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Asparagus racemosus WILLD


Botanical Name	:	Asparagus racemosus WILLD
English Name	:	Wild Asparagus
Synonym(s)	:	Asparagus sarmentosus, Asparagus gonoclados, Asparagus adscendens
Family	:	Liliaceae

General Info

Description

It is an under-shrub, climbs up to 1 to 3 m high, with stout and creeping root stock. The root occurs in clusters or fascicle at the base of the stem with succulent and tuberous rootlets. The stem is scandent, woody, triquetrous, striate, terete and climbing. The young stem is delicate, brittle and smooth. The spines are long, sub-recurved or straight. Cladodes are in tufts of 2 to 6 in a node, slender, finely acuminate, falcate divaricate. The flowers, solitary or fascicles, simple or branched racemes of 3 cm long. The pedicel is slender and jointed in the middle. Perianth lobes white, fragrant and 3 mm in length. The anthers minute and purple. The berry globular or obscurely 3 lobbed, purple-reddish, seeds hard with brittle testa.

Herb Effects

Anticancer, alleviates spasms and antiarrythmic (aerial part); aphrodisiac, hypothermic and galactogenic (root); antibacterial and antifungal (bark); antioxytocic and diuretic (plant); antiallergic (root extract).

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Chemistry

Active Ingredients

Shatavarins I-IV (plant); diosgenin and a flavonoid glycoside (leaf); quercetin (flower); rutin (flower and leaf); Aloin (gel).

Chemistry of Active Ingredients

Name

CAS#

IUPAC Name

Formula

Structure

Diosgenin

512-04-9

Not Available

C₂₇H₄₂O₃

Quercetin

Not Available

2-(3,4-dihydroxyphen
yl)-3,4,5-trihydroxy
-chromen-7-one

C₁₅H₁₀O₇

Rutin

Not Available

2-(3,4-dihydroxyphen
yl)-4,5-dihydroxy-3-
[3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-
[(3,4,5-tr ihydroxy
-6-methyl-tetrahydro
pyran-2-yl)oxymethyl
]tetrahydropyran-2-y
l] oxy-chromen-7-on
e trihydrate

C₂₇H₃₆O₁₉

Aloin

20226-90-8

1,8-dihydroxy-3-(hyd
roxymethyl)-10-[3,4,
5-trihydroxy-6-(hydr
oxymethyl) oxan-2-y
l]-10H-anthracen-9-o
ne

C₂₁H₂₂O₉

Pharmacology

Medicinal Use

As a tonic, aphrodisiac, cooling agent and for stimulating the secretion and/or flow of milk (root); as a demulcent (plant); is useful in tumors, inflammations, diseases of blood and eye, throat complaints, tuberculosis, leprosy, epilepsy, night blindness and kidney troubles.

Contraindication

Do not use if congested.

Reference

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.

Uniyal et al., Medicinal Flora of Garhwal Himalayas.

Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.

Manandhar NP. Plants and People of Nepal Timber Press. Oregon, 2002 ISBN 0-88192-527-6.

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