Oct 05, 2024
Oct 05, 2024
All medicinal plants, as you are fulfilled with flowers and fruits and you bless all diseased, so make them free from disease, said by one of the ancient Acharya. One of them is Musta (Cyperus rotundus Linn.) which grows everywhere in the vicinity of water.
Mustak a best medicine for digestive system is a shrub belonging to grass variety in height from 0.3 to 1 metre. It has long thin leaves similar to grass. Flowers are in clusters and originate from tip. Fruits are long. Roots are blackish, aromatic, 2-3 cm thick.
Useful part
Rhizomic Roots are used for medicinal purpose both internally and externally. Chemically it contains fat, sugar, gum, starch, albumin, salt, aromatic oils etc.
Properties:
Rasa: Tikta Veerya: Sheeta Vipaka: Katu
Uses:
It is a good Appetiser, Digestive, Astringent, Anthelmintic, Diuretic , etc.
Medicinal uses:
Some medicinal uses of Mustak are as follows
Fever:
Diarrhoea:
In this way a small medicine but having potential to cure diseases and hence it’s name is MUSTA.(means to kill disease pathogenesis).
References:
1)Vanoushadhi Chandrodaya
2)Nighantu Adarsh
3)Text book of Ayurvedic pharmacology and Therupetic uses of Medicinal Plants
28-Aug-2013
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