Medicinal Plants & And Their Importance

While travelling we can see many wild plants in every corners of bengal. But we do not carefully look at them but if we try to know about this plants, we can see that this plants are very much helpful for human beings. If we carefully investigate the vegetables, plants and herbs that has ayurvedic impact, we can cure our health problems in a second. Do you know pets and wild animals eat grass and lantana camara? Dogs cannot digest grass still they eat because they do not have the enzyme to break the complex carbohydrate into simple carbohydrate. To get rid of stomach pain and animal epidemics they eat grass and different kinds of leaves.  Same way Sloth Bear eats the Cassia Fistula fruit to get rid of constipation. Wild animals through many many plants and herbs cure their own health problems. Mother nature has created lots of medicinal plants and vegetables to protect all the species from any kinds of danger.In ancient times human beings have learned different ways of useing this medicinal plants from wild and pet animals. In Rigveda, we can find from 1500 BC human beings have started learning the ways to use this medicinal plants. In Ayurveda, Charak and Shusruta's contribution is implicable. In Charak Samhita we find 700 medicines from plant kingdom and 2000 medicines from plant kingdom in Shusruta Samhita. These is a introduction blog about the topic I will write about. I will write about one medicinal plant in every week. Please do read and use it in your daily life to get a green and healthy life.

                                      - Shashwata Chakraborty