tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804956955805442229.post1375437900813208277..comments2024-03-26T11:50:14.592+05:30Comments on Simple Ayurvedic health tips: Hyptis suaveolens - An introductionMadhavi Madhurakavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01540062489911165599noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804956955805442229.post-35898566596382050722015-01-07T16:12:09.783+05:302015-01-07T16:12:09.783+05:30wow !!!wow !!!Madhavi Madhurakavihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540062489911165599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4804956955805442229.post-50416818930579535452015-01-07T10:04:05.387+05:302015-01-07T10:04:05.387+05:30This plant is known as Whitney, at least by the Mu...This plant is known as Whitney, at least by the Murrumburrah people of Kakadu. They don’t have a written language so I have spelt it phonetically not being a linguist. <br />My father knew of this herb to be a blood coagulant and I witnessed him using it when I was around 6 years of age (1965). He used it to stop the massive bleeding from a head wound of a man who fell on rocks at the base of Manton Dam. As the patient was carried up to carpark all attempts to stop the bleeding with a towel failed. Dad, walking behind the group, gathered Whitney as he went. Chewing up the leaves to make a moist wad which he eventually got to place on the patients wound up at the carpark. As I recall, the bleeding was arrested in a matter of seconds.<br />In 2014 a worker at our bush camp clean-sliced the top of a finger. A shallow slice, oval in shape with the maximum diameter of around 10mm. No skin left to knit. I arrived about 2 hours after the incident. He showed that whenever he removed the binding from his finger it would start to ‘spurt’ again. I walked around 20 meters to find some Whitney, chewed it, applied it and the bleeding stopped in around 3 seconds. I advised him to cover it again and to avoid manipulating it, though it was proven that the bleeding was not to be restarted by gentle manipulation of the cut area.<br />My father is of Indonesian decent though I don’t know if he brought the knowledge with him at the age of around 10 years old when he arrived in Australia or whether he learnt it from the First Australians or Asian immigrants in cosmopolitan Darwin. Several First Australians I know were not familiar with the herb being blood coagulant, though did have a non-medicinal use for the plant.<br />Trevor Wie - Ass Dip Environmental Biology<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063640462116095993noreply@blogger.com