1. ALOE VERA Description: Botanical name: Aloe Vera Family: Liliaceae SANSKRIT SYNONYMS Kumari‚ Grithakumari‚ Grihakanya PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES English : Aloe‚ Indian aloe Hindi : Gheekaumar‚ Ghikumari Distribution – Cultivated in the dry areas of India PLANT DESCRIPTION a perennial shrub with fleshy leaves and short stem. Leaves fleshy
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Aloe (Aloe vera) is a major and traditional medicinal plant under family of Liliaceae. Aloe consumed externally and internally as well. It is used externally to treat several skin burn conditions‚ sunburn and poison oak‚ infections‚ and eczema. It is confirm that juice from Aloe vera ease pain and decrease inflammation. It has antiseptic and antibiotic properties in treating cuts and abrasions. Aloe juice used to treat people with ulcerative colitis‚ an inflammatory bowel disease. Moreover it acts
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Onion nutrition facts Can you imagine a recipe without the Onions? This wonderful bulb vegetable‚ one of the oldest edible sources known to humankind‚ is found in a bewildering array of recipes and preparations‚ be it your favorite salad‚ or mouth-watering gravy or curries. It has also been in used in traditional medicines since ancient times for its health promoting and curative properties. Botanically‚ the vegetable belongs to the Alliaceae family of the genus‚ Allium and known scientifically
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Available online at www.scholarsresearchlibrary.com Scholars Research Library J. Nat. Prod. Plant Resour.‚ 2011‚ 1 (1): 24-32 (http://scholarsresearchlibrary.com/archive.html) Herbal Plants: Used as a cosmetics Shweta K. Gediya*‚ Rajan B. Mistry‚ Urvashi K. Patel‚ M. Blessy and Hitesh N. Jain Sigma Institute of Pharmacy‚ Baroda‚ Gujarat‚ India _____________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT The concept of beauty and cosmetics is as ancient as mankind
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PHYTODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION OF NITHYPOOJA KONA SACRED GROVE OF NALLAMALA HILL RANGE‚ EASTERN GHATS‚ ANDHRA PRADESH S.K.M.BASHA‚ P.SIVA KUMAR REDDY‚ M. JOHN PAUL NBKR Medicinal Plant Research Centre‚ Vidyanagar – 524413‚ SPSR‚ Nellore (Dt) A.P. Bharatiyar university‚ Coimbatore E-Mail : drskmbasha@gmail.com ABSTRACT Sacred groves are climax forests and are the only representatives of natural or near-natural vegetation. These are dedicated to deities or ancestral spirits worshipped
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Quiz 1 Origins of Agriculture 1/7 (read 180-181‚ a closer look 11.1 & centers of plant domestication) Human History * humans have existed as species ~ 195‚000 years/ farming has been practiced ~ 11‚500 years. * Knowledge of foraging societies: * archaeological evidence: middens (trash pile – bones‚ corn cobs‚ etc.) & coprolites (fossilized fecal material‚ to get an idea of what people ate) * modern evidence: !Kung‚ Ainu * Why did we start farming? * easier‚ it
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PHARMACOGNOSY REVIEWER In pharmacognosy‚ drugs may be classified based on morphology‚ chemical constituents and therapeutic applications (NOT price in the market) Factors that influence secondary constituent: heredity‚ ontogeny‚ environment Chromatography: process based on distribution of mixture between 2 phases General Information Discoverers/Scientists Joseph Caventou & Pelletier Quinine antimalarial Pierre Robiquet Codeine/Narcotine Philip Geiger & Rudolf Brandes Hyoscyamine and
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Fruits and Vegetables Outline • This stuff is scattered in the book. – Pp. 92-101 – pp. 44-47 • • • • • • • • • Tomato Apple Citrus Brassica Banana Carrot Onion Squash and Melon Tropical Fruits Fruits: Botanical and Popular • Botanically‚ a fruit is the ripened ovary wall. The ovary is part of the carpel‚ the innermost whorl of a flower‚ the female reproductive structure. The ovary contains the ovules‚ the haploid equivalent to mammalian eggs. – Some fruits also contain parts of the flower
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Futures benefit to the farmers A Study of the price differences between the lean season and the arrival season of a commodity A Summer Project Report Submitted By Harish Ramesh Summer Trainee‚ NCDEX Ltd. 1 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the project report titled “Study of the price differences between the lean season and the arrival season of a commodity and the seasonality of the commodity to understand the impact of futures trading on the commodity” done by Harish Ramesh for “National
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Food ©2007 Global Science Books Food Preservation – A Biopreservative Approach Iraj Rasooli Department of Biology‚ Shahed University‚ Opposite Imam Khomeini’s Shrine‚ Tehran-Qom Express Way‚ Tehran‚ Iran Correspondence: * rasooli@shahed.ac.ir ABSTRACT Preservative agents are required to ensure that manufactured foods remain safe and unspoiled. Antimicrobial properties of essential oils (EOs) reveal that Gram-positive bacteria are more vulnerable than Gram-negative bacteria. A number of EO
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