Rare herbs fast dwindling
Minna Zutshi
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, July 15
Rare herbs and medicinal plants that once flourished in our country are fast dwindling. Rajesh Kapoor, a vaidya from Solan, Himachal Pradesh, who has more than 30 years of experience in herbal plant remedies, said modern lifestyle with its ascent on the use of plastics and chemicals, was sounding the death knell for these medicinal herbs.
Right from clothes to shoes to cosmetics to daily-use articles, plastic has permeated every walk of life, said Kapoor, who claimed to have cured many diseases with lifestyle modifications and changes in food habits. Urging people to shun the use of melamine dinnerware, he said plastics and chemicals were wreaking havoc with our ecology as well as impacting our health.
Kapoor’s talk focused on traditional healing and health practices of India. Delivering a lecture on “Managing Health without Medicine: Healthy lifestyle and food”, he said it had become a fad to ignore time-tested tips on food and holistic living. The lecture was organised by the Ludhiana chapter of the Kheti Virasat Mission and Kudrati Kisan Haat.
Checklist
- Discard detergents. Use garbage enzyme.
- Negative emotions such as jealousy, anger, hatred, bitterness are toxic. They deplete your energy. Shun negative emotions
- Grow native trees.
- Perform agnihotra (homa). Its ash has curative properties
- There is no harm in being open minded about the medicinal properties of cow dung cakes
- It is a good idea to take tap into traditional wisdom for food and culinary advice
- Maintain your affinity with Earth. The more your children live in sanitised environment the more the possibility of low immunity
- Shun Genetically Modified (GM) food
