WILD FLOWERS
Some of the wild flowers which grow round Srinagar and their indigenous use. WILD FLOWERS
| Kashmiri name | Isband |
| English name | Rue |
| Family | Malvaceae |
| Locality | Malla Khah |
Uses-It has a white flower. The ashes of this plan used in washing the hair and the leaves are fatal to bugs. The seeds are burnt on wedding days to avert the evil eye.
| Kashmiri name | Sotsal |
| English name | Mallow |
| Family | Malvaceae |
| Locality | Waste lands; Also cultivated |
Uses-It is a pot-herb. The seeds are used in decoction (sherbat). The root has a lubricating value and is used in anaemia.
| Kashmiri name | Bhanga |
| English name | Hemp |
| Family | Labiatae |
| Locality | River banks |
Uses-It grows mostly above pampor on both the banks of the Vetasta. Its fibre is used for making ropes and for sankering boats. The cheras, an intoxicating drug, is made from this plant in three ways: 1. The live plant is rubbed by hands and sticky substance is collected.
2. The pollen dust.
3. The dry plant is pounded and sifted. The material is placed in the maize-cob sheath, or paper or birch bark and well-wrapped in rush and baked in hot ashes. It is then smoked mixed with tobacco.
| Kashmiri name | Tropor |
| English name | |
| Family | Labiatae |
| Locality | Waste lands |
Uses-It bears a white flower. It is boiled in kanja and applied to a rheumatic limb.
| Kashmiri name | |
| English name | |
| Family | Labiatae |
| Locality | Shankarachar |
Uses-The flowers which are on a raceme are white. The flowering season is August, September. The leaves have delicious fragrance.
| Kashmiri name | Sholur |
| English name | |
| Family | Labiatae |
| Locality | Hari Parbat and Shankarachar |
Uses-It has bluish white flowers.
| Kashmiri name | Wena |
| English name | Horse-mint |
| Family | Labiatae |
Uses-The leaves have an acute fragrance and are used as flowers in worship by the Hindus. Mixed with salt and chilli, it is eaten as chetni, and is considered very stimulating.
| Kashmiri name | Midal |
| English name | |
| Family | Labiatae |
| Locality | Shankarachar and sandy soil |
Uses-It has grey-white flowers and sweet fragrance. The leaves are used in worship by Hindus. A decoction of leaves is given to a person fallen from height.
| Kashmiri name | Jawen |
| English name | Thyme |
| Family | Labiatae |
| Locality | Hari Parbat, Shankarachar and sandy soil |
Uses-The plant bears pink flowers in clusters. Their jam is an excellent stomach tonic. It is also put in Kanja (sadurkonz). It is good for weak sight, stomach and liver troubles. It can be used to flavour vegetable or fish.
| Kashmiri name | Tethawen |
| English name | |
| Family | Compositae |
| Locality | Malla Khah |
Uses-The leaves are made into a pill as a medicine for worms. It is also used to protect clothes and paper against fish insects.
| Kashmiri name | Kond posh |
| English name | Thistle |
| Family | Compositae |
| Locality | Gardens and waste lands |
Uses-It is a thistle with a crimson flower. Its root dug in autumn mixed with cane-sugar, half and half, is taken as medicine for neural diseases.
| Kashmiri name | Maidan hand Exglish name Dandelion |
| Family | Compositae |
| Locality | Outside Srinagar |
Uses-It has a yellow flower. It is a potherb. When dried, it is well cooked and applied to a sprained limb.
| Kashmiri name | Won hand |
| English name | Chicory |
| Family | Compositae |
Uses-It has a beautiful blue flower. It is used as a vegetable and is given to women after child-birth.
| Kashmiri name | Datur |
| English name | |
| Family | Solanaceae |
| Locality | Waste lands |
Uses-It bears a white trumpetlike flower which is highly prized for uses in worship. The seeds which have a narcotic effect are found in a thorny capsule. The leaf, lubricated with warm rape-seed oil, is applied to a diseased eye.
| Kashmiri name | Gandalun |
| English name | Daphne |
| Family | Thymelaceae |
| Locality | Shankarachar |
Uses-It is a shrub bearing creamy white flowers. The leaves are used for some neural diseases and nausea.
| Kashmiri name | Mohora Kach |
| English name | |
| Family | Umbelliferae |
| Locality | Waste lands |
Uses-It has white flowers. The seeds are used as medicine.
| Kashmiri name | Phal gasa |
| English name | Milfoil |
| Family | Umbelliferae |
| Locality | Round fields |
Uses-It has white flowers. The leaves are used in preparing medicine for stomach affections and the root for toothache.
| Kashmiri name | Phakazur |
| English name | Fennel |
| Family | Umbelliferae |
| Locality | In fields (rare) |
Uses-It is a beautiful plant. In some European countries it is used as a spice. 'As much as eight and a half pounds of fennel was brought for King Edward I's household for one month's supply'.
| Kashmiri name | Oboj |
| English name | Dock |
| Family | Polygonaceae |
| Locality | In fidds and gardens |
Uses-It is a potherb. It has a little sour taste. It is cooked widh or without fishes. The root pounded and mixed with oil or ghee is used for boils.
| Kashmiri name | Chanch |
| English name | Raspberry |
| Family | Rosaceae |
| Locality | Shankarachar, Zaberwon |
Uses-It is a shrub. The fruit is edible. It is good for blood.
| Kashmiri name | Saza posh |
| English name | Holly hock |
| Family | Malvaceae |
| Locality | Gardens |
Uses-The flower, along widh dle wheat bran, is used in washing the feet of a sick person. The seeds form the chief ingredient in decoction of sherbat. The root has a lubricating effect used for anaemia.
| Kashmiri name | Soai |
| English name | Stinging nettle |
| Family | Urticeae |
| Locality | Waste lands |
Uses-The leaves are pounded and applied to wounds. The root boiled in tea and sugar is believed to cure malaria. In old schools (maktabs) this plant was thrashed on the naked boys as a punishment for bad behaviour.
| Kashmiri name | Ganhar, lisa |
| English name | Amaranth |
| Family | |
| Locality | Fields, also cultivated |
Uses-The seeds are eaten mixed with sugar. The ashes of this plant are used as saz, in soap preparation.
| Moisture | 19.43 % |
| Ash | 3.19 |
| Protein | 11.50 |
| Carbohydrates | 66.62 |
| Fat | 4.45 |
| Fibre | 2.1 |
| Kashmiri name | Sebargi |
| English name | Sorrel |
| Family | Geraminaceae |
| Locality | Fields |
Uses-It has a yellow flower. The leaves are used in chetni. It is good for eye-sight. A medicine for eyes prepared from the juice of the plant.
| Kashmiri name | |
| English name | |
| Family | Liliaceae |
| Locality | Malla khah |
Uses-It has a yellow flower like a star. It is one of the first flowers to bloom.
| Kashmiri name | Vai |
| English name | Sweet flag |
| Family | Araideae |
| Locality | In swampy places outside Srinagar |
Uses-It is used on New Year's day. It is good for memory. Jam is prepared from it.
| Kashmiri name | Kambai |
| English name | |
| Family | Solanaceae |
| Locality | In waste lands |
Uses-It has a white flower. The seeds are used in decoctions. The juice of the plant mixed with butter is applied to a swollen limb.
| Kashmiri name | Kralamond |
| English name | Shepherd's purse |
| Family | Cruciferae |
| Locality | In all places |
Uses-It has a white flower. The Plant is eaten raw.
| Kashmiri name | Bolar kon |
| English name | Mullein |
| Family | Scrophularineae |
| Locality | In waste lands |
Uses-It has a light yellow flower. The leaves mixed with oil or butter are used for itches.
| Kashmiri name | Wan palak |
| English name | Goose foot |
| Family | Chenopodiaceae |
| Locality | Shankarachar |
Uses-The fruit and leaves are eaten.
| Kashmiri name | Kava dach |
| English name | |
| Family | Berberideae |
| Locality | Shankarachar, Zaberwon |
Uses-It is a shrub. The fruit is eaten and is a blood purifier. The root is used in preparing medicine for eyes. It is said to be a remedy for cholera.
| Kashmiri name | Shahtar |
| English name | |
| Family | Fumariacea |
| Locality | In fields |
Uses-The juice of the plant is taken internally along with whey to give a cooling effect.
| Kashmiri name | Krats |
| English name | |
| Family | |
| Locality | In fields |
Uses-In spring the leaves are eaten as a vegetable and are supposed good for eye-sight.
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