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activities 4 U

“Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians”- Bulgarian proverb
Shivangi Shukla, X, Navy Children School, Chanakyapuri, New delhi

NATUre’S MIrACle drAW A herBAl leAf

india is a land of herbal medicines. given below are Choose any one herbal plant you are familiar with
some jumbled words, can you guess the names of and draw its leaf. Also write two sentences about
these miraculous gifts of nature? the plant.

1. DwhsagaaNah___________________________
2. lTirhaPa_________________________________
3. hiKaiaKs_________________________________ _________________________________________
4. JiThMNaahs______________________________
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5. uNaiPD__________________________________
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IdeNTIfy herBAl leAveS herBAl GArdeNS IN INdIA
1. herbal garden of the ayurvedic Medical College of
sampurnanand sanskrit university, Varanasi
2. National institute of unani Medicine, bengaluru
3. ausadhiya Poudh Vatica / Model Medicinal Plants
garden, Pantnagar
4. azad hitech herbal garden, Kanpur
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5. botanical garden, Chandigarh
6. Dhanvantari and sanjivani herbal garden, Junagadh
7. institute of himalayan bio-resource Technology
(Csir), Palampur
8. Jawaharlal Nehru govt. Medicinal botanical garden,
gandhinagar
________________ __________________ 9. Medicinal Plant garden, Jabalpur
10. North-east ecological Park, Jorhat.
There are also other government botanical gardens all
MAke A herBAl pOTpOUrrI across the country.
What you’ll need:
1. Drawstring bag made of muslin, cotton, silk or I CUre, I heAl, ANd I AM SACred....
lace
2. Aromatic leaves and flowers (like roses and I beautify the aangan of almost every Indian
lavender)
3. Dried herbs household. I purify the air. I symbolize peace,
4. Herbal oil piety and virtue. I am used to cure digestive
5. For the bulk add cinnamon sticks, dried leaves ailments and skin problems. Who am I?
and dried flower pods
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Background Illustration by: Shaweta, X, Spring Dale Senior School, Amritsar

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