“Sariva”
Hemidesmus indicus
Botanical Name:
Hemidesmus indicus

Sariva consists of root of Hemidesmus indicus (Linn.) R. Br., Family Asclepiadaceae

Common Name(s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Ananta, Gopasuta, Sariva
Assamese: Vaga Sariva
Bengali: Anantamul, Shvetashariva
English: Indian Sarasa Parilla
Gujarati: Upalsari, Kabri
Hindi: Anantamul
Kannada: Namada veru, Bili Namadaberu, Anantamool, Sogadeberu, Namadaberu
Kashmiri: Anant mool
Malayalam: Nannari, Nannar, Naruneendi
Marathi: Upalsari, Anantamula
Oriya: Dralashvan Lai Anantamool
Punjabi: Anantmool, Ushbah
Tamil: Ven Nannar
Telugu: Sugandhi Pala, Tella Sugandhi
Urdu: Ushba Hindi

Botanical description:
It is a perennial, slender, laticiferous, twining or prostrate, wiry shrub with woody rootstock and numerous slender, terete stems having thickened nodes. Leaves are simple, opposite, very variable from elliptic-oblong to linear-lanceolate, variegated with white above and silvery white and pubescent beneath. Flowers are greenish purple crowded in sub-sessile cymes in the opposite leaf-axils. Fruits are slender follicles, cylindrical, 10cm long, tapering to a point at the apex. Seeds are flattened, black, ovate-oblong and coma silvery white. The tuberous root is dark-brown, coma silvery white, tortuous with transversely cracked and longitudinally fissured bark. It has a strong central vasculature and a pleasant smell and taste.

Parts used:
Roots

Major chemical constituent:
Essential oils, saponins, resins, tannins, sterols and glucosides

Therapeutic uses:
• Digestive impairment (Agnimandya)
• Tastelessness (Aruci)
• Diarrhoea (Atisara)
• Asthma (Svasa)
• Fever (Jvara)
• Cough (Kasa)
• Itching (Kandu)
• Diseases of skin (Kustha)
• Disorders of blood (Raktavikara)
 





 
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