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Week and Your Plants – December 18 to December 24<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Zodiac Sign <\/strong>:<\/strong> Sagittarius \/ <\/strong>Dhanu<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”1572″ img_size=”medium” onclick=”link_image”][vc_custom_heading text=”Ficus religiosa (\u0d05\u0d30\u0d2f\u0d3e\u0d7d) \u2013 Moraceae” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1489″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n It is often called as sacred fig, an evergreen tree with a wide-spreading crown and caudate leaves. The older tree may buttressed. The tree often starts life as an epiphyte in the branch of a tree. The tree is harvested for food, medicines and various other usesalso spiritually important. This is the species under which the Buddha sat when he achieved Realisation. As such it is a holy tree for Buddhists. It is also a sacred tree for Hindus.It yiledsyields fodder and food for birds and arboreal animals.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”December 18, Monday : Chathayam : Neolamarckia cadamba (\u0d15\u0d26\u0d02\u0d2c\u0d02 ) – Rubiaceae” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1020″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Tall fast-growing trees. Timber and manufacturing paper. Additionally, the sweet-scented flowers are used to make perfume. The paste prepared from the bark of stem and leaf of Kadamba is useful to treat pain, redness and itching due to insect bite.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”December 19, Tuesday : Poororutathi : Mangifera indica (\u0d2e\u0d3e\u0d35\u0d4d\u200c ) – Anacardiaceae” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1022″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n A large evergreen tree of multiple utility. For wood, fruit, medicine and more. The fruits are sweet and delicious with high market demand. An infusion of leaves and bark is used as an astringent, and it is applied as a mouth wash for toothache, sore gums, sore throat, and similar affections. The trees are of significance in spiritual functions.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”December 20, Wednesday : Uthratathi : Borassus flabellifer (\u0d2a\u0d28 ) – Arecaceae” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1024″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n A multipurpose palm for timber, fibre, leaves, fruits etc. The Palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer) leaves are used for thatching, mats, baskets, fans, hats, umbrellas, and as writing material. Tala (Toddy palm) \u2013 Borassus flabellifer is an Ayurvedic plant used for the treatment of general debility. The fermented sap from the tree is popular as toddy or boiled down to make sugar blocks, also known as palm \u2018jaggary. The germinating ones are used for edible purpose.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”December 21, Thursday: Revathy : Madhuca longifolia (\u0d07\u0d32\u0d3f\u0d2a\u0d4d\u0d2a) – Sapotaceae” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1055″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n It is an evergreen multipurpose tree with with dense crown and leaves crowded at branch tips and milky latex, that is very important to the local economy, supplying a range of foods, medicines and other commodities. Flowers and fruits are edible. An oil extracted from the seed is used both as a substitute and an adulterant of ghee. Seeds are used in rheumatism and skin infections.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”December 22, Friday : Aswathy : Strychnos nux-vomica (\u0d15\u0d3e\u0d1e\u0d4d\u0d1e\u0d3f\u0d30\u0d02 ) \u2013 Loganiaceae” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1056″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n It is a medium-sized tree with a dense, rounded crown and opposite shining green leaves which have prominent three to five nerves from base. Fruits with hard rind orange yellow in colour having discoid large grey seeds. It has long been used medicinally, even though it is extremely poisonous in all but the smallest doses. It is a rich source of the alkaloid ‘strychnine’. The seeds are used for the treatment of fever, loss of digestive power, neurological problems, skin problems, cholera etc.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”December 23, Saturday : Bharani : Phyllanthus emblica (\u0d28\u0d46\u0d32\u0d4d\u0d32\u0d3f ) – Phyllanthaceae” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1059″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n The plant is commonly cultivated in the home garden, especially in India, for its edible fruit and as a medicinal plant. Acclaimed as a good source of vitamin C. Fruits are used for the treatment of haemorrhage, diarrhoea, dysentery, anaemia etc.together with Terminalia chebula (Kadukka) and Terminalia bellirica (Thannikka) it constitutes a well-known Ayurvedic formulation Triphala. Timber also used.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”Decmber 24, Sunday : Karthika : Ficus racemosa (\u0d05\u0d24\u0d4d\u0d24\u0d3f) \u2013 Moraceae” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Roboto%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C500%2C500italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1046″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Large deciduous trees with rough leaves and milky latex. The distinctive feature of the tree is the red, furry fruits (syconium) in short clusters, which directly grow out of the trunk of the tree. Fruits are edible. Stem bark, exudate and buds are medicinally important. 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