Botanical name : Amaranthus spinosa Linn.
Family : Amaranthaceae
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Tanduliya, Tanduleya, Tandula, Tanduliyaka
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa : Madhura, Kashaya, Kshara
Guna : Lakhu, Sara
Virya : Seeta
Vipaka : Madhura
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English : Prickly amaranth
Hindi : Kattaili chaulay
Malayalam : Mullancherra, Cherucheera
Distribution – Throughout India growing wild in waste lands, also cultivated.
PLANT DESCRIPTION
An armed herb grows up to 60 cm height. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate- lanceolate, and entire; flowers small, sessile, grey colored, in axillary or terminal spikes, fruits capsule, and small.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated pitta, kapha, skin diseases, burning sensation, hyperperspiration, cough, leucorrhoea, menorrhagia, boils, abscess, flatulence, colic, fever anemia and general debility.
Useful part : Whole plant
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