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Gokshura
Gokshura (Sanskrit ) - Tribulus
terrestris L.
Botanical Description of Tribulus
terrestris L
| BOTONICAL
NAME |
Tribulus terrestris
L.
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| FAMILY |
ZYGOPHYLLACEAE
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| STRUCTURE |
Mature plant:
Prostrate with stems up to 2m long. Leaves are opposite, each
consisting of 4-8 pairs of spear shaped leaflets. There are long
hairs on the leaf margins and lower surface. Stems are round and
hairy. Flowers are yellow
Seeds: Enclosed in a woody star-shaped structure 5-7 mm
long and 5-6 mm wide (carpels). Up to five seeds in each carpel
each seed 1.5-3 mm long, yellow. Each plant can have upwards of
2000 seeds
Seedlings:
Cotyledons are narrow oval, round apex and hairless. Immature
plants have leaves divided into pairs of hairy oval leaflets with
pointed apices
Flowers: Yellow, 8-15 mm diameter, 5 petals.
Fruit: Woody burr about 1 cm diameter with sharp spines to
6 mm long. Burr consists of 5 wedge shaped segments. Each segment
has 2 unequal pairs of spines.
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| HABITAT |
Prefers light textured soils
but will grow over a wide range of soil types. In Australia it is
a weed of cultivated crops, overgrazed pastures, stockyards,
roadsides, lawns and neglected areas.
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| PHARMACOLOGY |
Tribestan is a completely natural non-hormonal herbal (phytochemical)
biostimulator derived from the plant Tribulus terrestris L.,
Bulgaricum, which contains predominantly saponins of furostanol
type, with prevailing quantity of protodioscin (not less than 45%
in Tribestan). It is a natural herbal alternative to synthetic
anabolic hormones without any clinically proven toxic effects.
Tribestan administration leads to
increased muscle mass in active sports by activating the enzyme
associated with energy metabolism. At the same time it has also
been reported to have the ability to stimulate some functions
associated with the increase of the body's natural endogenous
testosterone and lutenizing hormone (LH) levels. With the increase
of the body's natural endogenous testosterone level, it can help
alleviating some symptoms associated with male menopause
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| CHEMICAL
COMPOSITION |
Contains
alkaloid - Harman & Harmine |
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World distribution: |
Australia, South Africa and
Middle East |
Ayurvedic Description of 'Gokshura-
Tribulus terrestris
L.
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SANSKRIT
NAME |
Sanskrit name gokshura,
shuuadamshtra, swadukantaka, trikantaka, vanashrungata,
chanadhruma, ikshugandhika. |
LOCAL
NAMES
(in India) |
Gokharu (Hindi), Gokuri (Bengali), Kante gokaru (Marathi),Land
caltrops (English), |
PROPERTIES
(ayurvedic) |
Guna
:- guru,snigdha
Rasa :- madhura
Veerya :-sheeta
Vipaka :- madhura |
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KARMA
(Action) |
Normalize vatta &
pitta. a very good aphrodisiacs, diuretic anti informatory widely
used in conditions of ED, piles, cough, bronchitis habitual
and threaded abash ion calculi, cystitis and general weakness.
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