{"id":6644,"date":"2008-03-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/02\/india-s-healing-herb-dyed-cloth-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T12:00:00","slug":"india-s-healing-herb-dyed-cloth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/02\/india-s-healing-herb-dyed-cloth-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Healing Herb-Dyed Cloth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KERALA, INDIA, February 27, 2008: Cloth infused with the herbs of traditional Indian medicine is becoming increasingly popular as the county&#8217;s stressed urban workers seek cures for conditions such as insomnia and eczema. Wearing a special shirt is claimed to cure itchy or sore skin, while sleepless nights can be taken care of by putting a herb-infused sheet over your mattress.<\/p>\n<p>The herbs are selected according to the traditional Indian medicine known a ayurveda, with the infused cloth known as ayurvastra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have selected 28 medicinal plants based on ayurvedic texts and theory&#8211;then we dip the natural cotton into it to make sleeping cloths,&#8221; the chief dyeing technician of the ayurvastra project, Rajan Kay said.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the article <a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7205550.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news.bbc.co.uk KERALA, INDIA, February 27, 2008: Cloth infused with the herbs of traditional Indian medicine is becoming increasingly popular as,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}