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Astragalus gummifer
Astragalus gummifer is a low-growing, thorny, deciduous shrub. This plant is one of the many species of Astragalus that produce tragacanth gum - a substance with many uses in medicine, as a food additive and in industry.
Contents
- 1 Uses
- 2 Parts Used
- 3 Chemical Composition
- 4 Common names
- 5 Properties
- 6 Habit
- 7 Identification
- 8 List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used
- 9 Where to get the saplings
- 10 Mode of Propagation
- 11 How to plant/cultivate
- 12 Commonly seen growing in areas
- 13 Photo Gallery
- 14 References
- 15 External Links
Uses
Parts Used
Gum.
Chemical Composition
It contains different nutritional constitutes like moisture, ash and total acidity in methanolic extract of A. gummifer was detected. In proximate screening highest ratio of ash (35.1 ± 2.0 %) indicating a richest bio-resource of vitamins. While the values for moisture (13.5±1.10%) and total acidity (0.009±0.0001%) indicating its valuable properties.[1]
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
Identification
Leaf
| Kind | Shape | Feature |
|---|---|---|
Flower
| Type | Size | Color and composition | Stamen | More information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Fruit
| Type | Size | Mass | Appearance | Seeds | More information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Other features
List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used
Where to get the saplings
Mode of Propagation
How to plant/cultivate
Requires a dry well-drained soil in a sunny position[1, 238]. Succeeds in poor soils.[3]
Commonly seen growing in areas
Dry sub-alpine slopes, Grassland, Dry valleys.
Photo Gallery
References
- ↑ Chemical costituents
- ↑ [Morphology]
- ↑ Cultivationz
External Links
- [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395923/ Astragalus gummifer on ncbi.gov]
- Astragalus gummifer on the ferns.info
- Astragalus gummifer on natural medicine facts.info
- Ayurvedic Herbs known to be helpful to treat Tumours
- Herbs with Gum used in medicine
- Habit - Evergreen Shrub
- Index of Plants which can be propagated by Seeds
- Herbs that are commonly seen in the region of Dry sub-alpine slopes
- Herbs that are commonly seen in the region of Grassland
- Herbs that are commonly seen in the region of Dry valleys
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