Retrieving the lost texts..---organ shape plant

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It would be interesting to know the plant shaped like a tooth.

Someone said that in an ancient tibetan book it is written about the plant that

made to regrow teeth , difficult to find now, maybe not impossible.....

Merevita

 

> Another facet of ayurveda exists where the medicinal nature of

> plants is deduced from their shape and similiarity to various

> organs in the human body. Like Brahmi, shaped like the human

> brain, Kalmegh, shaped as the liver, etc.

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ayurveda, merevita <merevita> wrote:

> It would be interesting to know the plant shaped like a tooth.

> Someone said that in an ancient tibetan book it is written about

the plant that made to regrow teeth , difficult to find now, maybe

not impossible.....

> Merevita

 

Dear Merevita,

 

I too would love to hear more about these. I believe God never wanted

to hide the medicinal properties of plants and therefore tried to

express them in their shapes and functions. I have some more

similiarities;

 

1 Walnut - Brain

2 Apple - heart

3 Bananna - sexual organ

4 Pears - female reproduction

5 Almond - eye

 

You also may have observed how the animal kingdom too knows about

herbs. In my childhood days I had observed the fight between a

mongoose and a cobra. The mongoose would rush away everytime it was

bitten and then reappear to fight after some time. When I asked my

uncle about this he said the mongoose knew the herb to antidote the

snake venom and was rushing away to chew the leaves. Similiarly I

have observed my neighbour's dog often chewing on certain plants, my

neighbour says it chews on leaves when it is ill. Even trees seem to

know what shrubs to allow to grow near them.

 

I have always loved nature and looked forward to copies

of "Nature", "Life" and the "National Geographic" while I could still

afford them. When you are alone in a forest, you can percieve the

presence of Mother Nature. Once when I was lost in the forests of

Sikkim I did not panic and quite enjoyed the solitude before straying

into a streamside village.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.