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Aug 22, 2011

AMARANTHUS GANGETICUS

 
AMARANTHUS GANGETICUS
Description:
Botanical name : Amaranthus gangeticus Linn.
Family : Amaranthaceae

SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Yavashaka 

AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa    : Kashaya, Madhura
Guna   : Guru, Snigdha
Virya   : Seeta

PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English     : Country green
Hindi        : Sag. Lalsag
Malayalam    : Cheera, Block chera
Distribution – Throughout India cultivated.

PLANT DESCRIPTION
A small annual or biennial herb grows up to 1 meter in height. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate or rhomboid, acute or acuminate and dark green colored. Flowers yellowish green, small, in terminal or sub terminal spikes. Fruits very small ovoid, covered with persistent calyx. Seeds 1-3, very small and black.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated vata, pitta, constipation, urinary retention, edema, anemia, reduced eye sight, menorrhagia, leucorrhea, and general weakness. Plant as a whole is used as a vegetable.

Useful part    :    Whole plant

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