ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS
description & usage
This climber growing in low jungles is found all over India, especially in Northern India. It is a beautiful xeropyhytic garden plant which is succulent lush green. Leaves are small and the stems are spiny in nature.
Uses :
Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Skin diseases. Giving tone and vitality to the body, increasing the secretion of milk in lactating mothers.
How to Use:
Root boiled with some bland oil, is used in various skin diseases. Root is boiled in milk and the milk is administered to relieve bilious dyspepsia and diarrhoea and to promote appetite ; root is also used in rheumatism. Fresh root-juice is given with honey as a demulcent ; bark is poisonous. Boiled leaves smeared with ghee are applied to boils, small-pox, etc., in order to prevent their confluence. Juice of this drug taken with milk is useful in gonorrhoea.
Parts Used:
Roots and Leaves
Taste:
Sweetness
Action:
Nutritive, demulcent, aphrodisiac, galactagogue
Uses :
Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Skin diseases. Giving tone and vitality to the body, increasing the secretion of milk in lactating mothers.
How to Use:
Root boiled with some bland oil, is used in various skin diseases. Root is boiled in milk and the milk is administered to relieve bilious dyspepsia and diarrhoea and to promote appetite ; root is also used in rheumatism. Fresh root-juice is given with honey as a demulcent ; bark is poisonous. Boiled leaves smeared with ghee are applied to boils, small-pox, etc., in order to prevent their confluence. Juice of this drug taken with milk is useful in gonorrhoea.
Parts Used:
Roots and Leaves
Taste:
Sweetness
Action:
Nutritive, demulcent, aphrodisiac, galactagogue