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Tribulus terrestris

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Tribulus terrestris
Linn. (Zygophyllaceae)

Small Caltrops
Land Caltrops
Puncture Vine

Gokshura
Trikanta
Shvadamshtra

Gokhru

 
Tribulus TerrestrisHabitat
It is commonly found throughout India, up to an altitude of 5,400 m.

Morphology Description (Habit)
T.terrestris is a variable, prostrate annual. The roots are slender and cylindrical, light brown and faintly aromatic. The leaves are paripinnate; the leaflets, 5-8 pairs, subequal, oblong to linear-oblong. The flowers are leaf-opposed, solitary, pale-yellow to yellow; the fruits, globose, consisting of 5-12 woody cocci, each with 2 pairs of hard, sharp, divaricate spines, one pair longer than the other. Several seeds are seen in each coccus with transverse partitions between them.


Principal Constituents
Harmine.

Indications
It is well known diuretic plant drug useful in urolithiasis, dysurea, impotence and kidney dysfunction.

 
 
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