Month: November 2020
Tomato Halwa (Sweet dish or Fudge)
Tomato Halwa is a lycopene enriched, no artificial sugar added halwa (fudge) made from tomatoes and fruits. Lycopene is an antioxidant which belongs to the carotenoid family of plant nutrients.
Sivagamasundhari Sikamani /
November 9, 2020
Book review: Indigenous Food Systems, Concepts, Cases and Conversations. Pricilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla, Eds. 2020. Canadian Scholars, Toronto.
The book focused on First Nations food systems within the political boundaries of today’s Canada, although the editors, who were also contributors, admitted that other Indigenous groups food systems also deserve careful attention and celebration.
Verena Kulak /
November 9, 2020
The Spiritual Significance of Medicinal Plants in Traditional Healing: My Personal Experience
What does it mean to heal? Common definitions refer to healing as restoring one’s health and making them well again. But how? How does one go about the process of healing?
Catriona Downie /
November 9, 2020
The Fascinating World of Plants
This quiz is not just a set of questions and answers or a small collection of facts which needs to be learnt but is about going a little beyond our regular knowledge and learning more about plants.
Dr. Pooja Gupta /
November 7, 2020
Purple passionflower (Passiflora incarnata); an important plant in ethnomedicine
Passiflora incarnata, or purple passionflower, is one of about 520 species in the passionflower family worldwide
Andrea J Moreau /
November 7, 2020
Black Cumin: A miracle herb
“In the black seed is the medicine [to cure] every disease except death”–Arab Proverb
Emily McFaul /
November 7, 2020
The mythological connection between man and plants: from lores to drugs
A few plant genus/species which have a special place in collective beliefs are highlighted in this paper with reference to their medicinal values.
Anurabh Chakravarty and R. Gnanam /
November 7, 2020
