORICE

Botanical name: GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA

Malayalam name: IRATIMADHURAM

This medicinal plant is useful in cough, sore throat, bronchitis, abdominal pains, consumption and epilepsy.

LOBELIA

Botanical name: LOBELIA SIPHILITICA

Malayalam name: KATTU PUKAYILA

This medicinal plant is useful in stimulate respiration and is used for bronchitis and asthma.

MADHUCA

Botanical name: MADHUCA INDICA

Malayalam name: POONAM

Madhuca indica is the botanical name of Madhuka tree which belongs to family Sapotaceae.The Honey tree (English name) has many medicinal uses. Almost all parts of this tree are medicinally very important.This medicinal plant is useful in diabetes, curing itch, ulcer, cough and bronchitis

MUCUNA PRURIENS

Botanical name: MUCUNA PRURIENS

Malayalam name: NAIKKORANA

It is a good aphrodisiac and also a nervine tonic. It is used in the treatment of spermatorrhea and diseases of the genitourinary system.

MANGO

Botanical name: MAGNIFERA INDICA

Malayalam name: MANGA

The mango is generally sweet, although the taste and texture of the flesh varies across cultivars,

NILGIRIANTHUS CILIATUS

Botanical name: NILGIRIANTHUS CILIATUS

Malayalam name: KARINGURINJI

ONION

Botanical name: ALLIUM CEPA

Malayalam name: ULLY

Evidence suggests that onions may be effective against the common cold, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other diseases. They contain anti-inflammatory, anticholesterol, anticancer, and antioxidant components

OREGANO

Botanical name: ORIGANUM VULGARE

Malayalam name: KATTUMARUVA

Oregano is a species of Origanum and a member of the mint family.It has an aromatic, warm and slightly bitter taste. This is an antioxidant.useful for relieving children's coughs.The oregano oil possesses carminative, stomachic, diuretic, diaphoretic properties.

OROXYLUM INDICUM

Botanical name: OROXYLUM INDICUM

Malayalam name: PALAKAPAYYANI

The decoction of the bark is taken for curing mouth cancer, scabies and other skin diseases gastric ulcer and a paste made of the bark powder is applied for

PEPPER

Botanical name: PIPER NIGRUM

Malayalam name: KURUMULAKU

Pepper is known as the king of spices.pepper is useful in illnesses such as constipation, diarrhea, earache, gangrene, heart disease, hernia, hoarseness, indigestion, insect bites, insomnia, joint pain, liver problems, lung disease, oral abscesses, sunburn, tooth decay, and toothaches.

PEEPAL

Botanical name: FICUS RELIGIOSA

Malayalam name: ARAYAL

Decoction of its bark with honey is good for cure of skin diseases .Its bark is useful in gonorrhoea, ulcer and various other skin diseases.Dried fruit of this tree is useful for asthma.

PUNARNAVA

Botanical name: BOERHAAVIA DIFFUSA LINN

Malayalam name: THAZHUTHAMA

Punarnava helps maintain efficient kidney function, with its diuretic, anti-spasmodic and anti-inflammatory action.

PARSLEY

Botanical name: PETROSELINUM CRISPUM

Malayalam name: SEEMA MALLI

Parsley is a cold weather crop, growing best in rich, moist soil.Parsley is a bright green, biennial herb, also used as spice The leaves, stems and fruits contain a glucoside apiin, which on hydrolysis yields apigenin, glucose and a sugar; apiose .The herb is possessing diuretic, carminative, anti-pyretic properties.

POMEGRANATE

Botanical name: PUNICA GRANATUM

Malayalam name: MADHALAM

The pomegranate is a neat, rounded shrub or small tree that can grow to 20 or 30 ft., but more typically to 12 to 16 ft. in height.It is good source of the B vitamin, pantothenic acid, potassium and antioxidant polyphenols. Pomegranate juice may be effective against prostate cancer and osteoarthritis.

RAUWOLFIA

Botanical name: RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA

Malayalam name: SARPPAGANDHI

Pepper is known as the king of Rauwolfia is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs in the Apocynaceae family.It contains a number of bioactive chemicals, including ajmalicine, deserpidine, rescinnamine, serpentinine, and yohimbine.Rauwolfia is used as a remedy for anxiety, abnormal muscle tension, and twitching, In folk medicine, It has been used for fever, diarrhea, general weakness, constipation, intestinal diseases, liver problems, rheumatism, water retention, and mental disorders.

ROSE

Botanical name: ROSA

Malayalam name: ROSA

A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. Rose hips are sometimes eaten, mainly for their vitamin C content .They can also be used to make herbal tea, jam, jelly and marmalade.

RADISH

Botanical name: RAPHANUS SATIVUS

Malayalam name: MULLANGY

The radish is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family .Radishes is rich in ascorbic acid, folic acid, and potassium. They are a good source of vitamin B6, riboflavin; magnesium, copper, and calcium.Radishes are suggested as an alternative treatment for a variety of ailments including whooping cough, cancer, coughs, gastric discomfort, liver problems, constipation, dyspepsia, gallbladder problems, arthritis, gallstones, kidney stones and intestinal parasites

SAAGE

Botanical name: SALVIA OFFICINALIS

Malayalam name: SALVITULASI

Salvia is a genus in the mint family, Lamiaceae. Salvia officinalis, Garden sage, Kitchen sage, Dalmatian sage, a grey-leaved perennial with showy blue flowers this is "the" sage. Salvia cold tea will stop sweating, while the same tea, drunk hot, will produce sweating.

SAFFRON

Botanical name: CROCUS SATIVUS L

Malayalam name: KUNKUMAPOOVE

Saffron a species of crocus in the family Iridaceae. As a medicinal plant, saffron has traditionally been considered an anodyne, antispasmodic, aphrodisiac, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, expectorant, and sedative. Saffron is reported to contain a poison of the central nervous system and kidneys that can prove fatal

SANDAL WOOD

Botanical name: SANTALUM ALBUM

Malayalam name: CHANDANAM

Sandalwood is the fragrant wood of trees in the genus Santalum. Sandalwood essential oil was popular in medicine, mostly as urogenital (internal) and skin (external) antiseptic. Its main component santalol has antimicrobial property. It is used in aromatherapy.

SNAKE GOURD

Botanical name: TRICHOSANTHES CUCUMERINA

Malayalam name: PADAVALANGA

This vegetable produces long and curved fruits that appear like snakes hanging on the supports or ground. Snake gourd is useful in restoring the disordered processes of nutrition. It creates a cooling effect in the body. Being a low-calorie food, diabetics can safely include it to reduce weight while getting enough nutrition. Its leaves are used in indigenous medicines.

SESAME

Botanical name: SESAMUM INDICUM

Malayalam name: ELLU

It grows to about 5 feet tall and has interesting bell-shaped flowers and seed pods. Sesame seeds and oil is used in in some dishes.Sesame oil is used for massage and health treatments of the body. Sesame is supposed to tonify kidney, liver and relax the bowel. It is used for the treatment of constipation due to hard stools, tinnitus, anaemia, dizziness and poor vision. Sesame oil is mildly laxative, emollient and demulcent. The seeds and fresh leaves may be used as a poultice.

SWEET MARJORAM

Botanical name: MAJORANA HORTENSIS

Malayalam name: MARUVAMU

Marjoram oil was used to promote perspiration in those

Suffering from measles, and was also regarded as a treatment for spasms.

SAND GINGER

Botanical name: KAEMPFERIA GALANGAL

Malayalam name: KACHOLAM

It is widely used for its aroma and flavor in cuisines and for food preservation.

SHAMPOO GINGER

Botanical name: ZINGIBER ZERUMBET

Malayalam name: MALA INCHI, KATTINJI, KATTINIKUVA

For a toothache or a cavity, the cooked and softened 'Awapuhi rhizome was pressed into the hollow and left for as long as was needed.

SILK COTTON TREE

Botanical name: SALMALIA MALABARICA

Malayalam name: MULLILAVAU

It is used for Hamorrhoid, Urinary conditions, Cough, Asthma, Tuberculosis, Kidney conditions, Eye conditions, Dysentery Leucorrhea

SYMPLOCOS BARK

Botanical name: SYMPLOCOS RACEMOSA

Malayalam name: PACHOTTI

The astringent bark is given for the treatment of diarrhea, dysentery and liver complaints. It is recommended in the treatment of menorrhagia and other uterine disorders.

SALEP ORCHID

Botanical name: ORCHIS LATIFOLIA

Malayalam name: SALAMISRI

It is used for diabetes, diarrhea, dysentery, hemiplegia, paralysis, general weakness, Impotence, nervous or sexual debility, wasting diseases

SERPENTINA ROOT

Botanical name: RAUWOLFIA SERPENTINA

Malayalam name: CHUVANNAVILPORI

Hindus used this plant for centuries as a febrifuge and as an antidote to the bites of poisonous reptiles like snakes. Its medicinal value has been accepted by the allopathic system.

SOLANUM MELONGENA L

Botanical name: SOLANUM MELONGENA L

Malayalam name: VAZHUTHANANGA

Eggplant is also widely used for medicinal purposes. Various plant parts are used in decoction, as powder or ash for curing ailments such as diabetes, cholera, bronchitis, dysuria, dysentery, otitis, toothache, skin infections, asthenia and hemorrhoids. Eggplant is also ascribed narcotic, anti-asthmatic and anti-rheumatic properties.

SESBANIA GRANDIFLORA

Botanical name: SESBANIA GRANDIFLORA PERS L

Malayalam name: AGATHI

The tender leaves, green fruit, and flowers are eaten alone as a vegetable or mixed into curries or salads. Flowers may be dipped in batter and fried in butter

SAGE LEAVED ALANGIUM

Botanical name: ALANGIUM SALVIIFOLIUM

Malayalam name: ANKOLAM, VELITHONDI

In Ayurvedic the roots and the fruits are used for treatment of rheumatism, and hemorrhoid. Externally it is used for the treatment of bites of rabbits, rats, and dogs

SIRIS TREE

Botanical name: ALBIZIA LEBBECK

Malayalam name: VAKA, NENMENI VAKA

The flowers, fruit, bark, leaves and roots are all used in medicine. The seeds contain crude protein, calcium, phosphorous, iron, niacin and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and most of the essential amino acids.

SOAP BARK

Botanical name: ACACIA INTSIA WILLD

Malayalam name: INCHA

It is used for treating acute bacterial dysentery, baldness, malaria, poisonous snake bites, rheumatism, migraine headache, and toothaches.

TAMARIND

Botanical name: TAMARINDUS INDICA

Malayalam name: PULY

Tamarind is in the family Fabaceae .The tree can grow up to 20 m in height, and stays evergreen in regions without a dry season. The fruit pulp is edible and popular. It is used as a spice .It is Cathartic, astringent, febrifuge, antiseptic, refrigerant.

TURMERIC

Botanical name: CURCUMA LONGA

Malayalam name: MANJAL

Turmeric is used as a readily available antiseptic for cuts and burns.It is taken in some Asian countries as a dietary supplement, which allegedly helps with stomach problems and other ailments. Turmeric is also used in the formulation of some sunscreens.

THYME

Botanical name: THYMUS

Malayalam name: THOTTATHULASI

The stems tend to be narrow or even wiry; the leaves are evergreen in most species, arranged in opposite pairs, oval, entire, and small, 4-20 mm long. Thyme an antiseptic, is the main active ingredient in Listerine mouthwash.Before the advent of modern antibiotics, it was used to medicate bandages

VASAKA

Botanical name: ADHATODA VASICA

Malayalam name: ADALODAKAM

In India it has been treated as grandmother’s medicine. Not only its leaves are used to aid but the flowers, stem and roots also very useful in curing cough, cold, asthma, bronchitis. The fluid extract from leaves is very helpful to treat diarrhea and dysentery.The root, bark and flower of vasaka can help to eliminate intestinal parasite.

VALERIAN

Botanical name: VALERIANA OFFICINALIS

Malayalam name: KALAVALA

It is a hardy perennial flowering plant, with heads of sweetly scented pink or white flowers. The flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by Bees, flies, beetles.Valerian is a nutritional supplement.Therapeutic use as dietary spplements have gained in popularity, especially after the Dietary.Valerian is used against sleeping disorders, restlessness and anxiety, and as a muscle relaxant. Valerian seems only to work when taken over longer periods.

.VITEX NEGUNDO

Botanical name: VITEX NEGUNDO

Malayalam name: KARINOCHI

The leaves are astringent, febrifuge, sedative, tonic and vermifuge. They are useful in dispersing swellings of the joints from acute rheumatism and of the testes from suppressed gonorrhoea. The juice of the leaves is used for removing foetid discharges and worms from ulcers, whilst oil prepared with the leaf juice is applied to sinuses and scrofulous sores

VILATI AMLI

Botanical name: GARCINIA CAMBOGIA

Malayalam name: KODUMPULI

Garcinia cambogia was able to decrease the acidity and to increase the mucosal defense in the gastric areas, thereby justifying its use as an antiulcerogenic agent.

VAIVIDANG

Botanical name: EMBELIA RIBES

Malayalam name: VIZHAL

It is used in abdominal disorders, skin fungal infections, flatulence, constipation, indigestion, headache, hemorrhoids, lung diseases, obesity, piles, pneumonia, mouth ulcers, toothache and sore throat. Its decoction is useful in insanity and heart diseases.

VETIVER

Botanical name: VETIVERIA ZIZANIOIDES

Malayalam name: RAMACHAM

The oil is reported to be used as a carminative in flatulence, colic and obstinate vomiting. It is regarded as a stimulant, diaphoretic, refrigerant, astringent and antibacterial and when applied externally, it removes excess heat from the body and gives a cooling effect. A decoction of the leaves is recommended as a diaphoretic.

WATERMELON

Botanical name: CITRULLUS LANATUS

Malayalam name: THANNIMATHAN

This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit known by botanists as a pepo, which has a thick rind and fleshy center .Watermelons are low in calories and very high in lycopene, which is a very heart-healthy phytochemical. Watermelon also has a lot of vitamin A and beta carotene too.

WITHANIA ROOT

Botanical name: WITHANIA SOMNIFERA

Malayalam name: AMUKKURAM

Its roots are used to treat nervous and sexual disorders.

WOODFORDIA FRUTICOSA

Botanical name: WOODFORDIA FRUTICOSA

Malayalam name: THATHIRI PUSHPI

Common name of this plant is Fire Flame Bush, Red Bell Bush.

WILD LIQUORICE

Botanical name: ABRUS PRECATORIUS

Malayalam name: KUNNIKKURU

It was also used to treat coughs, diarrhea, chest pains, and fevers in children, stomach aches etc. It was also used as a wash or poultice on swellings

WILD RIBBED GOURD

Botanical name: LUFFA ACUTANGULA

Malayalam name: KATTU PEECHINGA

The juice of the fresh leaves of Jhingaka is useful for treating granular conjunctivitis in children.

ZIZYPHUS

Botanical name: ZIZYPHUS MAURITIANA

Malayalam name: ELANTHA PAZHAM

This plant seems effective against melanoma cells due to the presence of betulinic acid, a growth inhibitor of cancer cells. Used against sleeping disorder (insomnia); it is mild sedative.
Further, against heart palpitations, anxiety, nervous exhaustion and night sweats.

ZYMBOPOGON CITRATUS

Botanical name: ZYMBOPOGON CITRATUS

Malayalam name: INJI PULLU

Inji pullu (Cymbopogon citratus) is a tropical plant from Southeast Asia which is often sold in stem form. Its leaves are used to make tea which can relieve stomach and gut problems.