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'''Oxyria digyna''' is a perennial plant that can grow up to 0.45 metres tall. It is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Scurvy}}, {{Uses|Dysentery}}.<ref name="Uses"/>

==Parts Used==
{{Parts Used|Leaves}}.

==Chemical Composition==
The structures of three new compounds isolated, from the whole plants of Oxyria digyna (L.) Hill have been elucidated to be oxyriaflavonol (1), 5, 7, 3'-trihydroxy-4-methoxyflavanone-7-O-(2"-O-beta -D-glucopyranosyl)-alpha -L-rhamnopyranoside.<ref name="chemical composition"/>

==Common names==
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==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===

===Guna===

===Veerya===

===Vipaka===

===Karma===

===Prabhava===

==Habit==
{{Habit|Perennial}}

==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|||}}<ref name="Leaf"/>

===Flower===
{{Flower||||}}

===Fruit===
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===Other features===

==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==

==Where to get the saplings==

==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Division in the spring}}.

==How to plant/cultivate==
Prefers a moist well-drained rocky soil in a sunny position or partial shade.<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>

==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Damp rocky places on mountains}}, {{Commonly seen|Especially by streams}}, {{Commonly seen|On enriched soils below bird roosts}}.

==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
Oxyria digyna - Mountain Sorrel on way from Gangria to Valley of Flowers National Park - during LGFC - VOF 2019 (4).jpg
Oxyria digyna - Mountsorrel-1.jpg
Oxyria digyna - Mountsorrel2-1.jpg
Oxyria digyna 2017-04-20 8439.jpg
</gallery>

==References==
<references> 

<ref name="chemical composition">[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289264151_Three_New_Compounds_from_Oxyria_digyna_L_Hill Chemistry]</ref>

<ref name="Leaf">[Morphology]</ref>

<ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[http://temperate.theferns.info/plant/Oxyria+digyna Cultivation]</ref>
<ref name="Uses">Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare</ref>
</references>

==External Links==
* [http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Mountain%20Sorrel.html Oxyria digyna on flowersofindia.net]
* [https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Oxyria+digyna Oxyria digyna on pfaf.org]
* [http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/kukkakasvit/mountain-sorrel Oxyria digyna on luontoportti.com]
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