"HERBAL COUTURE" - Clothes That Make You Look AND Feel Good

You are probably aware that there are herbs and minerals with medicinal properties you can use orally, in soaps or in salves to cure illnesses.

But a new tradition of wearing healing herbs that originated in India is now becoming the rage in the U.S., according to Tribune India.

“Ayurvastra,” or popularly known as “Ayurvedic clothing” (meaning "science of long life"), is made from organic cotton fabric that has been soaked in special herbs and oils through a technology that embeds tiny beads of the herbs' healing properties into the fabric.

The technology is called "micro-encapsulation." Some of the herbs used include mimosa pudica, cumin seeds, champa flower, and shoe flower, to cure diabetes, and an anti-arthritis concoction of curry leaves and apocynaceae. After it dries, the fabric is then soaked in natural dyes that won't interfere with the herbs' natural healing agents.

According to Lotus Organics, which sells and markets the clothing in the U.S., Ayurvastra cloth is used to treat a wide range of illnesses such as "diabetes, skin infections, eczema, psoriasis, hypertension and high blood pressure, asthma, arthritis, rheumatism, and even some forms of cancer." Reports exist that it strengthens the immune system, and they swear it's completely free of synthetic chemicals, toxic irritants, is totally organic, and biodegradable.

How's that for couture that cures?