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Brain Mapping

The power of Medicinal Plants:

Nature's Healing Touch

Medicinal plants are plants that have natural healing properties. They contain special chemicals
that help treat or prevent diseases. Long ago, before modern medicine people turned to nature
for healing and used them for thousands of years in traditional medicine. Even today many
medicines are made using natural plant extracts. These green wonders are not just remedies
they are nature's way of caring for us.

Mission

Plants are more than just green, they heal, protect and care for us in amazing ways! Your mission
is to solve this crossword puzzle and uncover the hidden powers of medicinal plants.

Questions

1.A bitter plant with strong antibacterial and
antifungal properties and is used in soaps.
2.Green leafy plant used as salad and tea.

3.A drug used in treating illness.
4.An Indian herb also called Indian ginseng
that helps reduce stress.
5.Other name of Holy Indian Basil.

6.Scientific study of plants.
7.A Cactus like plant that grows in hot dry
climates.
8.The traditional yellow coloured root

belonging to the family of Ginger.
9.Traditional Indian medical system.
10.Short plants with soft, green and delicate
stems that are non woody.

Kareena Tulera

Student, XII
SSLT Gujrat
School
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-2025