Tag Archives : stems

Foetid cassia

Foetid cassia

Cassia is the Ayurvedic herbs and is also widely used in Chinese medicine. Cassia grows moist, warm, tropical climate, wild and commercial. The stems are cut down when the tank is mature. Bark is removed so short and then dried. Cassia bark is aromatic, again similar to cinnamon, but differ in both quality strength.Cassia skin is darker, coarser and thicker. This is a laxative, mucilaginous and laxative [...]
Eugenia jambolana

Eugenia jambolana

Evergreen tree to 25 m tall, with young shoots dirty white and lower bark thick and discolored. The leaves are opposite, entire, simple, elliptic to broadly oblong cm, smooth, glossy, somewhat leathery, 5-10 in short, is at the tip, the petioles to 3 cm long, prominent midrib of the leaf, yellowish, with several sheets of lateral veins almost parallel. The leaves are antibacterial, and are used to [...]
Bambusa Arundinacea

Bambusa Arundinacea

The leaves are sweet, astringent, cooling, emmenagougue, opthalmic, vulnerary, constipating & febrifuge. Bamboo leaves contain the highest protein levels, stems have less.The bamboo resin (Tabasheer, Banshalochan) is the Siliceous secretion present in the internodes of the stems of various species of Bamboo. It occurs in fragments of masses, & is translucent or transparent & bluish white [...]
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