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Valuable Plants for Your Home Garden (37 Plants Highly Commended by Ayurveda for Human Health)
Valuable Plants for Your Home Garden (37 Plants Highly Commended by Ayurveda for Human Health)
Valuable Plants for Your Home Garden (37 Plants Highly Commended by Ayurveda for Human Health)
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A Home Garden has become imperative to all those who wish to keep in good health. Additionally, the Garden becomes a source of happiness for the whole family. This volume contains useful information about 37 vegetable, fruit, Salad and spice plants suitable for growing up in a Home Garden and recommended by Vedic medical system Ayurveda for humans to keep in good health. Out of these plants, further selection may be made depending on the space available for the Home Garden.
There are thousands of plant foods used by humans but all of them are not healthy for humans. Criterion followed here is that the plant derivative to be used as food ingredient must be risk-free. Ayurvedic prescriptions as provided in Vedic Scripture Bhavaprakash are being taken as reference in selection of the plants.
The plants included in this volume are - Goosefoot, Spinach, Cabbage, Carrot, Radish, Turnip, Pumpkin, Round Gourd, Water Melon, Musk Melon, Fenugreek, Turmeric, Fennel, Indian Bean, Velvet Bean, Blue Medic, Basil, Bhangara, Mint, Chilli, Omum, Guduchi, Grape, Lotus, Water Lily, Curry Leaves, Red Spinach, Aloe-vera, Milk Bush, Lemon, Grewia, Carissa, Olive, Plantain, Papaya, Guava, Pears.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRam Bansal
Release dateApr 21, 2014
ISBN9781311219961
Valuable Plants for Your Home Garden (37 Plants Highly Commended by Ayurveda for Human Health)
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Ram Bansal

An Engineering Graduate from University of Roorkee, India (now an IIT) of 1971 batch, has served Engineering Profession for 35 years, now devoted to Social Engineering, Research into Vaidic Scriptures, and Authorship for changing the humanity - the way it thinks.

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    Valuable Plants for Your Home Garden (37 Plants Highly Commended by Ayurveda for Human Health) - Ram Bansal

    Valuable Plants for Your Home Garden

    (37 Plants Highly Commended by Ayurveda for Human Health)

    By

    Ram Bansal

    Copyright Ram Bansal 2014

    Published at Smashwords

    Author's Key Websites

    'Vedic Life and Ayurveda' with focus on Health,

    'Celebration LIFE' with focus on Self Improvement

    Contents

    Preface

    Why a Home Garden?

    Other Benefits of having a Home Garden

    General Rules for a Home Garden

    In This Volume

    Section A : Winter Plants

    A1 : Leafy Vegetables

    A11 : Goosefoot : Chenopodium album (Vastuka)

    A12 : Spinach : Spinacia oleracea, (Palakya)

    A13 : Cabbage : Brassica oleracea var. Capitata, (Gojihva)

    A2 : Root Vegetables

    A21 : Carrot : Daucus carota (Grinjan)

    A22 : Radish : Raphanus sativus (Moolakam)

    A23 : Turnip : Brassica rapa (Moolakam)

    Section B : Summer Plants

    B1 : Gourds

    B11 : Pumpkin : Cucurbita maxima, (Kashish)

    B12 : Round gourd : Citrulus vulgaris var. fistulosus, (Dindish)

    B2 : Melon Fruit Plants

    B21 : Musk melon : Cucumis melo, (Kharbujam)

    B22 : Water Melon : Citrulus vulgaris, (Kalindam)

    B3 : Bean Plants

    B31 : Indian bean : Dolichos lablab, (Shimbi)

    B32 : Fenugreek : Trigonella foenum-graecum, (Methika)

    B33 : Blue Medic or Lucerne : Medicago sativa, (Neeldoorva)

    B34 : Velvet bean : Mucuna prurieta, (Kaunch)

    B4 : Spiky Plants

    B41 : Basil : Ocimum sanctum, Ocimum album, (Tulsi)

    B42 : Bhangara (?)

    B43 : Mint : Mentha arvensis (Pudina)

    Section C : Yearly Plants

    C1 : Spicy Plants

    C11 : Chilli or Red Pepper : Capsicum annuum, Capsicum frutescens

    C12 : Fennel : Foeniculum vulgaris/officinalis (Shatpushpa)

    C13 : Omum : Trachyspermum ammi, (Yavanika)

    C14 : Turmeric : Curcuma domestica, (Haridra)

    D : Perennial Plants

    D1 : Vines

    D11 : Guduchi : Tinospora cordifolia

    D12 : Grapevine : Vitis vinifera, (Draksha)

    D13 : Red Spinach : Bassela rubra/alba (Potaki)

    D2 : Water Plants

    D21 : Lotus : Nelumbium speciosum, (Padma)

    D22 : Water-Lily : Nymphaea odorata, (Kumud)

    D3 : Cactuses

    D31 : Barbedols Aloes : Aloe vera, (Ghritakumari)

    D32 : Milk Bush : Euphorbia igularia (Seehund)

    D4 : Sour Fruit Trees

    D41 : Nimbu (Lemon : Citrus limon, Citrus acidum, Lemonum acidum)

    D42 : Falsa : Grewia asiatica (Parushak)

    D43 : Jasmine-flowered Carissa : Carissa corandas (Karamarda)

    D5 : Sweet Fruit Plants

    D51 : Guava : Psidium cattleyanum (Amrita Fruit)

    D52 : Pears : Prunus persica (Nashapati)

    D53 : Plantain : Musa paradisiaca, (Kadali)

    D54 : Olive : Olea europaea (Jaitun)

    D55 : Papaya : Carica papaya (Papita)

    D6 : Leafy Plants

    D61 : Curry Leaves Tree : Murraya koenigii

    About the Author

    Preface

    Why a Home Garden?

    Home gardening has

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