Living Aspects Of Poetries

hey guys i m back here with another blog , about the medicinal plants found in sikkim . this time the blog is about , aconitum ferox . Aconitum ferox (syn. A. virorum) is a member of the monkshood genus Aconitum of the Ranunculaceae. The common name by which it is most often known in English is Indian Aconite. The plant grows abundantly at Sandakphu, which is the highest point of the Darjeeling Hills in the Indian State of West Bengal. A tuberous-rooted, herbaceous perennial reaching 1.0 metre tall by 0.5 metres wide and tolerant of many soil types, Aconitum ferox forms the principal source of the Indian poison known variously as bikh, bish, and nabee. It contains large quantities of the extremely toxic alkaloid pseudaconitine (also known as nepaline, after Nepal) and is considered to be the most poisonous plant found in the Himalaya and one of the most poisonous in the world. The symptoms of poisoning usually appear 45 minutes to an hour after the consumption of a toxic dose and consi...

Back here with another blog .Bamboos are described as one of the most important renewable, easily obtained, and valuable of all forest resources. These plants belong to the grasses’ family (Poaceae), which covers about a quarter of the world’s plant population, within the subfamily Bambusoideae. The estimated diversity of bamboos in the world is approximately 1400 species, distributed in 116 genera. Bamboo species have been used in Southeast Asia, as a base material to produce paper, furniture, boats, bicycles, textiles, musical instruments, and food, and their leaves have also been used as a wrapping material to prevent food deterioration since ancient times. These species accumulate biologically active components such as polyphenols and other secondary plant metabolites that might explain the use of bamboo leaves in Asian traditional medicine for the treatment of hypertension, arteriosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, and certain forms of cancer. Besides the usual seconda...

Here. , I m back with another blog , another medicinal plants found in Sikkim . Astilbe rivularis River Astilbe is a herb 1-1.5 m tall. Leaves are compound, lower leaflets usually further divided. Leaflets are 3-5, 3-8 cm long, ovate, long-pointed, base sometimes heart-shaped, stalked to stalkless, rough, especially on the veins. Leaf-stalks and rachis are covered with long hairs, tufted at the base of leaflet-stalks. Stipules are about 1 cm long, adnate to the leaf-stalk. Flowers are borne in long terminal branch pyramidal clusters of tiny greenish yellow flowers. Peduncle is glandular villous. Flowers are bracteate, bracts lanceshaped, about 2 mm long. Sepals are 5,1.5 mm long, ovate, basally adnate to the ovary, persistent. Petals are absent. Stamens are 5, opposite the sepals, filaments 2.5 mm long. Carpels are connivent, oval, about 1.5 mm, each prolonged into a short style, less than 1 mm long. Capsules are about 4 mm long, splitting longitudinally into 2 valves. Seed...

Nature has been particularly generous in her gift of sylvan treasures to the state of Sikkim. Luxuriant forest, abound in all part of state and variety of medicinal plants, herbs, shrubs, Bamboo, NTFP’s and trees growing in state is truly rich. In the forest, there are number of plants whose medicinal values have been well recognized by local people as well as by different Pharmaceutical, insecticidal and perfumery sectors. But very little efforts have been made to develop the medicinal plants and NTFP’s in the past. There are many mores such plants which have not yet been recognized and they may have some potential of medicinal values to be used in various ailments. So, I’m here again with another blog about Sikkim’s medicinal plant. This time we will talk about, Gobre Salla  Abies webbiana Lindl. (Pinaceae), commonly known as Talispatra in Bengali and Hindi, Talispatram in Sanskrit and Indian Silver Fir in English, is a large, tall, evergreen tree occurrin...