{"id":19442,"date":"2024-01-17T07:29:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T01:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19442"},"modified":"2025-04-05T17:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T12:04:25","slug":"african-dream-herb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/african-dream-herb\/","title":{"rendered":"African dream herb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About African dream herb<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0perennial climbing vine that is used by African traditional healers to induce vivid dreams that enables them to communicate efficiently with their ancestors.<\/li>\n<li>Common names: Giant sea bean, African dream herb, snuff box and Entada rheedii<\/li>\n<li>Distribution and habitat:\u00a0It is indigenous to\u00a0Africa, Asia, Australia and Madagascar. It grows in tropical lowlands, along the coastline and river banks, in woodland, thickets and riverine rain forests.<\/li>\n<li>Uses\n<ul>\n<li>A paste made from the leaves, bark and roots is used to clean\u00a0wounds, treat burns and heal jaundice in children.<\/li>\n<li>Tea made from the whole plant is used to\u00a0improve blood circulation to the brain and heal the after-effects of a stroke.<\/li>\n<li>The bark is used to treat diarrhoea, dysentery and parasitic infections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This creeper yields a dark brown and spherical seed, almost the size of a human patella or kneecap, used to play \u2018Hambi Kepathu\u2019. Associated with the origin of the Karbi community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Hambi Kepathu?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as\u00a0Simrit in some parts of Karbi Anglong, is played on three rectangular courts by two teams comprising three members each.<\/li>\n<li>Each member of a team has to place a \u2018hambi\u2019, or the glazed creeper seed, vertically on the midpoint of the boundary line of his court for a player of the rival team to hit with his \u2018hambi\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Hambi Kepathu, whose name is derived from the first syllables of the names of a Karbi sister-brother duo, is a male-only game like other traditional Karbi games such as \u2018Pholong\u2019 (spinning top), \u2018Thengtom Langvek\u2019 (torch swimming), and \u2018Kengdongdang\u2019 (bamboo stilt race).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Jaundice?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a condition produced when excess amounts of bilirubin circulating in the bloodstream dissolve in the subcutaneous fat (the layer of fat just beneath the skin), causing a yellowish appearance of the skin and the whites of the eyes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/in-assam-creeper-conservation-rides-revived-karbi-traditional-game\/article67744074.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>In Assam, creeper conservation rides revived Karbi traditional game<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African dream herb is used by African traditional healers to induce vivid dreams that enables them to communicate efficiently with their ancestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}