Recuperating Blossoms: Flowers Offered At The Feet Of Divine Are A Dose Of Wellness
By Ratna Rajaiah
On the off chance that a bloom is utilized as a part of love, it beyond any doubt has restorative esteem, says the creator, and offers the astonishing recuperating properties of three blossoms.
India is home to an expected 18,000 types of blooming plants, at any rate. What's more, as per Wikipedia "in excess of 3,000 Indian plant species (have been) formally recorded as having extraordinary therapeutic potential."
We realize that now since we approach an enormous battery of modern advancements to identify the 'miniaturized scale est' of smaller scale phytochemicals. Be that as it may, the antiquated experts of Ayurveda had quite recently their fingers, nose, eyes, maybe mouth, and a mortar and pestle to recognize these substance mixes.
It couldn't have been much else besides that since Ayurveda is said to go back to the Indus Valley civilisation. Ayurveda's ancientness is additionally shown by the specify of Sushruta the Mahabharata, the child of sage Vishwamitra, and for the individuals who didn't have an inkling, was viewed as the dad of Indian medical procedure and a pioneer in dentistry, plastic medical procedure, gynecology and obstetrics. Plus, he is the creator of one of the two primary foundational writings of Ayurveda, the Sushruta Samhita, which lists 1,120 illnesses, 120 careful instruments, 300 surgeries and no less than 700 therapeutic plants, including the lotus and the champak as water purifiers.
Things being what they are, how could he know these actualities? Or then again besides, how did Charaka the court doctor of King Kanishka of the second century, BCE, realize that "sugarcane squeeze that is eaten through the mouth expands semen". He is the creator or rather the reviver and editorial manager of a prior content by Agnivesa (1000 BCE), the Charaka Samhita, the other Ayurvedic 'Book of scriptures'.
These inquiries stay unanswered. Maybe, the hypothesis that Sushruta's preceptor was a manifestation or relative of Dhanvantri, the doctors of the divine beings, can be in this way ascribed to the awesome source. We don't have the foggiest idea.
In any case, there is one other way, beyond any doubt fire way that I unearthed of knowing whether a blossom has restorative properties. On the off chance that it is an offering to a divine being or a goddess, you can wager your keep going phtyochemical on it to announce that it contains therapeutic properties. Also, that holds useful for some other offering like natural products, vegetables, herbs, flavors and so forth (think banana, coconut, turmeric, sugarcane juice...)
To make my point, I display only three flowers....
Devi's Favorite
Swargapavargada shuddha japapushpa nibhakrutih…
The 147th stotra of the Lalitha Sahasranama generally deciphers as:
"She who gives the interminable euphoria of paradise
She who is unadulterated,
She whose shading is of the idea of japa blooms… "
Japa meaning petition, thus it is nevertheless regular that the japapushpa (japakusuma, japaphool) is one of the essential blossoms of love for the Devi (particularly in her symbols as Durga and Kali) to such an extent that it is additionally called deviphool. The blossom is likewise said in the Navagraha Stotra to Suryadeva, where he is depicted in the main line as "Japakusuma sankasham" or "as brilliant as the shade of the japa bloom" and is a most loved offering to Lord Ganesh in Maharashtra)
Us common, Sanskrit-tested society know it as the hibiscus, the natural name being Hibiscus Rosa Sinesis.
Furthermore, among all the recuperating powers that the Devi has favored her most loved bloom with, there is a large group of other exceptional ones that makes the hibiscus a lady's closest companion. In this way, for a considerable length of time, not simply in India, but rather numerous different parts of the world, the hibiscus bloom is utilized to treat gynecological issues. In China, Peru, Malaysia and Indonesia it is utilized as an emmenagogue (a substance that fortifies or increments menstrual stream); in Bangladesh, Trinidad and Vietnam to control the menstrual cycle and in India, to treat these issues and that's only the tip of the iceberg. In any case, maybe, a standout amongst the most imperative nature of the bloom is its utilization for quite a long time as a female prophylactic. It is currently being explored if there is a plausibility to utilize it as a female natural oral prophylactic!
Obviously, in Ayurveda, the bloom's pharmacopeia (a book of therapeutic medications, its impact and bearings for their utilization) broadens much past on the grounds that it is additionally used to treat hypertension, fevers, urinary issues, bronchitis and venereal infections.
Indeed, even without any of these issues, simply tasting some hibiscus tea is an extraordinary wellspring of sustenance, as it contains beta-carotene, flavanoids and also calcium, phosphorus, press, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin C.
Be that as it may, before you make hibiscus tea your every day cuppa, be careful. Since in antiquated Egypt, hibiscus blooms were related with desire and it was trusted that tea made with red hibiscus blossoms could initiate "lascivious yearnings" in ladies. Therefore, for a considerable length of time, Egyptian ladies were prohibited to drink hibiscus tea! What's more, in Kuwait, it is as yet considered as a love potion...
Heavenly Make-up
The minor, tubular orange stalks of this perfect little sprout have been generally utilized as a color to shading silk, the sari enhancing Goddess Saraswati amid Saraswati Puja in Bengal, and to shading the robes of Buddhist priests – an old practice.
In any case, that is only a couple of the perfect affiliations this bloom has. Of the numerous stories of cause related in the puranas, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the most well known one is that it was one of the 'kalpavrikshas' (a desire satisfying perfect tree) that rose in the Sagar Manthan. Yet, Lord Indra – and all the more critically, Indrani, his significant other – were both so stricken by this tree and its blossoms that the Lord of the Devas quickly sent it back to paradise.
In any case, he hadn't represented that heavenly evil producer, Narada, who instantly went to Dwarka with the blossoms and offered them to Lord Krishna, to see which of his spouses he'd offer them to. Rukmini was the fortunate one however just for a brief timeframe in light of the fact that Narada promptly raced to Satyabhama with the story. The conjugal conflict that took after drove the hapless Krishna to race to Swarga with Satyabhama, take the tree back to earth. Be that as it may, the issue of keeping two spouses glad remained. Be that as it may, Krishna thought of the astute arrangement of planting the tree in Satyabhama's garden such that huge numbers of the blooming branches hung over into Rukmini's connecting garden.
Furthermore, they all lived joyfully ever after...
Furthermore, now Parijata. English names: night jasmine, coral jasmine, Indian coral. Plant name : Nyctanthes Arbortristis. This is known as the night-blossoming tree of distress in light of the fact that the blooms sprout amid the night and by the morning, the tree has shed them all like such huge numbers of cream-and-orange tears. (The puranic story of these 'tears' is identified with a princess named Parijataka, who is dismissed in adoration by the Sun God, however I'll spare that bit for the book).
In Hindi, it is called Harsingar – har meaning Shiva or Vishnu and singar meaning enrichment or make-up. So the bloom is a staple among puja blossoms and considered so sacrosanct that it is the main bloom that might be picked off the ground and offered to the divine beings!
Furthermore, by and by, my hypothesis holds - a blossom so honored must be a great healer, which it is.
All aspects of the parijata tree has some restorative utilize. In Sushruta Samhita, an arrangement of the bark is prescribed for different eye ailments. The leaves are utilized to treat a large group of sicknesses including fevers, urinary disarranges, sciatica, joint pain, and as a diuretic or laxative to oust intestinal worms in youngsters.
Also, the blossoms? I assume it must be informed that it is a heart tonic, blood purifier, to regard draining heaps and as a stomachic and starter. (Maybe that is the reason the Bengalis make pakoras (bora) out of it and the Assamese flavor everything from pulao and curries to out and out bubbled rice with it!) But what more likely than not charmed the divine beings and keeps on beguiling people for a huge number of years is the aroma of this bloom. We have two trees in our garden and when in sprout and I advance out into the garden after haziness, I am all of a sudden encompassed by a fragile billow of its scent. I stop in and inside seconds so does my brain, filled just with the cool night air, weighed down with the fragrant breath of a thousand parijata blossoms. Both Ayurveda (like the Charaka Samhita)and present day science perceive the beneficial outcomes of such scents – life span, mental revival, enhanced focus, improved memory and rebuilding of resistance smothered by pressure.
I mean such a great amount of goodness in such a small flower....
Divine Exile
Would a blossom that has been restricted from use in revere be called hallowed?
Decide for yourself. This blossom, specified in the puranas, is offered in love to Lord Ganesh and the Devi, and in the Lalitha Sahasranama Phala Sruti, it is said that if this bloom is offered while droning it, "the aftereffects of such a love are indefinable even by Mahesvara." truth be told, some say that Lord Shiva himself wore it on his head until the clash of matchless quality between Lord Braham and Lord Vishnu, where Lord Shiva played the middle person. At the point when, on Brahma's command, the blossom bore false observer for him, Shiva was enraged to the point that he reviled that it will never be utilized as a part of love again. Be that as it may, maybe, even the powerful Maheshwara couldn't overlook its sublime scent since he yielded a little and enabled the bloom to be offered to him just on Maha Shivaratri. To such an extent that just before that day, the blossom, as of now an irregularity, offers for more than Rs 350, a sprout in a few sections of Orissa! (Unexpectedly, the Ganjam area in Orissa grows 85-90 for every penny of this bloom.)
In this way, I say "sacrosanct". Sanskrit name: Ketaki. Natural name: Pandanus odoratissimus.
In Hindi, it is called kewra or kewda and if that sounds natural, it is on the grounds that it goes into the making of the widely acclaimed kewra aroma, kewra water, which
Source : swarajyamag.com