Arrowroot starch is a starch extract extracted from the arrowroot root plant. How to make arrowroot starch: the arrowroot tubers are cleaned from the epidermis and immediately soaked in water so they don't oxidize and change color. Then the arrowroot tubers are immediately ground gently and then the dregs are squeezed to form a liquid which is then left for 12 hours to allow sediment to form. After 12 hours of silence, a precipitate will form. The precipitate is taken and dried using an oven or dried under the hot sun. After being dried with a water content of about 10%, then softened again and then sieved/filtered to produce starch that is as soft as baby powder and then packaged.
Botanical Name - Nelumbo Nucifera Common Name - Mallouts Phillppensis Other Name - Red Kamala/ Kamala Tree. Part Used - Dried Fruit/ Bark / Seeds Uses - Textile Dyeing Kamala, Kameela, Kamcela, Spoonwood, Rottlera, Tinctoria all are synonyms of Mallotus philippensis, is a powder form of its fruit. It is a medicinal tree due to the presence of various phytochemicals. The leaves contain an alkaloid. The glands and hairs covering the fruit give rottlerin, mallotoxin and kamalin. The bark has astringent action due to the presence of tannin and applied as a poultices on cutaneous diseases. The colouring components of Kamala comprises of several of several chalcones. They are rottlerin, 4-hydroxy rottlerin,3, 4-dihydroxy rottlerin. Kamala powder exhibits several pharmacological properties such as anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and antimicrobial activity. It is a powdery substance obtained from its fruit. Tree is also known as the monkey tree and found throughout tropical India. Colour obtained on cellulose fabrics is ranges from golden yellow to apricot shade, while brighter shades are achieved on silk and wool. Different shade can be created with the use of iron mordant.
Botanical Name - Butea Monosperma Common Name - Parrot Tree Other Name - Palash Tree Part Used - Flowers Uses - Textile Dyeing,Curing Eye Cataratcts,And Kidney Stones. Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical part of the , and Nepal. It is commonly known as flame-of-the forest, bastard treak and Palash. It is used for timber, resin, fodder, medicine and dyes. The flowers are used to prepare a traditional Holi colour. It is also used as dye for fabric. It belongs to the family fabaceae. In India dried leaves of Palash are used to make disposable leaf plates and leaf bowls to serve food. Its leaves are rich in glucoside, linolenic acid, oleic acid, palasitrium, burin, bucolic acid. Flowers are rich in flavonoids, triterpene, button, button, isobutrin, coreopsis, isocoreopsin and sulphurein. All the parts of plant contain various different biological activities like anti- microbial, anti-fertility, anti-helminthic, anti-diarrhoea. Nowadays Butea Monosperma is largely used as dyeing colour for fabric (colour, silk, wool) Generally alum, is used as mordant while process of dyeing flowers of B.monosperma have also been used as blood purifier and its seeds as antiseptic and antihelmentic in traditional medicine.
Botanical Name - Syzyguim Cumini Common Name - Jamun Other Name - Black Plum, Java Plum Part Used - Kernels Uses - Fabric Dyeing Syzygium cumini, commonly known as Malabar plum, Java plum, Jamun ki guthli, or black plum, is an evergreen tropical tree in the flowering plant. It is native to the Indian Subcontinent. The extract of the fruit and seeds are found be effective against hyperglycemia in Diabetes-type2. The seeds of fruit are used in various alternative healing system like Ayurvedic treatment of anaemia, vocal related problems It is high source of vitamin A and vitamin C. In textile purpose jamun guthali give light yellow shade on normal ph.
Quebracho is a hardwood tree indigenous to . Their notoriously dense wood earned them a name derived from the phrase, quebrar hacha which means axe breaker. It is the source of the worlds most stable polyphenol. These polyphenols are what makes quebracho of interest of medicine. Its extracts naturally contains tannins, a water soluble polyphenol. Quebracho is a proanthocyanidin within the class of tannin, making it an extremely powerful antioxidant. They have many medicinal properties such as antifungal, antiviral, antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory. Quebracho is suitable for dyeing cellulose fibres and also performs well on silk and wool, and yields a lovely pinkish peach to brown rose colour. On wool brighter shade can be obtained using the Alum mordant.
Medicinal Seed - Toddalia Aculeata Root
