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Specimen profile
Indian Wild Sweet Potato
Dioscorea oppositifolia · Dioscoreaceae
Skt · Shringatika — “Possessing horn-like small tuberous lobes”Hindi · KasaluMal · Kattuvalli KizhanguTam · Siruvalli
A vital forest tuber used by indigenous traditions and classical vaidyas for replenishing depleted body mass.
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Dioscorea oppositifolia is a slender climber with ovate-lanceolate opposite leaves and small clusters of white to greenish flowers. The subterranean tubers grow vertically down, displaying fibrous skins and a creamy, starch-loaded interior. It serves as an underappreciated Ayurvedic stamina herb indicated in deep exhaustion and metabolic decline.
Identification markers
Opposite, glossy, ovate-elliptic leaves with curved parallel veins; slender non-winged stems; vertical cylindrical root tuber.
Rasa
Madhura
Guna
Guru, Snigdha
Virya
Sheeta
Vipaka
Madhura
Prabhava
Dhatupushtikara
Dosha effect
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