Botanical name: Wedelia calendulacea
Bhringraj
Healing power:
Wedelia calendulacea contains wedelolactones with good liverprotecting and antibiotical qualities.
Therefore in India it is used as livermedicine.
The plant helps to treat
- diabetes,
- low blood pressure,
- diseases of gall bladder,
- hepatitis.
- It even ensures cancer inhibition and is used as a common beneficial to the health.
Description of the plant:
Bhringraj is an Ayurvedic herb, a tender perennial and cannot withstand frost. The plant creeps and doesn`t grow up into the air. It gets yellow flowers.
The soil should be damp and well dunged.
Bhringraj grows at sunny locations as well as at shady locations. The plant is easy to handle as a house plant.
How to use:
You take the fresh juice internally.
Propagation:
By layer
You cut the stem into pieces and than put them into water. They build roots. Or you start seeds anytime during the year in pots or flats containing a moist soil.
Bhringraj with roots
