Punica granatum/Delum

Botanical name-Punica granatum
English name-.Pomegranate
Tamil name-Matulai, Matulam
Snskirt name-Dadima,Lohitapuspaka

An attractive shrub or small tree, to 20 or 30 ft (6 or 10 m) high It is much-branched, more or less spiny, and extremely long-lived . The leaves are evergreen or deciduous They are opposite or in whorls of 5 or 6, short-stemmed ,long and leathery. Flowers are home on the branch tips singly or as many as 5 in a cluster. They are 1 1/4 in (3 cm) wide and characterized by the thick, tubular, red calyx having 5 to 8 fleshy, pointed sepals forming a vase from which emerge the 3 to 7 crinkled, red, white or variegated petals enclosing the numerous stamens. Nearly round,

the fruit, 2 1/2 to 5 in (6.25-12.5 cm) wide, has a tough, leathery skin or rind, basically yellow more or less overlaid with light or deep pink or rich red. The interior is separated by membranous walls and white spongy tissue (rag) into compartments packed with transparent sacs filled with tart, flavorful, fleshy, juicy, red, pink or whitish pulp (technically the aril). In each sac, there is one white or red, angular, soft or hard seed. The seeds represent about 52% of the weight of the whole fruit.


Ayurved usage:
Treatment for:-Worms diseases,Eye infection,Heart diseases ,Oedeama,Cough,Asthma,fever.

Parts used in treatment:-Leaves, Flowers, Barks, Fruits


Propagation:- Seeds

Heen undupialli(Desmodium triflorum)

  A very small perennial herb, 15-45 cm long with numerous, long,, slender, prostrate branches rooting at nodes, clothed with white spreading hairs; leaves small, alternate, stipulate, trifoliate.Three typs of Undupiyaliya .There areMaha Undupiyaliya , Eth Undupialiya,and Heen Undipialiya. All th threetyps are used to produceAyurvedicmedicne. Out of these most important is Heen Undupiyaliya. Some people grow it in order to add beauty to landscapes.It is said that walking on the groves of Undupiyaliya is healthyfor eyes.
It is grown in countries such asJapan , India, Sri Lanka , and Taiwan.It's said that their leaves contain vitamin B. Villagers of sri Lanka usedto prepare Undupiyaliya as Kanjee anddrink it as a herbal drink.
It used to prepare ointments, that used to cure diseases related to head.Medicines prepared from it are used to cure diseases of Infants, Fractureof bons.and to stimulate the production of milk of breast feeding mothers.
It said that Undupiyaliya leaves can be dried and turned in to powder and can be consumed as a beverage similar to tea which is good for diabetes.

Keekirindiya -Eclipta prostrata

 

Scientific name-Eclipta prostrata
Family: Asteraceae
English name: False Daisy 
Sinhala name: Keekirindiya

Tamil name:karippan, kaikeshi, karisalankanni

Sanskirt name :Bhringaraja, Kesharaja

  Leaves are opposite, elliptic to lanceolate either without petioles or with a short petiole, slightly thickened, approximately 1 1/4 to 5 inches long and up to 1 1/4 inches wide, with short, appressed hairs on both surfaces.  Leaf margins have widely spaced teeth.  Stems initially green, becoming reddish brown, freely branched, and capable of rooting at the nodes. Flowers are rounded and consist of small, white ray flowers surrounding greennish disk flowers.
 
Treatment for:-Gastritis,Oedema ,Cough
 
Parts used in treatment:- Whole plant