Gokhru Kanti
Naturalized in waste lands and ruderal during rainy season, it is a much branched erect annual succulent herb with yellowish orange woody roots. It has simple, opposite, fleshy elliptic obovate leaves with crenate-serrate margins. Flower yellow solitary axillary. Fruit is pyramidal ovoid, 4-angaled with short sharp conical, horizontal spines. Seed pendulous, elongate, elliptic and 3 angled. Flowering and fruiting in August to October
Part used: Whole plant
Usage: Its cold water infusion is demulcent, diuretic and cures urinary disorders. Leaves heal ulcers. Fruits aphrodisiac and given as a decoction for incontinence of urine, spermatorrhoea and impotency. Juice of fruit is
used in puerperal disease and promotes lochical discharge. Decoction of roots is antibilious.