Botanical name : Triticum aestivum Linn, (Triticum sativum Lam)
Family : Poaceae
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Godhooma
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa : Madhura
Guna : Guru, Snigdha
Virya : Seeta
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English : Common wheat, Bread wheat
Hindi : Gehoom
Malayalam : Gotambu, Godambu, Kotambu
Distribution : Cultivated in many places in India.
PLANT DESCRIPTION
A beautiful golden colored grass, grows up to 1.5 m in height. Stems hollow, tufted, erect, semi-erect or prostrate, leaves very long and narrow with ligule and auricles; inflorescence a spike or 2-ranked compressed spikelets; grains oblong, blunt on both ends, with a horizontal groove.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated vata and pitta, general debility, anorexia, flatulence, boils, skin diseases, ulcers, constipation and menorrhagia, It promote the reunion of fractured bones.
Useful part : Grain, Grass. (Wheat grass therapy)
Photo taken by : Dr. Nand Kumar Sahni MD.
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