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Chris looked at Cela. "We are doing so good! So what you read means different types of smarts?"
"Ok I am going to read the next stuff!" he found something a few lines down from what she read. "A..yurveeeeda presents a...yurveeeeed..ic herbs information and the he alth
and the dis ease according to three hu..mors - Vata, Pitta and Kap..ha. The Pitta humor is responsible for ac..quisi..tion and in memory. Kap..ha factor is responsible for re..tent..ion and stabi...lizing that infor..mation." breath! He nodded as if it made sense, maybe Cela the smart one would know.
He pointed towards her brother's notes so she could read:
"Different parts of... what makes a smart person smart." Celandine agreed as if she knew toooootally what she was talking about.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
She nodded thoughtfully at what Chris read.
"Humours. I wonder who is the funniest? Vata, Pitta or Kapha?"
There was a list on the page of various herbs and stuff, with added notes neatly written alongside them.
"So herbs that are funny like Pitta or Kapha help make you smarter?" Celandine asked rhetorically, her head on one side and skimmed over some more.
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Both types of herbs that act through Pitta or Kapha are found to help in Intelligence. Some of the herbs are having sweet taste, sweet vipaka and cold active principle. These act through Kapha principle. Another type of herbs are bitter in taste and hot in active principle. They act through Pitta principle.
"If it is sweet with cold active... what? Who cares, I like sweet things."
She looked at the list of herbs uncomprehendingly and it wasn't until she saw the additions that Nico had made that she recognised one which she had in dried form in the potions kit he'd gotten her.
"Water hyssop!"
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Yastimadhu (Liquorice or Licorice).
Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia)
Shankhapushpi (Convolulis pluricaulis)
Mandukaparni (Centella asiatica)
Brahmi (Bacopa or Bacopa monnieri, Water hyssop)
Vacha (Sweet flag or Acorus calamus)
Apamarga (Prickly Chaff flower or Achyranthes aspera)
Vidanga (Embelia ribes)
Haritaki (Chebulic myrobalan or Terminalia chebula)
Kustha (Kuth or Costus or Saussurea lappa)
Shatavari (Asparagus racemosus).
There had to be something more detailed about that in this book! Celandine shoved it at Chris. "You look for stuff on Water Hyssop and I'll get it out of my kit and we'll be smart!"