Asparagus
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Scientific name
Asparagus racemosus
English Name
Asparagus
Malayalam name
ശതാവരി
Common name
Asparagus roots
Description
- Habit : Climber
- Habitat : Grow in moderate hills.
- Fruits : red berries
- Flowers : White,fragrant and solitary
- Roots : numerous and fusiform
How to use
- Acidity : Fresh juice from tuber is given orally in dysentery,acidity and to increase the breast milk after delivery.
- Wounds : the juice and tuber paste is applied externally to the burning feet and to heal the wounds.
- Body-ache,boils : Fresh tubers eaten to give strength,beat the heat and cure body-ache,boils.
Parts used
Tuberous roots
Uses
Rejuvenating,Aphrodisiac,Tonic.
Propagation & Cultivation
Seeds collected in February-March sown directly in polybags. The saplings can be planted in 50 x 50 x 50 pit filled with local soil mixed with farmyard.Irrigation required before and after plantation and 2-3 times in first two years, with regular weeding. Mature leaves and ripe fruits are collected and dried. Oil is extracted from the dried seeds.
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