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==Uses==
{{Uses|Diarrhoea}}, {{Uses|Haemorrhoids}}, {{Uses|Fever}}, {{Uses|Purulent ophthalmia}}, {{Uses|Snakebite}}.
===Food===
Dioscorea bulbifera can be used in Food. Underground and aerial tubers are eaten raw, roasted, boiled or cooked as vegetable. Before the use they are washed thoroughly in running water.
==Parts Used==
===Prabhava===
===Nutritional components===
Dioscorea bulbifera Contains the Following nutritional components like - Vitamin-C; Niacin (B3), Ribofl avin, Thiamine (B1); diosgenin, lucein, neoxanthin, auroxanthin and cyrptoxanthin; Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium<ref name="Nutritional components"/>
==Habit==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings of tubers}}.
==How to plant/cultivateCultivation Details==A plant of the moist, lowland tropics. It grows best in areas where annual daytime temperatures are within the range 20 - 30°c, but can tolerate 12 - 38°c.Dioscorea bulbifera is available through July-March<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
<ref name="Leaf">[Morphology]</ref>
<ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Dioscorea+bulbifera Cultivation]</ref>
<ref name="Nutritional components">Forest food for Northern region of western ghat pdf by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, MACS - Agharkar Research Institute, Pune</ref>
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