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Scientific name - Tribulus terrestris L. Synonyms -- Popular names - the old woman's teeth, Scale horse abrojos, Bullhead, bur nut, Mexican sandbur, Gokhru, Gokshura. Distribution and Habitat - originally from India, China, Vietnam, Europe and South Africa. Description - herbaceous annual, prostrata, with branches 80 cm long. Paripenat-compound leaves, 4-8 folio, oblong folio, 4.12 x 4 mm. Sepa 2-4 mm long. Petals 3.6 mm long. Stigma pyramidal-elongated. Blooms in May-September. Fruit capsule, 4-8 mm long, with 2 divergent spine 3.8 mm long and 2 short spine 1-4 mm long. Seeds 2-4. Properties and Uses - mature and dried fruit were placed in the pharmacopoeia of medicinal plants in India, in 2002, as a diuretic. Frunzele have astringent properties, diuretic, aphrodisiac, tonic and depurative. The fruits are astringent properties, anti-inflammatory, tonic, diuretic and aphrodisiac. The seeds are astringent and diuretic properties and sometimes help fertilization. References MS Premila - Ayurvedic Herbs - Haworth Press, 2006 Nambiar, VPK & Ramamnkutty - Indian Medicinal Plants - 1996 Zoe Merriman Kirkpatrick - Wildflowers of the Western Plains - University of Texas Press, 1992
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Tree, 15-20 m high and 0.7 m trunk diameter, with round crown and rich foliage. Strain usually crooked and gnarled, mature bark cracks forming small and irregular, gray-yellow color with lighter spots, characteristic. Young shoots, yellow-brown, buds sit opposite the gate, children, joined the stalk and Chile. Hamamelis mollis
Species from China (Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan), at altitudes of 800-1400 m, where grows beside Quercus serrata , Corylopsis sinensis , Castanea seguinii , Rhododendron simsii , Hosta ventricosa and Linder sp. . Acanthus mollis - Bear's Breeches
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