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Eleusine Coracana
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| Common Name :
Finger Millet, African Millet.
Part Used : Grains
Habitat : It is widely cultivated throughout south India.
Product offered : Seeds
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| Uses :
The grains are sweet, acrid, bitter, astringent, cooling, diuretic, depurative and tonic. They are useful in vitiated conditions of pitta and kapha, burning sensation, hyperdipsia, strangury, renal and vesical calculi, leprosy, pneumonia, smallpox, skin diseases and general debility.
Finger millet contains 6-11% protein content. It contains fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, nicotinic acid, tryptophane, lysine, histidine, arginine, cystine and methionine.
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| Ephedra Vulgaris : |
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Botanical Name : Ephedra Vulgaris
Family Name : Ephedraceae
Common Name : Ephedra, Evulgaris, Somlatha
Part Used : Dried Branch
Habitat : Drier regions of temperate zone and alpine himalayas at altitude
of 2700m to 3600m.
Product offered : Wood |
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| Uses : It is stomachic, alterative and diuretic. Alkaloid called "Ephedrine" which helps in controlling asthma. It is widely used for acute muscular and bronchial asthma. It is also used as a headache reliever.
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