sthulgokshura :

Rasa: Madhura Tikta
Guna: Guru
Veerya: Sheetha

 Traditionally, P. murex was utilized in various ways, either as a whole plant or individual plant parts or sometimes in different special preparations. The leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable. Leaves and branches, when briskly stirred in cold water yield thick mucilage similar to the white of a raw egg are reported to possess significant medicinal properties[11]. According to Ayurveda, P. murex is mainly used as tonic, aphrodisiac, improves appetite and useful in strangury, urinary discharges, vesicular calculi, cough, asthma, pain, cures skin diseases and heart troubles, piles and leprosy. It purifies blood, removes stone in the bladder. According to Unani system of medicine, it is used as diuretic, cures strangury, gleet, lumbago, tonic, enriches blood, increases mensural flow, good gargles for mouth troubles and painful gums, stomachic, appetizer, emmenagogue etc[12-14]. An infusion prepared from the plant is a highly prized remedy amongst the people of Southern India in the treatment of gonorrhaea and dysuria. It is also given as a remedy for spermatorrhoea, incontinence of urine and impotency

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