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'''Asvaghra''' is a moderate sized deciduous tree with pinnate leaves found in evergreen and moist deciduous forests. The leaves and trunk are prickly. It is a tree in the lemon family.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Asthma}}, {{Uses|bronchitis}}, {{Uses|Cardiac ailments}}, {{Uses|Hemarrhoids}}, {{Uses|Arthritis}}, {{Uses|Ulcers}}
<Ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Seeds}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=arempala, juminam, kadumenasu, aramadala, kavate|ml=Mullilam, Mulliyllam, Karimurikku, Kattumurikku|sa=tejovati, tejasvini, ashvaghra, laghuvalkala|ta=karuncurai, kattumurukku, mullilam, iraccai|te=rhetsa-man, morapu, raccamanu, racha, rachamam, rachchamanu,|hi=pepuli, badrang, budrung, jaladhari|en=Indian prickly ash-tree}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
Tikta (Bitter)
Laghu (Light), Rooksha (Dry)
Ushna (Hot)
===Vipaka===
===Karma===
Kapha, Vata
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Pinnate|Alternate|bark 15-20 mm thick, brown, mottled with white, armed with conical prickles; outer bark dead, corky, pale yellow, inner bark sulphur yellow; branchlets woody, terete, sparsely prickly.Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate; leaflets 13-23, opposite or subopposite, 6-19 x 3-6.5 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong, oblong-ovate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base oblique, margin entire or crenate, glabrous, punctate, coriaceous; petiolule 1-5 mm long;rachis 30-45 cm long slightly grooved above when young, becoming cylindric on maturity, usually prickly, glabrous; lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, slender, pinnate, prominent; intercostae reticulate, faint. }}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual, Terminal cymose panicles|2-3mm across|greenish-yellow|4|male flowers: sepals 4, ovate-triangular, fimbriate along margin, green; petals 4, free, elliptic-oblong, white or creamy yellow, valvate; stamens 4, anthers oblong, yellow; disc lobulate; pistillodes solitary; female flowers: sepals & petals as in male flowers; staminodes absent; disc pulvinate; ovary superior, 4-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style eccentric; stigma truncate. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Capsule||capsule, of 1-4 cocci, purplish, tubercled, aromatic, seeds globose, smooth, blue-black.|}}
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===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Evergreen forest}}, {{Commonly seen|Moist deciduous forest}}.
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Zanthoxylum rhetsa bark 10.JPG|Bark
File:Zanthoxylum rhetsa leaves 1.jpg|Leaves
File:Zanthoxylum rhetsa 6683.jpg|Fruits
File:Zanthoxylum rhetsa (8294564294).jpg|Habit
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="chemical composition">[Illustrated Dravyaguna Vijnana, Vol.II by JLN Shastry ]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER 2.0, N SASIDHARAN "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Uses">[http://www.ayurvedavignan.com/2013/05/zanthoxylum-rhetsa.html/ "Uses"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* [http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Zanthoxylum+rhetsa]
* [http://ijpsr.com/bft-article/folk-use-and-antioxidant-potential-determination-of-zanthoxylum-rhetsa-dc-shoot-a-highly-utilized-hot-spice-folk-vegetable-of-arunachal-pradesh-india/?view=fulltext]
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Plants of western ghats]][[Category:Trees]]
'''Asvaghra''' is a moderate sized deciduous tree with pinnate leaves found in evergreen and moist deciduous forests. The leaves and trunk are prickly. It is a tree in the lemon family.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Asthma}}, {{Uses|bronchitis}}, {{Uses|Cardiac ailments}}, {{Uses|Hemarrhoids}}, {{Uses|Arthritis}}, {{Uses|Ulcers}}
<Ref name="Uses"/>
==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Seeds}}
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=arempala, juminam, kadumenasu, aramadala, kavate|ml=Mullilam, Mulliyllam, Karimurikku, Kattumurikku|sa=tejovati, tejasvini, ashvaghra, laghuvalkala|ta=karuncurai, kattumurukku, mullilam, iraccai|te=rhetsa-man, morapu, raccamanu, racha, rachamam, rachchamanu,|hi=pepuli, badrang, budrung, jaladhari|en=Indian prickly ash-tree}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
Tikta (Bitter)
Laghu (Light), Rooksha (Dry)
Ushna (Hot)
===Vipaka===
===Karma===
Kapha, Vata
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Pinnate|Alternate|bark 15-20 mm thick, brown, mottled with white, armed with conical prickles; outer bark dead, corky, pale yellow, inner bark sulphur yellow; branchlets woody, terete, sparsely prickly.Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the tips of branchlets, estipulate; leaflets 13-23, opposite or subopposite, 6-19 x 3-6.5 cm, oblong, elliptic-oblong, oblong-ovate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base oblique, margin entire or crenate, glabrous, punctate, coriaceous; petiolule 1-5 mm long;rachis 30-45 cm long slightly grooved above when young, becoming cylindric on maturity, usually prickly, glabrous; lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, slender, pinnate, prominent; intercostae reticulate, faint. }}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual, Terminal cymose panicles|2-3mm across|greenish-yellow|4|male flowers: sepals 4, ovate-triangular, fimbriate along margin, green; petals 4, free, elliptic-oblong, white or creamy yellow, valvate; stamens 4, anthers oblong, yellow; disc lobulate; pistillodes solitary; female flowers: sepals & petals as in male flowers; staminodes absent; disc pulvinate; ovary superior, 4-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style eccentric; stigma truncate. }}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Capsule||capsule, of 1-4 cocci, purplish, tubercled, aromatic, seeds globose, smooth, blue-black.|}}
,
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}, {{Commonly seen|Evergreen forest}}, {{Commonly seen|Moist deciduous forest}}.
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Zanthoxylum rhetsa bark 10.JPG|Bark
File:Zanthoxylum rhetsa leaves 1.jpg|Leaves
File:Zanthoxylum rhetsa 6683.jpg|Fruits
File:Zanthoxylum rhetsa (8294564294).jpg|Habit
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="chemical composition">[Illustrated Dravyaguna Vijnana, Vol.II by JLN Shastry ]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER 2.0, N SASIDHARAN "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Uses">[http://www.ayurvedavignan.com/2013/05/zanthoxylum-rhetsa.html/ "Uses"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* [http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Zanthoxylum+rhetsa]
* [http://ijpsr.com/bft-article/folk-use-and-antioxidant-potential-determination-of-zanthoxylum-rhetsa-dc-shoot-a-highly-utilized-hot-spice-folk-vegetable-of-arunachal-pradesh-india/?view=fulltext]
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Plants of western ghats]][[Category:Trees]]
