Family Name : ZYGOPHYLLACEAE

Botanical Name : TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS

Common Name : LAND CALTROPS, PUNCTURE VINE, GOKHRU

Part Used : WHOLE PLANT, SEEDS

Uses : The roots and fruits are sweet, coling, emollient, appetizer, alternate, laxative, cardiotonic, styptic, lithontriptic and tonic. They are useful in strangury, dysuria, vitiated conditions of vat and pitta, renal and vesical calculi, anorexia, dyspepsia, helminthiasis, cough, asthama. The seeds are astringent, strengthening and are useful in epistaxis, hemorrhages and ulcerative stomatitis. The ash of the whole plant is good for external application in rheumarthritis.

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