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