Yanai Nerunjil / Large Caltrops Dried (Raw)

Yanai Nerunjil / Large Caltrops Dried (Raw) - 100 gm

Botanical Name : Pedalium Murex English Name : Large Caltrops Tamil Name : Yaanai Nerunjil Hindi Name : bara Gokhru Malayalam Name : Ananerinnil Telugu Name : palleru

About :
Large Caltrops is a shrubby, stiff-stemmed herb, native to India, grown for reputed medicinal and other uses. It is diffuse annual, much-branched, spreading, succulent, glandular, up to 60 cm tall. Roots similar to turmeric in color. Leaves simple, opposite, ovate or oblong-obovate, 1-4.5 cm long, irregularly and coarsely crenate-serrate. Yellow flowers 1.5-2 cm across, stalk 1-2 mm long, increasing up to 4 mm in fruit. Sepals 2 mm long; teeth linear, scaly outside, persistent. Petals fused into a broad tube, 1-3 cm long. The four angled seed is with 5 extremely sharp spines. It is an important famine food - leaves eaten as a vegetable.

Benefits :
Large Caltrops are used for curing incontinence, impotency, burning during urination, arthritis, gonorrhea, dysuria, leucoderma, piles & spleen enlargement. It is extremely beneficial in nervine weakness, inflammation, constipation, body pains, muscular strength and respiratory problems.