Other Names :

Tamil

Shiru-kadaladi ; Nayuruvi

English

Rough chaff tree

Telugu

Uttaraene ; Antisha

Malayalam

Uttaranee

Kannada

Aghada

Hindi

Aghata ; Khara-manjari 

Sanskrit

Kadaladi ; Katalati

Small herb found all over India. It is quite easily identified when fully matured. Long spikes bearing several very small greenish-white flowers which stand upright.

Stomach ache and bowel complaints, piles, boils, skin eruptions, diarrhoea and dysentery.

The leaf juice is also useful in stomach ache and bowel complaints, piles, boils, skin eruptions etc, in large doses it produces abortion or labour pains. A decoction of powdered leaves with honey or sugarcandy, is useful in the early stages of diarrhoea and dysentery. Fresh leaves ground into a paste with jaggery or mixed with black pepper and garlic and made into pills are used as antiperiodic especially in quartan fevers ; leaves rubbed into a paste with water are applied with much benefit to bites of poisonous insects, wasps, bees etc. A pinch of the root-powder with a pinch of pepper powder and honey is a nice remedy for cough. Seed rubbed with rice water is given in bleeding piles. Payasam or kheer made of seeds in milk is a good remedy for diseased brain. Root taken on Sunday conjoined with pushya naksbitra after bathing and kept hanging in a corner is used in stimulating labour pains and expendting delivery.