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| Tribulus terrestris - Gokshura |
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Indian Vernacular Names | |
Bengali | Gokuri |
Common | Small caltops, |
English | Land caltrops |
Hindi | Gokharu |
Malayalam | Nerinjil |
Marathi | Kante gokaru |
Sanskrit | Gokshura. Trikantaka |
Tamil | Nerinjil |
Telugu | Palleru |
Urdu | Gokhru |
Gokshura is cooling in nature. Sweet in taste and have the strengthening in action. Tribulus terrestris cleans the bladder. It increases appetite and in an aphrodisiac. It promotes plumpiness and cures urinary stones.
Gokshuram is given in Rheumatisms along with sonthi regularly every morning as a decoction and as an aphrodisiac boiled with milk and sugar. in consumption along with aswagandha and milk. It is combined with gugulu in the treatment of diabetes and vata diseases.
Dose :- 1 tola of the seeds of the whole plant to be taken as a decoction boiled with 8 times the quantity of water and reduced to one-fouth or 20 to 60 grains of the churnam or powder to be taken with ghee or honey or coconut water or liquid extract of coconut roots and flowers and sugar.
Action : - Non- irritant diuretic and urinary antiseptic, alternative, demulcent and aphrodisiac.
Uses : - an infusion or decoctin is used to relieve painful micturation to increase the flow of urine and as a vehicle for diuretic medicines in dysuria, gonorrhea and other urinary disorders and for the relief of nocturnal emissions and incontinence of urine. In impotence or sexual debility, it is given with milk and sugar or ghee and sugar according to the strength of digestion. the leaf made into a curry is used in dropsy
Gokshura is a procumbent annual or perennial herb with many spreading slender branches, the immature portions covered in a fine silky hair.
Leaves are oppositely arranged, pinnate, with 3-8 eight simple leaflets that are almost sessile to the leaf stem, with appressed hairs below, and to a lesser extent above.
Flowers - solitary yellow flowers have five petals, and are borne in the leaf axils, on hairy pedicles up to 2 cm long. Fruits - are globose, comprised of five woody cocci that bear two pairs of sharp spines, each cocci containing several
seeds.
Part used: Fruit and root.
AYURVEDIC PROPERTIES
Rasa: Madhura
Vipaka: Madhura
Virya: Shita, Snigdha
Karma: Dipana, pachana, bhedana, krimiaghna, chedana, kasahara, svasahara, kusthaghna
vedanasthapana, mutravirechana, ashmaribhedana, mutravishodhana, shothahara,
dahaprashamana, raktaprasadana,
hrdaya, vajikarana, balya, tridoshahara
Prabhava: Sattvic
