Skip to content

Narrow screen resolution Wide screen resolution Increase font size Decrease font size Default font size default color green color orange color
 
Home arrow Plants arrow Karrow Karalayam

Mainscreen Mainscreen > K > Karalayam

Image of ecard

Slideshow:


Karalayam


Name: Karalayam
Filename: Aristolochia_indica.jpg
Description:

Botanical name : Aristolochia indica Linn.
Family : Aristolochiaceae
SANSKRIT SYNONYMS
Garalika, Eesvari, Garudi
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa    : Tikta, Kashaya, Katu
Guna   : Lakhu, Rooksha
Virya   : Ushna
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
English  : Indian birthwort
Hindi  : Isvarmul
Malayalam : Karalayam, Eesvaramooli, Eesvaramulla, Garudakkodi
Distribution – Throughout India, growing wild, in semi deciduous forests, on hedges bushes etc. 
PLANT DESCRIPTION
A perennial climber shrub with woody base stocks. Leaves simple, alternate, entire, with undulate margins, acute; flowers greenish white, in axillary cymes; fruits rounded oblong,  6 chambered contain numerous winged compressed seeds.   
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Plant pacifies vitiated kapha, vata, poison, skin diseases, intestinal worms, colic, arthritis and ulcers.
Useful part : whole plant.  


hits: 1193
Rating:
3.00/ 2 votes


Featured Product

MELIA ORIENTALIS (VA
PLANT SEEDS (SEASONAL)
(30.09.2008)



Top
Generated in 2.11085 Seconds