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Botanical Name:
Asparagus racemosus
Shatavari consists of tuberous roots of Asparagus recemosus
Willd, Family Liliaceae
Common Name(s) in English & Indian Languages
Sanskrit: Narayani, Vari, Abhiru, Atirasa
Assamese: Satmull
Bengali: Satamuli, Satmuli, Shatamuli
English: Asparagus
Gujarati: Satavari
Hindi: Satavar, Satamul
Kannada: Ashadi poeru, Halavu Bau, Narayani, Makkala
Malayalam: Satavari Kizhangu
Marathi: Shatavari
Punjabi: Satavar
Tamil: Shimai-Shadvari, Nilichedi Kishangu
Telugu: Sima-Shatawari (Dry Root), Pippipichara,
Pilliteegalu (Fresh Root)
Urdu: Satawari
Botanical description
Subscandent spinous much branched perennial climber herb,
with short rhizomes and fusiform adventitious roots. Stems
slender, much branched, smooth, 1-2 m tall. True leaves
scalelike, subtending narrow, green leaflike branchlets.
Cladodes 1-3 in a fasicle, linear, flat, 1-2 cm long, 1-1.2
mm wide, slightly falcate, aciculate at apex, lustrous.
Flowers bisexual, yellowish, 6-7 mm long, 1-3, nodding in
axils of cladodes; pedicels 7-8 mm long, jointed in the
middle or above; perianth segments 6, separate; stamens 6,
filaments arising from base of perianth segments, anthers
versatile. Fruit globose berry, whitish, ripening to red, 6
mm in diameter.
Parts used:
Roots
Major chemical constituent
Glycosides, Saponins, Sitosterol
Therapeutic uses:
• Hyperacidity (Amlapitta)
• Piles (Arsa)
• Diarrhoea (Atisara)
• Abdominal lump (Gulma)
• Pthisis (Ksaya)
• Diarrhoea with blood (Raktatisara)
• Bleeding disorder (Raktapitta)
• Disorders of blood (Raktavikara)
• Gout (Vatarakta)
• Erysepales (Visarpa)
• Oedema (Soha)
• Duodental ulcer (Parinama Sula)
• Urinary disorders (Mutrarakta)
• Fever due to vata dosa (Vatajvara)
• Hoarseness of voice (Svarabheda)
• Night blindness (Naktandhya)
• Puerperal Disease (Sutika Roga)
• Aversion to breast milk (Stanya Dosa)
• Decrease in breast milk (Stanya Ksaya) |
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