Satavari – Asparagus Recemosus
English Name Botanical Name Family Sanskrit Name Hindi Name
Wild asparagus Asparagus recemosus Liliaceae Satavari, Abhiru Satavari, satamul
Satavari is an armed, climbing under-shrub with woody terete stems and recurved or rarely straight spines, young stems very delicate, brittle and smooth. Leaves are chaffy scales and spines, flowers white, fragrant in simple or branched racemes. Fruits are globular 3-lobe shaped, purple berries,purplish black when ripe. Seeds are with hard and brittle testa. The tuberous succulent roots are upto 1 m in length, smooth, tapering at both ends.
Ayurveda recommends Satavari in nervous diseases, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, dysentery, tumours, inflammations, vitiated conditions of Vata and Pitta, burning sensation, ophthalmopathy, nephropathy, hepatopathy, throat infection, cough, bronchitis, gonorrhoea, leucorrhoea, leprosy, epilepsy, hyperacidity, colic, piles, cardiac debility, hypertension, abortion, general debility and all female reproductive diseases.
Qualities (Ayurveda)
Taste Bitter, sweet
Qualities Emollient, cool, nervine tonic, constipating, aphrodisiac, diuretic, carminative, tonic, appetiser, rejuvenating and anti-spasmodic
Potency Cool
After digestion taste Sweet
Special action Good for female reproductive system
Useful conditions Nervous diseases, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, dysentery, tumours,inflammations, vitiated conditions of Vata and Pitta, burning sensation, ophthalmopathy, nephropathy, hepatopathy, throat infection, cough, bronchitis, gonorrhoea, leucorrhoea, leprosy, epilepsy, hyperacidity, colic, piles, cardiac debility, hypertension, abortion, general debility
Asparagus RecemosusTherapeutic uses (Ayurveda)
Ayurveda recommends root decoction in diarrhoea, chronic colic and dysentery.
In Ayurveda, the milk processed with Asparagus root is given for bilious dyspepsia and diarrhoea and the decoction for joint pain and arthritis.
In Ayurveda, the boiled leaves with ghee are applied in boils, small pox to prevent their confluence.
Juice of the bark with milk is given as a tonic for females to strengthen the reproductive system and as treatment for gonorrhoea.
The juice of the roots boiled with ghee, milk and honey is a good recipe for seminal weakness and general debility.
Ayurveda recommends the root paste in a small quantity with milk given to increases the semen, to cure barrenness in women and all diseases of female genital track.