What You Can Do To Save 
Our Herbal Treasure?

1. Take more interest in the home treatments done by your parents / grandparents. Send them to us and we will display them for all to use.
   
   
2. Plant medicinal plants in your home / school / community parks. 
   
   
3. Create awareness about our rich tradition of medicinal plants in your club , school and others possible places. 

TO BEGIN WITH,  WHAT PLANTS CAN YOU GROW  ?

Come, lets revive the old traditions and in return earn a healthy life. Almost all plants in this world possess some medicinal property or the other. Some have a lot of medicinal value e.g.. Neem or Tulsi and some may be easily used at homes without much processing. Find out about such plants and try to grow them both in the school and your house. A few other medicinal plants you can easily grow are suggested below. If you don't already have them growing in your house, they may be obtained from any good nursery or even your friends.

1. Shoe-flower, Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) : Only the five petaled red flowered hibiscus has medicinal value. It treats fevers, strengthens hair, etc.
2. Clove,Laung (Piper longum): From tooth aches to digestive disorders, coughs to cholera, earaches to asthma, clove is the answer.
3. Henna (Lawsonia inermis): Apart from being used to decorate hands and colour hair, henna helps in treating baldness, dysentery, headaches... .
4. Pomegranate (Punica granatum) : A good appetizer, also cures worms. sore eyes, etc.
5. Tulsi, Holy Basil (Ocimum sanctum) : Worshipped in houses, the air purifying tulsi can also keep fevers at bay, if you only swallow a few leaves every morning. 
6. Curry Patta (Murraya koenigi) : An aromatic and ornamental shrub, leaves are used in many Indian dishes and are good in treating digestive disorders, premature graying of hair, diabetes, etc.
7. Lemon Grass (Cymbopogon citratus) : An aromatic grass, add a little to your tea for a refreshing taste. Good for cold, etc.
8. Calendula (Calendula officinalis) : The plant with the bright saffron flowers, is excellent first aid for burns, scalds, stings and wounds.
9. Kumari (Aloe vera) : This cactus is used in numerous cosmetics, is good for our skin, hair, liver, stomach.....
10. Garden Balsam ( Impatiens balsaminia): Commonly cultivated, has sacred value and medicinal value. Flowers used for dying finger nails.  
11. Rangoon Creeper, Madhumalti (Quisqualis indica): Grown as an ornamental plant, is beneficial in diarrhoea, fever, rickets, abdominal pain.
12. Aswagandha (Withania somnifera): Esteemed for its rejuvenating capacity, it is believed to impart long life, youthful vigour and intellectual power. 

Other medicinal plants one can easily grow at home are given below along with suitable planting time:

• Garlic (Lahsan): (Oct)
• Turmeric (Haldi): (July-Aug)
• Mint (Pudina): (July-Aug)
• Bitter gourd (Karela) :(Feb)
• Corriander (Dhaniya)
• Fennel (Saunf)
• Mustard (Oct)
• Ginger (Adrak)
• Carrot (Oct)
• Onion (Nov)
• Fenugreek (Methi) (Sept-Oct)
• Asparagus (Shatavari)

Take care of your plants regularly by:

• Water them regularly ( Water daily for Tulsi, Laung and Curry Patta). During winters the quantity of water should decrease, though the frequency remains the same.

• Remove the weeds growing around the plants.
• Find out how the above may be used by going through books , websites and by asking your elders. Write them down and share it with others.
• Label the medicinal plants in your school so that others too may benefit.