apamarga :

A shrub that grows up to one meter height; leaves simple, opposite, obovate or elliptic; flowers bracteate and bracteolate, greenish, in spikes; fruits oblong urticle; seeds single, inverse.

Taxonomical Classification

Kingdom: Plantae - Plants

VERNACULAR NAMES

English: prickly chaff flower
Hindi: Circita
Malayalam: Vankadaladi, വന്‍കടലാടി, വലിയ കടലാടി

Varities:

Properties of fruit

Rasa : Madhura

Guna : Rooksha, Sara

Virya : Seeta

Of root

Rasa : Tikta, Katu

Guna : Teekshna, Sara

Virya : Ushna

Synonyms

Synonyms in Ayurveda: apamarga, durgraha, adhashalya, karmanjri, pratyakpushpi, kinihi, markat pippali, kshavaka, karkatpippali, kshudhapamarga, mayuraka, mayura, kharamanjar, shikari,Apamargah, Mayoorah,Markatapippalee, Durgrahah

Rasa: Kashaya Tikta
Guna: Teeskhsna
Veerya: Ushna

General Use:

Ravi Shanker:

It has got good sophahara property too. Kalkam of the leaves used for gosphana bandha in rectal prolapse and 2nd degree piles.

Therapeutic Uses:

Plant pacifies vitiated vata, kapha, asthma, bronchitis, flatulence, painful inflammations, vomiting, skin diseases, renal and vesical calculi.

Ayurvedic Formulations:

Common Ayurvedic Formulations of apamarga with their Indications
Agasthya Rasayanam - Agasthya Rasayana for asthma

KEY WORDS: APAMARGA, SVETA, വന്‍കടലാടി