Description :
Wild Yam is a hairless vine, twining clockwise. Tubers are ligneous, irregular. Alternately arranged leaves are simple, 6-13.5 cm long, 4-10.5 cm broad, ovate or triangular-ovate, often heart-shaped, the basal lobes rounded or sometimes dilated outwards, 6-7-nerved, long-pointed, hairless above, velvety on the nerves beneath. Leaf-stalks are 5-10 cm long, slender. Male flower spikes occur solitary in leaf axils, simple or sometimes branched, slender, lax, 8.5-22 cm long.
Details :
Botanical Name :Dioscorea deltoidea
Common Name: Wild Yam
Hindi: Shingli-mingli, Baniatakari, Harvish, Janj, Jung kinch
Nepali Name: Bhyakur tarul
Medicinal Uses :
Wild Yam is a hairless vine, twining clockwise. Tubers are ligneous, irregular. Alternately arranged leaves are simple, 6-13.5 cm long, 4-10.5 cm broad, ovate or triangular-ovate, often heart-shaped, the basal lobes rounded or sometimes dilated outwards, 6-7-nerved, long-pointed, hairless above, velvety on the nerves beneath. Leaf-stalks are 5-10 cm long, slender. Male flower spikes occur solitary in leaf axils, simple or sometimes branched, slender, lax, 8.5-22 cm long.
Botanical Name :Dioscorea deltoidea
Common Name: Wild Yam
Hindi: Shingli-mingli, Baniatakari, Harvish, Janj, Jung kinch
Nepali Name: Bhyakur tarul
Medicinal Uses :
- This is widely used in modern medicine in order to manufacture progesterone and other steroid drugs.
- These are used as contraceptives and in the treatment of various disorders of the genitary organs as well as in a host of other diseases such as asthma and arthritis.
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