Imagine Yourself in a pandemic lockdown situation. If you are suffering some minor illness curable through medicinal herbs but due to lockdown situation your are not allowed to go out of home.
In such situation it comes in handy if you have your own medicinal plants planted at home, with a self confidence now you are able to sure yourself at home.
We encourage you to maintain such plants at home.
So we are starting a series about information on medicinal plants at home.

Plants have been used for medicinal purposes from ancient times. Egyptian papyrus, Indian Vedas, European & Mediterranean cultures, Chinese cultures have been using plants for medicinal purposes. Since old ages our traditional systems contain practices to preventative medicines to avoid, prevent, or avert ailments. Regular use of many of these herbal plants help you to remain fit. It is easier to use such herbal medicines when they are at home, fresh, and taken care by yourself.

The forests are principal depository of large number of medicinal & aromatic plants. But do we need to depend on forests for common remedies which can be used easily? If we grow some of the plants at home our dependance on plant materials can be reduced. Home gardens provide opportunity for us to grow our own medicinal plants collection.
Most common collection can be Aloe, Tulsi, lemongrass, mint, giloy (gulvel), ashwagandha, Kalmegh (kadechirata) black pepper, long pepper. They are easy to grow, look good for visual appeal of your garden, gives you opportunity to use fresh herbs in your culinary needs. Many of them can also attract butterflies to your garden.

 In olden days we used only remedies and herbs available in India but now world has come close, we can also beautifully use some of herbal remedies used by European & Mediterranean cultures. These are herb plants and such herbs can e a wonderful way to enjoy sights, smell & tastes of wide variety
You can use plants seeds, berries, roots, bark, flowers and even leaf for medicinal purposes.