Botanical name : Epiphyllum stenopetalum (C.F.F) Britton & Rose
Family : Cactaceae
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Anandasayanam
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa : Kashaya, Madhura
Guna : Guru, Snigdha
Virya : Seeta
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English : Queen of the Night
Hindi : Anandasayan
Malayalam : Nisagandhi, Anandasayanam
Distribution – Throughout India cultivated in gardens and in temples.
PLANT DESCRIPTION
A fleshy perennial shrub grows up to 0.5 meter in height. Stems jointed, globose, flattened, mostly leafless, and laterally flattened resembling leaves. Leaves alternate, flat, vestigial, or entirely absent. Flowers always arising from cushion like, axillary areoles (modified short shoots). Flowers whitish, solitary, rarely clustered bisexual, rarely unisexual, actinomorphic or occasionally zygomorphic and very fragrant Fruit juicy, naked, and scaly. Seeds usually numerous, often arillate.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated vata, pitta, cough, bronchitis, cardiac debility, fracture, urinary retention, Reynaud's disease and kidney disease. This plant is considered as sacred as per Hindu culture.
Useful part : Whole plant.
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