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Specimen profile
Elephant Foot Yam
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius · Araceae
Skt · Surana — “Tuber that gladdens or brings strength after pacifying piles”Hindi · JimikandMal · ChenaTam · Senai Kizhangu
The quintessential Araceous corm famed for its potent anti-hemorrhoidal and digestive properties.
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Amorphophallus paeoniifolius is a robust perennial herb featuring a single massive tripartite umbrella-like umbrella leaf and a bell-shaped spathe enclosing a fleshy spadix. Its giant subterranean corm stores abundant starches and trace minerals. Regarded in classical texts as the supreme dietary drug for arshas (hemorrhoids), it stimulates liver enzymes and improves intestinal tone.
Identification markers
Massive depressed globose underground corm; single mottled greenish stem topped with tripartite leaflets; large reddish-purple spadix flower.
Rasa
Katu, Kashaya
Guna
Laghu, Ruksha, Teekshna
Virya
Ushna
Vipaka
Katu
Prabhava
Arshoghna
Dosha effect
KV- P+
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