Botanical name : Cayratia carnosa (Wall, ex Wight) Gagnep
(Vitis carnosa Linn. )
Family : Vitaceae
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Gandira
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa : Amla, Kashaya
Guna : Guru
Virya : Ushna
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English : Fox-grape
Hindi : Amalbel, Ramchena,
Malayalam : Amarchakodi, Chorivalli, Kattuperanda
Distribution : Growing wildly throughout the Western Ghats, in India
PLANT DESCRIPTION
A small fleshy tendril climber: tendrils short, slender and branched; leaves trifoliate, usually pubescent, leaflets dentate; (lowers in branched, long pcdunclcd cymes, flower buds globose; fruits fleshy berries; seeds pyriform or triangular, rounded and rugose on the back.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated vata, kapha,, tumors, fever, neuralgia and splenomagali. It purifies the blood and is given for liver diseases, cardiac disorders, ulcers, wounds, dropsy and hemorrhoids.
Useful part : Whole plant.
Photo taken by : Dr. Sasikumar Nechiyil MD.
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