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Start Your Herbal Garden With These Medicinal Herbs and Creeper Plants

Start your herbal garden with these medicinal herbs and creeper plants

Planning to start your own herbal garden? Then here are few herbal plants/creepers/shrubs you need to consider.

For many like me, space is also a big constraint. Terrace or balcony is the only solace to keep all the plant pots and care for the tiny plants.

Choosing what to plant can be a big challenge too.

Personally, it is always better to opt for plants that has medicinal values, the ones that help in our daily routine, and also need very little care and can dwell on their own.

Keeping Indian traditions and Ayurvedic values in mind, I have zeroed upon the below wonder plants to start off with.

Tulsi

Indian home’s front yard is adorned with Tulsi - the Holy Basil. For those who have moved to the apartment style of living, Tulsi plant finds place in the balcony.



Tulsi is an excellent air purifier. It is a perfect herbal medicine for several common infections. There are many who never miss to add couple of basil leaves into their morning tea. It boosts immunity and fights almost all seasonal diseases. Crushed Tulsi leaves are best to treat skin irritations and infections.

Indians have pure devotion towards Tulsi plant and is considered holy. The belief goes that Goddess Lakshmi resides in this divine plant.

So, Tulsi is the first thing for all to begin with.

Brahmi

Brahmi is an indigenous herb that has special property of boosting memory and brain power. 



Including brahmi leaves and its extracts in our daily diet has been highly recommended for ages and the effects have been proven. It is considered as an excellent brain tonic in Ayurveda, the traditional medicine system in India.

Growing brahmi at home does not take much energy. It is a creeper that spreads on its own over damp marshy land. Once spread densely, you can carefully cut its leaves along with a short length of its stem for your daily dosage of use. This herb is used in fresh salads, juice, or in some of locally made recipes.

Amrutha Balli

Amrutha Balli, the name itself translates as the elixir of life. Its common name in India is giloy.



A short stem cutting spreads across a vast area provided it gets proper support to climb. Every part of this creeper plant has high medicinal values. This is a solution for all body ailments.

Many have reaped several benefits by introducing Amrutha Balli regularly in their diet.

To use, add crushed leaves and stem to boiling water and reduce quantity to half. Strain and consume the potion on empty stomach. You may also combine Amrutha balli leaves and other medicinal value ingredients to prepare a concoction (usually called as Kashaya or Kaada in local Indian languages). 

Here is one such Kashaya recipe.

Watch video here.



Here is how you can grow Amrutha Balli from a stem cutting.




Sambara Balli

Sambara Balli is a plant that stays on and on even without much care. It will survive even when it has not been watered for a straight fortnight. Though it will look dry and pale, the plant thrives back with just sprinklings of water.



This is the first herb a newborn gets introduced to. The leaves are believed to keep the body warm and thus fights common cold, cough, fever.

Extracting juice from it leaves is simple. Warm a couple of well sized leaves on a hand pan. When the leaves softens and changes it color, squeeze and collect the juice. This is then mixed with equal parts of honey and consumed as a remedy for cold and cough.

All the above mentioned herbs and creepers are grown with a stem cut from the well grown (mother) plant.

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