Commonly known as Kilmora in Uttarakhand, the plant itself is a treasure of many medicinal properties, whose botanical name is 'Barbaris aristata', about 450 species of this plant found at an altitude of 1400 to 2000 meters in Uttarakhand. The entire plant of Kilmora is rich in medicinal properties, it is found in America including Nepal, Bhutan, Southwest China including India, everything of Kilmora root, stem, leaf, flower, and fruit is very useful, the matter of minerals. In this case, it is found in protein 3.3 percent, fiber 3.12 percent, carbohydrates 17.39 mg per hundred grams, vitamin C 6.9 mg per hundred grams, and magnesium 8.4 mg per hundred grams.
Flowering starts in March-April in Kilmora plant, usually two to three meters in height, its fruits are sour and sweet, Kilmora plant has anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, antiviral and antiviral. Due to the presence of bacterial elements, now anti-oxidants are being formulated into the drugs from Kilmora, for disease like cancer, it is mostly used in the treatment of diabetes, the root of Kilmoda is very effective in diabetes. Apart from this, it is also beneficial in the treatment of fever, jaundice, sugar, eye diseases, even a natural color was prepared from Kilmora, which was used for coloring clothes, about 22 species of Kilmora were found in Uttarakhand.
people in Uttarakhand have been using Kilmora as an Ayurvedic medicine since ancient times, but due to excessive exploitation and absence of protection, the species of Kilmora is on the verge of extinction. In view of the medicinal properties of Kilmora, the Department of Biotechnology of the University of Kumaon researched it and developed an anti-diabetic drug, after successful testing, also obtained a patent from the International Patent Center of the US, University of Kumaon. This is the first international patent.
In Uttarakhand, abundant wild fruits with a lot of medicinal properties are found abundance, which the local people are using as medicinal form centuries, one such fruit is Timul. It is neither produced nor cultivated. It grows automatically under agroforestry, white-colored milk-like fluid comes out from the tree of Timul, if anyone pricks the thorn, If you put its milk on the place then after a while the thorn can be easily removed, a special thing of Timul is that the flower does not appear before its fruit, according to legend it is said that if anyone sees flower appears on Timul he must be Lucky. Botanists believe that its fruit is actually its flower, it is a flower that used to be closed from all sides but there are seeds inside it and some small insects go inside it to perform pollination and help to ripening seeds. The tree of Timul is of medium size in which the twigs are grown after some distance from the root and the fruit also starts from the root of the tree and contin
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