Botanical name : Tragia involucrata Linn.
Family : Euphorbiaceae
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Dusparsa, Duralabha, Yavasa, Ananta, Yavasa
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa    : Katu, Tikta, Madhura, Kashaya
Guna   : Lakhu, Snigdha
Virya   : Seeta
Vipaka: Katu
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English  : Stinging nettle
Hindi  : Barhanta
Malayalam : Koduthoova, Kodithoova, Choriyanam
Distribution – Throughout India, growing wild.
PLANT DESCRIPTION
A perennial twinning herb with stinging hairs all over. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate, serrate, base cordate or rounded, acuminate; flowers in axillary racemes, unisexual, female few, in lower part of inflorescence, male many in upper part. Fruits capsules, 3 lobed, containing 3 globose smooth seeds.     
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated pitta, constipation, hemorrhoids, diabetes, skin diseases, vomiting, vertigo, giddiness and headache.
Useful part : Root, Leaves