Botanical name : Marsilea quadrifolia Linn.

Family : Marsiliaceae

SANSKRIT SYNONYMS

Sunishanna, Chatuspatri

AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES

Rasa : Madhura, Kashaya

Guna : Guru, Snigda

Virya : Seeta

PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

English :

Hindi : Caupatiya, Sunsuniya

Malayalam : Neeraral

PLANT DESCRIPTION

A creeping perennial herb with slender long dichotomously branching rhizome; rooting at the nodes. Leaves quadrifoliate, circinate, when young, petioles long, slender, flexible, lamina divided into four leaflets, sporocarps are bean like, born on short or long stalks inserted a short distance above the base of the petiole.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Plant pacifies vitiated pitta, cough, bronchitis, diabetes, psychiatric diseases, eye diseases, diarrhea and skin diseases.

Useful part : Whole plant.