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Go To Index Page Curative property of flowers New Delhi: Flowers are associated with beauty, love, passion and worship. Thus, they are common at almost all events and functions. In fact, there are many more uses of flowers, the plant's reproductive organs, than its colourful petals, which meet the eye or the scent striking the nose. Broccoli, cauliflower are flower vegetables, clove is one of the flower spices, dandelion flower is used in wine, cornflower and sunflower are other edible flowers and a few others are used to add color and flavour to salads. How many of us are aware of the medicinal value of flowers? The Siddha system of medicine has remedies through flowers. According
to the National Institute of Siddha, Chennai, henna (lawsonia inermis)
flower if kept under the pillow, due to its cooling effect is used in
curing insomnia. While, jasmine (jasminum sambac) flower is useful in
skin diseases and eye irritation, rose ( rosa indica) cures constipation,
hameturia and tuberculosis. Decoction of China rose of shoe flower or
Chinese hibiscus (hibiscus rosasinensis) with large red flower grown
as ornamental plant despite lacking any scent is used for urinary diseases
and menorrhagia. Decoction of neem (Azadirachta indica) flower acts
as a stimulant and tonic in curing gastric ulcer and kills intestinal
worms. Cassia auriculata (avarai in Tamil), famous for its yellow flowers,
is used in treatment of skin disorders and checking body odour. The
decoction of the flower can be consumed. The dried flowers can be used
as an external scrub for body odours. The flower is also useful in treating
diabetes. Crown flower (calotropis gigantean), bitter, sweet and sour
in taste, is used in bronchial asthma. Bright deep blue with light yellow
markings, butterfly pea (clitoria ternatea) plant blooms in only six
weeks from seed. Its flower is used for the medicinal values in purgative
and diuretic. Golden shower tree (cassia fistula) flowers are produced
in pendulous racemes 20-40 cm long. Its flowers are used in curing eczema,
tinea and itching. Rosy periwinkle or Madagascar periwinkle (catharanthus
roseus) is used for chromium supplementation, certain kinds of leukaemia,
human neoplasm and circulatory disorders.
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