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Sansevieria hyacinthoides

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Sansevieria hyacinthoides is a stemless evergreen perennial plant, producing succulent, erect, rigid leaves 15 - 85cm or more long and 25 - 80mm wide from a freely-spreading. The leaves can be up to 1.2 metres long. The flowering stem grows 45 - 75cm or more tall. The plant is gathered from the wild for the fibre obtained from its leaves. This is used locally. The plant is cultivated as a fibre crop in some parts of the tropics, especially tropical America, and is also often grown as an ornamental.

Uses

Internal parasites, Fevers, Toothache, Ear affections, Haemorrhoids.[1]

Parts Used

[[:Category:Herbs with used in medicine|]], stem, leaves, Root.

Chemical Composition

It contains phytochemical analyses revealed that the leaves, rhizomes, and roots are characterized by alkaloids, flavonoids, and steroids. Pharmacological research revealed that S. hyacinthoides crude extracts have anthelmintic, antibacterial, antifungal, and antioxidant activities.[2]

Common names

Language Common name
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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

Evergreen perennial

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature

[3]

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

Seeds, Division of the rootstock, Leaf cuttings.

How to plant/cultivate

A plant of the tropics. It grows best in areas where annual daytime temperatures are within the range 20 - 30°c, but can tolerate 15 - 36°c. It prefers a mean annual rainfall in the range 700 - 1,400mm, but tolerates 500 - 2,000mm.[4]

Commonly seen growing in areas

On bushveld, On savannah, On well drained sandy sol.

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References

  1. Indian Medicinal Plants by C.P.Khare
  2. Chemical contituents
  3. [Morphology]
  4. Cultivation

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