Bamboo- The Virtue Rich Wonder Plant & Homoeopathy of AYUSH

Since ancient times, like the coconut plant of which all the portions of the tree are useful, people in India have been using bamboo tree in its entirety. I distinctly remember eating ‘Henua’ & ‘Kardi’ (the dried & fresh bamboo shoots as called in western part of Odisha, a state in eastern part of India) since childhood as part of my regular diet. Currently, nutritional science term bamboo as a super food. Bamboo shoots, leaves, seeds have been found to be rich in amino acids & this ascribes to the lead author’s better health conditions currently in the fag-end of the fifth decade of his life. Bamboo is actually grass & needs lots of water to grow. That’s why it grows abundantly in the North Eastern part of India. Furnitures, household items, ethanol production, use in agricultural fencing, making huts, cleaning drains, setting the electric wires in order, a tool to reach higher places for painting, glass washing are some of the parts of the endless lists for which bamboo is used. The article links bamboo with Homoeopathy of AYUSH as Homoeopathy has a broad spectrum medicine prepared from bamboo. Thus, the multi dimensional value of bamboo adds one therapeutic aspect through its multi faceted use.