₹100.00
An erect biennial herb 15-40 cm tall, strongly aromatic, its odour similar to that of coriander with furrowed stems, a short rootstock and fibrous roots. Leaves oblanceolate-oblong in outline, 4-12 cm long and 1-2.5 cm wide, apex obtuse, margins crenate to finely spinosely serrate, base cuneate, sessile and glabrous. Flowers greenish, borne in dense, rounded cymes; involucral bracts 5-7, linear-lanceolate, 1-3 cm long and 3-7 mm wide, greatly exceeding the flower heads, leaf-like, spreading and reflexed with a few spiny teeth; flower heads cylindrical, 4-10 mm long and 3-5 mm broad, terminal on the branches or on short peduncles in the forks, sepals erect, lanceolate, longer than the petals, persistent, apex acute; petals greenish-white, oblanceolate to obovate, erect, clawed. Fruit globose or ovoid, 1-1.5 mm long, compressed, densely papillose
Availability: 18 in stock
The leaves and roots are used to prepare as tea,
which will stimulate appetite, improve digestion, combat colic, soothe stomach pains,
It eliminates gases and is an aphrodisiac.
The decoction of leaf and root are used in the treatments of Pneumonia, fever, dysentery, constipation, diabetics, and vomiting.
| Weight | 1 kg |
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