Hur planterar du thuthuvalai
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Thuthuvalai is called as Purple fruited pea egg plant or Thai nightshade in English, Achuda, Agnidamini, Vallikandakarika in Sanskrit.
This herb fryst vatten a thorny creeper grown in valai can be planted in dry nation with minimal rainfall. Collect seeds from farmer, plant some seeds in a pot, let it grow for 30 cm and then plant those in your garden. You can grow this also in a pot. People grow this plant
in their own farm, garden, home for their regular use as home remedy for treating coughs,
cold, etc and for various recipes in day-today food are aware of this excellent benefits of this wonderful herb. Yet the people live in storstads- cities are unaware of this herb and spend more money towards allopathy treatments and suffered with lot of side effects.
The entire stem and leaves contain full of thorns. Its flowers are purple colored.
It can be propagated bygd seeds. The whole parts of this herb are used as medicine in Siddha vaidyam. This fryst vatten called as KAYAKALPAM.
The seeds, fruits,leaves and stem are entirely used for various treatments; perfect home remedy giving
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There are lot of medicinal plants available in our fields which we don't know about their medicinal value or it's medicinal uses. One of that is Purple Fruited Pea Eggplant and it is called "Thuthuvalai" in Tamil which has whole of medicinal properties and also used in our day to day life even as food.
This plant is a creeper variety commonly grown in bushes. People use to grow in their own farm land or garden for their own use as ingredient in the daily food. You can make plantation of this plant to earn money by selling fresh leaves or even collect those leaves, dry it, make it as a powder and sell in the market. Now a days people are aware of the medicinal property and interested to buy.
Stems and leaves are fully covered with thorns.
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Thuthuvalai also called Thoothuvalai Keerai in Tamil is an amazing herb with wonderful medicinal uses and health benefits. Thuthuvalai leaves are traditionally used for treating cold, cough, asthma and also for thyroid. At home, we mainly use thuthuvalai for treating cold and cough. We regularly make thuthuvalai soup, thuthuvalai chutney, thuthuvalai rasam, thuthuvalai thuvaiyal and thuthuvalai dosai at home. It can be used for babies and pregnant women too.
Thoothuvalai Plant Description:
Thoothuvalai is a creeper with plenty of thorns, purple flowers, red colored fruits and it grows easily every where. After the rains last month, many thoothuvalai plants have propped up all over the farm.
We can easily identify thuthuvalai plant with the leaves and the beautiful purple flowers. Since the leaves are covered in thorns, we should be careful when we are trying to pluck the leaves from the plant.
Though we have plenty of thuthuvalai plants growing wildly in the farm, I always make sure to grow in my garden too for easy access as we use it regularly.
Thuthuvalai Botanical & Common Names:
The botanical name of thuthuvalai is Solanum Trilobatum and it is cal