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Showing posts with label medicinal herb garden seeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicinal herb garden seeds. Show all posts

Monday, April 22, 2019

Demonstration Herbal garden

Cultivatingmedicinal plants ensures that they are preserved for your own use and for future generations. Many fruits provide medicine as well as food. These include banana, pineapple, mulberry, Ginkgo biloba, Apple, Apricort, Kiwi,Walnut passion fruit and Grapes. Food plants that also provide medicine include Onion, Garlic, Groundnut, Cabbage, Chilli, Coffee, Pumpkin, Sunflower, Sweet potato, Rice, Maize, Ginger, Black pepper and Sesame.
Other plants are grown just for their medicinal qualities and are essential in a medicinal garden. The range of plants will vary according to country but may include Milk Thistle seeds,Silybum marianum seed , Thymus serpyllum, Melia azedarach,Vitex negundo, Fumaria officinalis, Malva sylvestris,
Paonea Officinalis, Paonea emodi, Cuscuta reflexa, Cordia latifolia, Pinus longifolia,  
Pinus wallichiana, Eclipta prostrate, Ruta Graveolens, Hyoscyamus niger, Abutilon indicum,
Berberis aristata, Valeriana wallichina, Nardostachys jatamansi, Ziziphus jujube,
Polygonum aviculare, Abelmoschus esculentus, Acacia speciosa, Brassica juncea,
Lactuca sativa, Parmelia perlata, Glycyrrhiza glabra, Mentha arvensis, Argemone Mexicana,
Pastinaca sativa, Anacyclus pyrethrum, Punica granatum, Plantago ovate, Mentha spicata,
Centella asiatica, Salvia haematodes, Rheum rhabarbarum,Shorea robusta,
Sapindus mukorossi ,Urtica dioica, Rhus soriaria, Helianthus annuus, Berberis lyceum,
Juglans regia, Juglans nigra, Lupinus albus, Withania somnifera, Indigofera tinctoria,Indigo,  
Achillea millefolium,Nigella sativa,Kalonji seeds, Asparagus officinalis, Mint,Mintha spp.,
Mountain Mint-Pycnanthemum pilosum, Nicotiana seeds-Nicotiana rustica,
Plantain seeds, Plantago major,  Lemon balm seed,Melissa officinalis, Hyssop officinalis-Hyssop seeds, Hops vines, Cascade,Humulus lupulus,Mount hood, Great Mullein seed, Elderberry, Sambucus spp, Carthamus Tinctorius, False Saffron, Ferula asafetida
Ferula Asafoetida,Ferula jaeschkeana, Gul-e-Dawoodi, Anise hyssop seeds, Agastache foeniculum, Artemisia seeds, Wormwood, Artemisia absinthium…

Make sure that overenthusiastic collection does not mean these plants die out in the wild.
Contour hedges
Before you plant medicinal plants, plant hedges along the contour lines to prevent soil erosion, fertilise the soil, and provide shade. The lines should be 2–4 metres apart on sloping ground and 5 metres apart on level ground. Useful species include…
·         lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus), a medicinal plant
·         leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) a legume which improves soil fertility
·         Cassia spectabilis which grows readily from metre-long cuttings
·         pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan)
·         moringa (Moringa oleifera) which produces edible leaves and beans which are rich in protein, vitamins and minerals.
Every year at the start of the rainy season, trim the hedges back to a height of about one metre, and work the leaves into the soil.
Trees
Plant fruit trees round the edges or alongside the garden. Depending on the soil, climate and altitude, include mango, tamarind, orange, papaya, guava and avocado trees. All these fruits are rich in vitamins A and C.
Plant neem trees if the climate allows. They have many medicinal, insecticidal and other properties. They grow well, even in dry climates.
Planting methods
If possible, make two gardens – a demonstration garden and a production garden. For the production garden, it is useful to establish a nursery to propagate seeds and small cuttings. It is better to sow in alternate lines or to mix up the various medicinal plants, as they would grow in the wild. In this way the plants provide shade for each other, and it is possible to reap a harvest in the dry season as well.
Learn from experience whether the plants grow best in full sun or in the shade, and whether they need a lot of water or a little. Observe carefully where they seem to flourish in the wild.
Demonstration garden
Set aside a small area as a demonstration garden which you can use for teaching purposes with medical staff, traditional healers, school children and teachers. Plant examples of each plant known to be used in traditional medicine. Place this garden near the road – for example near the entrance to a clinic or hospital – so everyone who passes can see it.
Label your plants
In the demonstration garden, give each plant a label, on which you write both the local name, the scientific name and its uses. Old iron sheets and plastic buckets can be cut up to make useful permanent labels. Write with a permanent marker. The scientific name is important, as visitors from another country – or maybe even from the next village – may call plants by quite different local names.
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