Arrow Root
The scientific name of Arrow Root: Maranta arundinaceae Linn.
Family: Zingiberaceae
Name of Arrow Root in different languages:-
Sanskrit: Tuvaksheeri, Tugaksheeri, Tavaksri
English: Arrowroot, Bermuda arrowroot, West Indian arrowroot, obedience plant.
Malayalam: കൂവ-Koova, മഞ്ഞകൂവ-Manjakkova, Vellakoova, Channakkova-ചണ്ണകൂവ, kochikoova
Hindi: Tikhor
Bengali: Ararut
Kannada: Kuvehittu, Tavaksiri
Tamil: Kuva; Araruttukkilangu
Telungu: Palagunta
Tamil: Aruruttukkilangu, kookai neer
Plant description:
Arrow Root or India-Arrow root is an erect, perennial herb growing up to 2 feet tall, the leaves are green, ovate-oblong, alternate, with long, leafy, hairy sheaths, size up to 8-10 inches long, oppositely arranged, ovate, lanceolate, slightly hairy; the flowers are small white. The flowers are white, and in terminal panicle, it dispose in a long, lax, spreading, linear, sheathing bracts, at the ramifications. Rhizomes are the useful part of the plant, which is yellowish-white, the root stock are dug when the plant is one-year-old, and size up to 30 cm in length and 19 mm in diameter.
Leaf Arrangement
| Shape-Linear-elongatd | Margin-Entire | Venation-reticulate |
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Useful plant parts:
Rhizome
Medicinal uses:
It is used in dysentery, diarrhea, cough, dyspepsia, bronchitis, nourishing food for infants, invalids. Main ingredient in biscuits, cakes, puddings, jellies and faces powders, bowel complaints, to get energy and vigor,
Chemical contents:
Vitamin A, demulcent properties.
Medicinal properties:
Demulcent, Astringent, refrigerant, expectorant, aphrodisiac
How to prepare medicines:
West-Indian Arrowroot's dried rhizome powder can use as a health mix, easily digested, nourishing diet for convalescents, especially in bowel complaints.
Used as an ingredient in the Ayurveda medicines like:-
Eladi Ghrita
Dadimashtaka choornam
Sithopaladi Choornam
Nalpaamaradi Keram
Chavyana Prasham
Drakshadi lehyam
Shatavari Gulam
Marma Vattu
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