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Safed Musli belongs to family of Liliaceae. It was originally grown
in thick forest in natural form, and is a traditional medicinal plant.
Mainly its tuberous roots are used in ayurvedic medicines. Roots are
used for the preparation of nutritive tonic used in general sexual
weakness. These roots contain spermatogenetic, spermatorrhoea and
chronic leucorrhoea due to some chemical content. It is partly a herb
with sub-erect lanceolate leaves.
There are around 256 varieties of Chlorophytum in the world which
are yet known. In India, we have around 17 of them, of which, borivilianum
has got a good market demand.
BIO-CHEMISTRY OF SAFED MUSLI
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Carbohydrates
Proteins
Sepogeans
Sepoginin
Minerals
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Name of the crop in Hindi - Safed Musli
Botanical
name - Chlorophytum Borivilianum
Application
/ Use - Tonic
Growth
of roots - Tubberous (Usable part is roots of plants)
Flowering
- + P( 3+3 ), A 3+3, G White colour
Chromosomes
- 16
Seeds -
Black triangular two seeds present in single locule.
Family
- Liliaceae
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Safed Musli has very good ayurvedic medicinal use.
It is rich
source of over 25 alkaloids, vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates,
steroid, saponins, and polysaccarods
etc.
Presently
a number of health tonics (Sexual Tonics) are prepared from
it.
It is an
essential part of a traditional diet of mothers (after delivery)
in the form of "Laddoos".
Efforts
in countries like U.S.A and England are also on to convert it
into chips / flakes to use it
as a nutritious breakfast.
It also
has aphrodiasiac properties. |
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