Black musli
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Scientific name
Curculigo orchioides
English Name
Black musli
Malayalam name
നിലപ്പന
Common name
Golden eye grass
Description
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : shade loving-plant
- Leaves : simple,almost radical
- Flowers : bright yellow
- Bark : Brownish black
How to use
Take 3 g of root powder with milk for urinary problems and with jaggery for leucorrhoea.
Nilappana is used along with other Dashapushpams to prepare medicated porridge.
30 ml of the decoction of the leaves is good to increase the strength of the lungs in asthma and COPD patients
Parts used
Roots
Uses
uro-genital diseases and to promote weight gain.
Propagation & Cultivation
It is propagated by bud and develops from wherever the leaf tip touches the soil.Thrives in moist, humus-rich shady forests of the Western and Eastern Ghats, Lower Himalayas, and other evergreen forests of India, growing up to a height of 1800 meters.
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