Gokhru Kanti in traditional medicine

March 6 2024

Gokhru Kanti

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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.

March 6 2024

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A large succulent jointed branched, perennial shrub common in waste lands and degraded lands. Joints erect flat, obovate with many areoles having curved, yellowish spines. Flower yellow. Fruit red, fleshy, pear shaped marked with areoles, deep reddish when ripe. Flowering and fruiting in April to August.
Part used: Phylloc1ade and Fruit

Usage: Pulp of ripe fruit eaten to cure burning sensation in the stomach. Fruits is considered cooling and useful in gonorrhea. Baked fruit used in whooping cough. Mashed phylloclade is used as poultice to reduce
inflammation. Pulp also applied in Opthalmia. Fleshy phylloclade warmed slightly and tides over wounds and boils to get relief. It is also used to hasten suppuration of tumor and bums.

Agrotechniques: Propagated vegetatively through phylloclade.