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Description:
Botanical name : Capparis spinosa Linn.
Family : Cappariadaceae (Capparaceae)
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Himsraa, Kaakdaani, Kabara
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa : Tikta, Kashaya
Guna : Lakhu.
Virya : Ushna
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English : Caper Bush.
Hindi :
Malayalam : Kakkatondi
Unani : Kabar
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Distribution – Introduced form tropical Caribbean, found throughout warmer parts of India.
PLANT DESCRIPTION
A perennial spiny shrub grows up to 5 meters in height. Leaves are simple, alternate, fleshy, oval, or cordate, and pubescent. Flowers showy, big white to pinkish-white colored. Fruits round berries, containing embedded seeds.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated pitta, kapha, inflammation, diabetes, infection, hepatic and splenic diseases, urinary retention, urinary tract infections and scurvy. Flower buds and fruits are edible, consumes as pickle.
Useful part : Root, flower bud, Fruit.
CHEMICAL CONTENTS
Plant gave glucosinolates—glucoiberin, glucocapparin, sinigrin, glucocleomin and glucocapangatin. Rutin has also been reported from plant. The root bark, cortex and leaves gave stachydrine. Stachydrine, when given to dogs, rabbits and rats, quickened the coagulation of blood and reduced loss of blood.
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