Around a Medicinal Creeper Comprehension I:

Question 1.
What did Mara do when they found the creeper?
Answer:
Mara caught hold of one of the’tendrils ,and tied it to a nearby tree.

Question 2.
Mention the curse about the medicinal plant.
Answer:
The curse was that when someone needed that plant, they would not find it.

Question 3.
What surprised the white man?
Answer:
Mara held his wounded hand carefully so that it would not shake too much and went to
the white man at Hulihindalu for proper dressing and treatment. The white man got out
his first aid kit, cotton, medicines, antibiotic power etc., opened the bandage and
removed the leaf. There was no blood, no wound in fact no sign of any wound having
been there.lt really surprised the white man.
Question 4.
How did the mangoose and cowcal cure themselves of snakebite?
Answer:
When they go hunting snakes, if they are bitten by poisonous snakes they immediately
chew this leaf and thus cure themselves.

Question 5.
Why had Mara lost his teeth on the right side?
Answer:
Mara was aged and perhaps they had fallen off naturally.

Question 6.
What did Mara’s wife find on opening the packet of meat?
Answer:
Mara’s wife found there was a live wild duck.

Question 7.
What happened when the milk was mixed with the juice of the creeper’s leaves?
Answer:
The milk became hard when the milk was mixed with the juice of the creeper’s leaves.

Question 8.
When would the medicines lose their potency according to the belief of native
doctors?
Answer:
Because of this belief, India’s native medicinal systems are on the verge of extinction.

Around a Medicinal Creeper Comprehension II:

Question 1.
How long did it take the narrator to learn the facts about the medicinal creeper? What
does it signify?
Answer:
It took almost twenty years for the narrator to learn the facts about the medicinal
creeper. He analyzed and made research on all the real facts of the creepers.

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Question 2.
What does the incident of Mara’s wife throwing the leaves into fire tell us about Indians
in general?
Answer:
Indians in general are the believers of the superstitions, black magic, and witchcraft
etc. Mara’s wife might have frightened to see the wild buck instead of meat. She also
thought of the power of the leaves. The meat becomes an animal. So she burnt the
leaves in fire.

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Question 3.
How was Krishna cured of his illness?
Answer:
Krishna, when stopped working in the estate some time ago and he was driving a
rickshaw. And he changed his job; he started passing block with his stools. Now it had
become more serious and he was tired, breathless and wheezing.

I though he must be having piles. As far as I knew the only allopathic treatment for
piles was surgery. He went to the hospital and the doctors there advised him surgery.
Krishna went to the god man under whom he got his earlier treatment, Krishna ground
this root and drank it with milk, within a day his piles improved. He was completely
cured in five days.

Around a Medicinal Creeper Comprehension III:

Question 1.
Do you think the author is suggesting that Indian herbal medicine is better / safer than
allopathic medicine? Support your view.
Answer:
The Indian herbal medicine is better and safer than allopathic medicine. It does not
give any side effects. Traditionally the Indian herbal system is very famous. People use
systematically and progressively to find out the new medicines so as to cure chronic
diseases.

The ancient Himalayas had plenty of medicinal plants which we can find it even today.
Not only the Himalayas but the other Indian mountains and hill stations have the very
useful and medicinal herbs which can cure many challenging diseases in the medical
field. Scientifically it is proved that allopathic medicine has a lot of side effects. It is
full of chemicals and poisonous.

Question 2.
What has made the modern man lose the knowledge of traditional medicine? Do you
think Ayurveda will make a comeback in a successful way?
Answer:
Ayurveda, an ancient scientific system of medicine originated from India; the life
science where the principles 85 methodology are described to know the quantum &
status of social as well as personal health. All ancient civilizations have developed
their

own medicinal systems to cope up with illnesses which also reflect their social status,
beliefs and practices. Some of them are practised in their regions like Ayurveda,
Chinese, Unani etc. among them Ayurveda and Chinese have worldwide presence.

In the 21st century the reductionist approach of modem medicine treating the
symptoms or treating a finding revealed by high tech, high cost investigations as
against the integral approach of Ayurveda and secondly inability to treat life style
generated diseases & other complicated disorders like Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cancer,
Diabetes, Asthma, AIDS, Auto- immune disorders, & other life style generated
disorders, Viral disorders, Genetic diseases& side effects of modern medicines lured
the patients and compelled the scientists around the world to find alternate way from
Ayurveda and other alike medicines.

Question 3.
Our natural resources are our vital resources explain the statement in the light of
several developmental projects that are being promoted today.
Answer:
Human need is not uniform all over the world. Over the years, they have grown and
become more complex with the progress of human society. In very developed
societies, people use a variety of products which are highly processed.

On the other hand, in developing countries, the consumption of processed items is

much less; while primitive communities like the Pygmies in Africa hardly use any
processed items. The level of technology also influences the utilization of resources.
For example, the Prairies of C.P.C Digest

North America were inhabited by the American Indians who used the Prairies as
hunting grounds. Later when the European settlers arrived, they used the Prairies for
agriculture. Today the Prairies are famous for the cultivation of wheat and the rearing
of animals on a commercial basis.

The value of the resource changes with time. For example, water was used by early
man purely for his personal needs. As time went on, water was used by humans for
agricultural purposes namely irrigation. Later, water was also used as a means of
transportation and humans built boats to travel on water. Nowadays, water is also
used to generate electricity.

According to Walter Young quits, during periods of economic growth supply demands
on a resource will typically rise due to increasing consumption from not only
population growth but also higher living standards and the increased uses found for a
given resource.

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join, worth, head, quiet, child, partial, permit, starve, noble, ir, re, im, in, un, dis.
serious, pay, beauty, wave, tempt, conscious, culture, fore, y, en, ness, ity,
resemble, misery, technology, symbol, relation, engage, ment, al, ful, let, able,
 approve, comfort, finger, possible, fortunate, easy, ation, ance, ical, ship,
dependent, prison, willing, regular. ion.

Vocabulary

Join + Re = Rejoin
Worth + y = worthy
Head + fore = forehead .
Quiet + ness = quietness
Child + ish = childish
Partial + im = impartial
Permit + dis = dispermit
Starve + tion = starvation
Noble + ty = nobility
Serious + ness = seriousness
Pay + able = payable
Beauty + ful = beautiful
Wave + y = wavy
tempt + tion = temptation
conscious + ness = consciousness
culture + al = cultural
Resemblance + ance = resemblance
Misery + able = miserable
Technology + cal = technological
Symbol + cal = symbolical
Relation + al = relational
Engage + ment = engagement
Approve + dis = disapprove
Comfort + dis = discomfort
Finger + fore = forefinger
Possible + im = impossible
Fortunate + un = unfortunate
Easy + un = uneasy
Dependent + ance = dependence
Prision + im = imprison
Willing .+ ness = willingness
Regular + ir = irregular

Around a Medicinal Creeper Additional Question and Answer

I. Find out the correct and appropriate answers for the questions :

Question 1.
How long it took for the author to learn the facts of the medicinal creepers?
(a) five years
(b) ten years
(c) twenty years
Answer:
(c) twenty years

Question 2.
Who brought the medicianal plants first?
(a) Sanna
(b) Mara
(c) Mara’s wife
(d) mKrishna
Answer:
(a) Sanna

Question 3.
The disease Krishna is affected with is ………….
(a) blood clot
(b) piles
(c) kidney failure
Answer:
(b) piles

Question 4.
The medicinal creeper is used as
(a) antibiotic
(b) curing any medicines
(c) resisting the overgrowth
Answer:
(a) antibiotic

Question 5.
The reason for losing the potency of the Indian’s medicines, is
(a) Indian medicines are extinct
(b) not proper research on Indian medicines
(c) proper study for the education of Indian medicines.
Answer:
(a) Indian medicines are extinct

Answer the following questions.

Question 1.
How did Krishna get cured his piles?
Answer:
Krishna ground the root of the medicinal root and drank it with milk within a day his
piles improved He was completely cured in five days.

Question 2.
Who is Malayali sadhu?
Answer:
Malayali sadhu is a godman.

Around a Medicinal Creeper Summary in English

The story ‘around a Medicinal creeper’ written by Poornachandra Tejaswi speaks about
the medicinal creeper of the ancient time. It took twenty years to know the fact of the
plant. Once they needed some creeper to erecting a bamboo frame, so they sent
Sannappa to get some creepers from the forest.

He brought a, whole bundle, among them there was a medicinal Creeper. So Mara
scolded Sanna for bringing the unwanted creeper. Sanna replied that it was a
medicinal creeper .There was plenty of it in the forest. Mara eagerly went out to the
forest with Sanna. When Sanna showed the plant, Mara caught hold of one of the
tendrils and tied it to a nearby tree.

Sanna asked why he did so. Mara said that it had been cursed by a sage. The curse
was that when someone needed that plant, they would not find it. So when you want it
the search for it. That is why, when you find it you must immediately tie to a nearby
plant so that it will be lying there, explained Mara.

One day Mara had gone to the forest to bring some bamboo shoots home. With his
hands thrust through the bamboo cane when he was cutting the shoot, he accidentally
cut his hand. The sharp sickle had apparently cut an artery and it started bleeding
copiously in spurts.
Someone brought some leaf, pressed it against the wound and bandaged it with a
cloth torn from one of their lungis. When Mara went for the proper treatment, the white
man opened the bandage and removed the leaf. It’s a surprise that there was no blood,
no wound-in fact no sign of any wound having been there.

There is another story the narrator tells is that Krishna who is the erstwhile farmhand,
had piles struggled a lot seriously. Krishna took the root of the medicinal root, mixed it
with milk and drank the medicine for five days. He was completely cured.

One of the problems of why these native medicinal methods are not grown up is that
the native doctors believe that if they told others about their medicines, the medicines
would lose their potency. Due to this superstition India’s native medicinal systems are
on the verge of extinction.

Around a Medicinal Creeper Summary in Kannada