Asparagus racemosus Willd.
Traditional Knowledge
Useful plant parts :
Tuber and cladode
Uses in traditional medicine :
- Medicated oil prepared with tuberous roots is used in chronic rheumatism and bilious
- Cladodes are boiled and applied on boils and swellings
- Drink prepared with tuberous roots increase sexual vigour, cures infertility in women, and acts as a refrigerant, demulcent, diuretic, aphrodisiac, alterative, antidiarrheic and antidysenteric
Scientific Research
Chemical constituents:
Phenanthrene derivatives: racemosol, furostanol, steroidal saponin: shatavaroside C, shatavarin I-IV, racemosides A–C, diphenylpentendiol: shatavarol, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol and ursolic acid from roots and fruits
Bioactivity :
Alcohol extract of roots: antidepressant, antistress, antihyperglycaemic, antioxidative, hepatoprotective; aqueous fraction of the crude extract: antioxidative; shatavarin rich fraction: anticancer
Clinical:
Powdered roots exhibit positive results for dyspepsia by reducing gastric emptying time; Ingrediant of herbal/herbo-mineral drugs used for treatment of peptic ulcer
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