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In many traditional homes even now infants are first wrapped in Turmeric dyed fabrics for its immense anti-microbial properties. |
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Indian textiles rich in anti-bacterial properties were often used to wrap Egyptian Mummies to delay the decaying process. |
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Indigo dyed curtains were used to make most of the mosquito repelling properties. |
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Temples & Indian households keep Marigold flowers & leaves from
Ashoka trees at their doorstep due to their anti bacterial & anti
microbial properties. |
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As stories & tales go,during the vedic times, rishi - munnies (holy
sages) who led a spiritual life creating havans (oblation) ,sat in front
of pyres for hours, sometimes days together. They wore protective
clothing made from textiles dyed in cow’s urine. They followed a ritual
of keeping the cow hungry for 2 -3 days and were then fed fresh mango
leaves. Hereafter the first urine was collected to dye the particular
fabric. This process was known to help the fabric become fire retardant
& fire repellent. |
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In households till date the first thing that is usually applied to cuts is turmeric. |
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Myraballum nut is used with honey as a digestive. |
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Even today Avala, Aritha and shikakai is used to nourish, wash and hair conditioning in India. |
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Though
Henna has many medicinal properties but is still used as tattoo on
hands, feet and other parts of body, dyeing hair and to heal the cracks
on the heel. |
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The
concept of organic farming was hardly known to the world few years back,but if we look into India’s history of farming,we will find that Indian
farmers have been doing organic farming since long back,using many
traditional methods to protect the crops from insecticides, pesticides,
herbicides, termites etc. For example,to protect the crop from termites they spread out dried leaves throughout the farm for the
termites to feed on & thereby not destroying the crop. Like-wise, there
are many traditional ways to protect the crops. |
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It
is being said that in Gulf countries people used talia rumalâ which was
sourced from India to protect themselves from the heat strokes. This
was a piece of fabric soaked in the castor oil after processing it for
several days as castor is known for its cooling properties. |
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Cow
dung and urine in India have many uses like as a fuel for cooking, as a
fertilizer, as a Purifier - natural antiseptic qualities, Floor
coating - used mixed with mud and water on floors in mud houses, as a
Fertilizer - alkaline - cow dung ash is basically lime with a few other
minerals mixed in, as a Pond ph balancer - thrown into pond neutralizes
acid. |
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Do you know that silk yarn is produced from silk worms? |
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Do you know that silk worms are being killed mercilessly to get the silk yarn/filament? |
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Do
you know that 15 silk worms are being killed to get 1 gram of silk, 1500
silk worms are being killed to get one meter of woven silk (cloth)? |
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ahimsa silk, cocoons are left alone for seven to 10 days. Once the
worms mature, they are allowed to pierce the cocoons and fly away as
moths. Only after that the manufacturing of peace silk begins. Each
cocoon is checked individually to ensure that the moth has escaped
before the silk thread is spun. |
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Tamarind is known to be used for printing for its acidic properties. |
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