1st PUC ENGLISH NOTES - AROUND A MEDICINAL CREEPER

 

Chapter 3

AROUND A MEDICINAL CREEPER

Poornachandra Tejaswi

Comprehension

I.

1) What did Mara do when he found the creeper?

Ans: Mara became very active. He caught hold of one of the tendrils and tied it to a nearby tree.

 

2) Mention the curse about the medicinal plant.

Ans: The medicinal plant had been cursed by a sage. The curse was that when someone needed that plant, they would not find it. At the point to find it, it must immediately tie to a nearby plant so that it would be lying there.

 

3) What surprised the white man?

Ans: Once Mara got injured white cutting the shoot and someone had brought some leaf, pressed it against the wound and bandaged it. Later he went to the white man. The white man opened the bandage and removed the leaf and got surprised that there was no blood, no wound, in fact no sign of any wound having been there.

 

4) How did the mongoose and the cowcal cure themselves of a snake bite?

Ans: The mongoose and the cowcal cured themselves by chewing the leaf of the medicinal plant when they were bitten by a snake.

 

5) Why had Mara lost his teeth on the right side?

Ans: Mara had lost his teeth on the right side because when he broke a small stick from a nearby plant to brush, he felt a sour taste in the mouth. He wanted to rinse his mouth. He took some water from the stream, put it into his mouth and after churning it around in his mouth, and spat it out. Surprise! All the teeth, which had been touched by that stick, tumbled out of his mouth!

 

6) What did Mara’s wife find on opening the packet of meat?

Ans:  Mara’s wife found a live wild buck on opening the packet of meat.

7) What happened when milk was mixed with the juice of the creeper’s leaves?

Ans: When milk was mixed with the juice of the creeper’s leaves then the milk became thick.

8) When would the medicines lose their potency, according to the belief of native doctors?

Ans: According to the belief of native doctors, the medicines would lose their potency if they told others about their medicines.

 

II.

1) How long did it take the narrator to learn the facts about the medicinal creeper? What does it signify?

Ans: The narrator took nearly twenty years to learn the facts about the medicinal creeper. Above all else, it shows that insufficient exploration work has gone into the field of home grown medication. The unskilled locals realize that a few plants are restorative; however they don't have a clue about the specific advantages that can be harvested from these plants. Additionally, even the ones who know the estimation of the plants don't let out the mystery due to the conviction that whenever spoken about, the plant may lose its intensity. There is likewise the topic of misrepresentation. Individuals like Mara purposely or unwittingly add a couple of succulent pieces to their encounters and henceforth, for a third individual, it's hard to separate among truth and fiction. Accordingly, even a reality is confounded about fiction. Finally, even individuals like the storyteller, who have an enthusiasm for the therapeutic plants and definitive confirmation of its advantages neglect to seek after the issue in a reliable way with purposeful endeavors.

 

2) What does the incident of Mara’s wife throwing the leaves into fire tell us about Indians in general?

Ans: At the point when a live wild buck showed up in the spot of the meat of the deer and fled, Mara pursued it. Mara's without knowing the slightest bit about the foundation of the scene, gotten the leaves and tossed them into the fire. It shows that even after such a bizarre episode of the dead meat transforming into a live creature, the lady was not keen on discovering what might have prompted the wonder.

 

3) How was Krishna cured of his illness?

Ans: Krishna cured from piles problem. Krishna had piles issue and the main remedy for it in allopathy was medical procedure. Krishna, an ignorant, was unnerved by medical procedure and thus he went to the town godman for therapy. The godman, being old, could just give the portrayal of the plant which could be utilized for his fix. Since the portrayal coordinated the highlights of the marvel creeper, the creator took him to the creeper which Appanna had attached to a tree and Krishna drank the ground tuber of the creeper with milk.

 

III.

1) Do you think the author is suggesting that Indian herbal medicine is better/safer than allopathic medicine? Support your view. 

Ans: Yes, the author is suggesting that Indian herbal medicine is better / safer than allopathic medicine. In spite of the fact that he communicates question over the unbelievable accounts of Mara about the viability of specific spices and plants, he shows plainly that Indian home grown medication can do some amazing things with sicknesses which in allopathic medication have either no fix or fix just through medical procedure with all its I related issues.

 

Directly toward the start of the piece, he affirms that out of the numerous anecdotes about an abnormal therapeutic creeper, however some are fanciful and some bogus, some are genuine too. He likewise expresses that it took him twenty years to show up at current realities as to this creeper. In spite of the fact that he continues alluding to Mara's accounts as unrealistic, he yields that not every one of them can be excused as balderdash. Even after Mara's demise, the creator is grieved by what Mara needed to state about numerous a plants in the woodland. His hypotheses get a fillip when milk gets soured and gets rubbery subsequent to pressing the juice of the therapeutic creeper he had seen Mara and Appanna binds to a tree into the milk. In spite of the fact that he is as yet not certain about what restorative quality the creeper may have had he is sure that the creeper has certain unusual qualities. The episode with Krishna, his previous farmhand, further affirms his idea. Most importantly, the essayist discloses to us that Krishna was relieved of his rashes by the medication given by a Malayali Sadhu, devised out of the bark of some tree squashed and blended in with duck's eggs and eaten. Besides, the essayist urban communities the episode of Krishna getting restored of his heaps by drinking the ground base of a creeper, blended in with milk. Further, the creator calls attention to that just by eating a little bit of the tuber to perceive how it tasted, he appeared to have helped his heel which had been tormenting for a long while.

 

2) What has made the modern man lose the knowledge of traditional medicine?

Ans: The conviction of the local specialists that in the event that they enlightened others concerning their meds, the prescriptions would lose their intensity has brought about the loss of information on conventional medication. Furthermore, since the sadhus and godmen have pretty much been unskilled, the information has not been conveyed forward in the composed organization. Thirdly, those like Mara who have profited by such meds, misrepresent current realities and subsequently the realities are confused with fiction. Fourthly, even the informed parcel, similar to the creator himself, takes quite a while even to seek after the issue and check whether there is truth in the cases made by individuals, for example, Mara. Notwithstanding this, Ayurveda is excused by allopathic specialists as balderdash. Thus, Ayurveda needs to battle the obliviousness of the ignorant and the presumption of the proficient.