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| Botanical Name |
Asparagus
racemosus |
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| Common Name |
English:
Asparagus |
| Family |
Liliaceae
(Asparagaceae) |
| Parts Used |
Tuberous
roots |
| Medicinal Property |
A
soothing, tonic herb that acts mainly on the circulatory digestive,
respiratory and female reproductive organs. It is used internally for
infertility, loss of libido, threaded miscarriage, menopausal problems,
hyperacidity, stomach ulcers, dysentery and bronchial infections. This is
the most important herb in Ayurvedic medicine for women as Withania
somnifera is for man. |
| Chemistry |
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| Description |
An
armed, climbing under shrub with woody terete stems and recurved or or
rarly straight spines, leaves reduced to minute chaffy scales and spines.
Flowers white, fragrant, in simple or branched racemes on the naked nodes
of the main shoots. The tuberous succulent roots are 30 cm to a 1 M or
more in length, smooth, tapering at both ends. |
| Distribution |
Throughout
India, in areas up to 1400 m elevation and also cultivated. |
| Economics |
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