Asparagus racemosa, Shatavari
Indian Asparagus; Shatavari (Ayurveda); Satavar (Unani); Nye Shing (Tibetan)
Figures of Indian Plants, Wight, 1853
Botanical name:
Asparagus racemosus
Others used include A. sarmentosus, A. curillus, A. filicinus
Parts used:
Root
Temperature & Taste:
Cool, moist. Sweet
Classifications:
3J. INCREASE SEMEN
Asparagus racemosus
Others used include A. sarmentosus, A. curillus, A. filicinus
Parts used:
Root
Temperature & Taste:
Cool, moist. Sweet
Classifications:
3J. INCREASE SEMEN
Uses:
1. Nourishes Blood and Yin, Regulates Menstruation:
-considered a special tonic medicine for women and female disorders in Ayurveda.
2. Benefits the Kidneys, Nourishes Yin
-Increases Sperm
3. Promotes Milk
-increases supply and quality of Breast Milk
4. Resists Poison:
-root decoction is given for Rabid Dog bite in India
5. Externally:
-widely used in oils, for dryness of the skin, aggravated Wind, and weakness of the muscles and joints
Main Combinations:
1. As an aphrodisiac and kidney tonic:
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2. Promote Fertility in male and female, Asparagus racemosus with ... available in PRO version
3. Increase quality and quantity of Sperm:
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4. As a female tonic:
i. Asparagus racemosus combines well with Dang Gui
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5. As a childhood tonic:
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ii. Asparagus juice is heated gently with Coconut milk, Cow Milk, Ghee, China root and Cardamon. This forms a nourishing tonic for emaciated children. (Shatavari Ghritam)
6. Promote and regulate Menstruation:
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7. Prevent Miscarriage:
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8. Increase Milk quality and quantity, Asparagus racemosus, ... available in PRO version
9. As a pediatric tonic, Asparagus racemosus with ... available in PRO version
10. Colitis:
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11. Lung heat Cough, Asparagus racemosus with ... available in PRO version
12. Difficult, painful urine, hematuria, Asparagus racemosus with ... available in PRO version
Major Formulas:
Asparagus Ghee (Shavatari Ghritam) (Ayurveda)
Dhatuvallabha Churna (Ayurveda)
Balivivan (Ayurveda)
Cardamon 7 (Sug smel 7) (Tibetan Medicine)
Mandala of the Sun (Se bru nye dkyil) (Tibetan Medicine)
Chyavanprash
Warm the Palace 7 Pill
Cautions:
1. Avoid in spleen weakness with loose bowels
Main Preparations used:
1. Avoid in spleen weakness with loose bowels
Main Preparations used:
History
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'These two plants [A. racemosus and A. sarmentosus] appear to be the Satavari and Maha-satdvari of the Nighantas: among the synonyms of the first, we find Dvipika, Dvipa-satru, Vara- ghantika, Narayani, and Sata-padi; the synonyms of the second are very similar, amongst them we note Bahu-puttrika, Dagdha, and Bhasma-roha. Both plants are considered to be heavy and cold, sweet, demulcent, galactogogue, tonic, and strengthening, and to remove bilious and rheumatic humors, blood diseases, and swellings; they are used both internally and in the preparation of several medicated oils. The tubers are candied and eaten as a sweetmeat. The fresh juice of the root is given with honey as a demulcent in bilious dyspepsia or diarrhoea (Sdrangadhara). As an aphrodisiac, Chakradatta directs four sers of the juice of the roots and four sers of ghi [ghee] to be boiled in forty sers of milk, and to be flavoured with sugar or honey, and long pepper.
The chief use of the drug, however, is in the preparation of medicated oils for external application in nervous and rheumatic affections and urinary disorders. The Narayam |
taila, a popular remedy of this kind, contains the barks of Aegle Marmelos, Premna integrifolia, Oroxylum indicum, Erythrina indica, Stereospermum suaveolens, and Poederia foetida; the roots of Withania somnifera and Boerhaavia repens, the fruit of Tribulus terrestris, and the leaves of Solanum xanthocarpum, Bolanum indicum, Sida cordifolia and Sida rhombifolia, of each twenty tolas. The whole collection is boiled in 64 sers of water down to one-fourth and strained. To the strained decoction is added four sers each of the juice of Satavari and prepared sesamum oil, sixteen sers of cows' or goats' milk, and a paste prepared with four tolas of each of the following drugs— Fennel seeds, wood of Cedrus Deodara, root of Nardostachys Jatamami, liquid storax, Acorus root, Sandalwood, herb of Limnanthemum cristatum, Costus, Cardamoms, leaves of Desmodium gangeticum, of Uraria lagopoides, of Phaseolus trilobus, and of Teramnus labialis, roots of Withania somnifera, Vanda Roxburghii, and Boerhaavia repens, rock salt. The whole is then reboiled and perfumed. (Chakradatta.)' (Pharmacographia Indica, Dymock, 1893)
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