Immunity booster plants – Giloy, Ashwagandha, Parijat

The plant is a glabrous climbing shrub found throughout India, typically growing in deciduous and dry forests. The leaves are heart-shaped. The succulent bark is creamy white to grey in colour, with deep clefts spotted with lenticels. It puts out long, slender aerial roots, and is often grown on mango or neem trees. Flowers are yellow, growing in lax racemes from nodes on old wood. Fruits are drupes, turning red when ripe.

PariJat -Harsringar Parijat flowers have four to eight petals arranged above a vibrant orange tube in a pinwheel pattern. These highly fragrant flowers open at night spreading their fragrance in the surrounding area with an intensely sweet floral aroma. These flowers blossom between August to December.

• The juice of its leaves is bitter and saline in taste and provides effective relief in the treatment of several types of inflammation and fever including malaria, intermittent fever, common cough and cold.
• It also provides an assured remedy for various body disorders ranging from common cough and cold to arthritis and sciatica.
• The juice of its leaves, when mixed with a little sugar, is good medicine for the treatment of stomach ailments of children.

Ashwagandha – Withania Somnifera –

Withania somnifera, known commonly as ashwagandha, Indian ginseng, poison gooseberry, or winter cherry, is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family. Several other species in the genus Withania are morphologically similar. It is used as a herb in Ayurvedic medicine.

• Multiple studies have shown positive effects in reducing physiological and psychological stress as well as restoring and increasing energy levels. More than one study had findings showing a significant improvement in both cardiovascular and respiratory endurance.
• In Ayurveda, the berries and leaves are applied externally to tumours, tubercular glands, carbuncles, and ulcers. The roots are used to prepare the herbal remedy ashwagandha, which has been traditionally used to treat various symptoms and conditions.
• What you get
  

  Name of plant	Quantity
  Giloy plant – Tinospora cordifolia, Gulvel	1
  Ashwagandha Plant, Withania Somnifera	1
  Parijat Plant | Harshringar | Night flowering Jasmine, Shiuli	1