Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants
Canchorie root-plant
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Botanical name: Tragia involucrata Linn
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Dusparsa, Duralabha, Yavasa, Ananta, Yavasa
English: Canchorie root-plant, Stinging nettle, Climbing nettle
Hindi: Barhanta
Malayalam: Koduthoova, Kodithoova, Choriyanam
Botanical name: Tragia involucrata Linn
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Dusparsa, Duralabha, Yavasa, Ananta, Yavasa
English: Canchorie root-plant, Stinging nettle, Climbing nettle
Hindi: Barhanta
Malayalam: Koduthoova, Kodithoova, Choriyanam
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Climbing Nettle is a perennial twinning herb, covered with stinging hairs. Alternately arranged leaves are oblong-lanceolate or ovate, toothed, base heart-shaped or rounded, tip long pointed. Flowers are borne in racemes in leaf axils. Female flowers are few, in lower part of inflorescence; male flowers ae many in the upper part. Fruit is a 3-lobed capsule, containing 3 round smooth seeds.
This medicine helps to cure diabetes, skin diseases. It also purifies blood and eases bowel movement. The whole plant is useful.