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Botanical Name :
Withania
somnifera
Sanskrit Name :
Ashvagandha
English Name :
Winter
cherry
Family : Solanaceae
Part Used: Root
Description of
Withania somnifera:
It is
tomentose under-shrub. The taproot is well developed, stout and
fleshy. The leaves are ovate, sub-acute and pubescent. Flowers
are greenish or lirud yellow. Corolla is divided rather more
than ½ way down. Berry is red enclosed in the inflated calyx.
The seed are reniform and yellow.
W.somnifera
is an erect, evergreen, tomentose shrub. The roots are stout,
fleshy and whitish brown; the leaves are simple ovate, glabrous;
the flowers are inconspicuous, greenish or lurid-yellow, in
axillary, umbellate cymes; the berries are globose, orange-red
when mature, enclosed in the persistent calyx and have yellow,
reniform seeds.
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Principal
Constituents:
Biochemically heterogeneous alkaloids including cuscohygrine,
anahygrine, tropine, pseudotropine, anaferine. The plant has
steroidal lactones - withanolides, withaferin, which are
estrogenic compounds
Medicinal
Uses:
Aswagandha is used in asthma and as
a uterine sedative. The total alkaloids showed relaxant and
antispasmodic effects against several spasmogens on intestinal,
uterine, bronchial, tracheal and blood-vascular muscles.
Specification:
Standardized to customer Specification
Herbal Extract packing:
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