Gentiana kurroo Royle.Family: Gentianaceae
Common names: Himalayan Gentian, Indian Gentian Root
Ayurvedic names: Traayamaana, Traayanti, Traayanta, Traayantikaa, Neelkanthi, Anujaa, Girijaa, Girishaanujaa, Balbhra, Paalani.
Unani: Ghaafis
Kannada: Karadihanni, kiriyatu
Hindi: Karu,chireta
Tamil: kampantirai
Telugu: Buroni
Uses: Sialagogue, digestant, appetite-stimulant, antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory, emmenagogue. Used for alkalosis, feeble digestion in the elderly from gastric acid deficiency (increases gastric juices without altering PH); also used for jaundice, nausea, vomiting, travel sickness, diarrhoea, malaria and nervous exhaustion.
Fever,wounds,skindisease,diarrhoea,cough,hepes,psuedo abdominal tumours,sprue.
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