Description
ROUGH CHAPP TREE (ACHYRANTHES ASPERA)
Botanically the herb is known as Achyranthes aspera and belongs to the family Amaranthaceae. The whole plant is considered as medicinally important but the roots of the plant generally more effective due to the presence of triterpenoid saponins.
Achyranthes Aspera is used in the treatment of boils, asthma, in facilitating delivery, bleeding, bronchitis, debility, dropsy, cold, colic, cough, dog bite, snake bite, scorpion bite, dysentery, earache, headache, leukoderma, renal complications, pneumonia, and skin diseases.
It possesses valuable medicinal properties and used in treatment of cough, bronchitis and rheumatism, malarial fever, dysentery, asthma, hypertension and diabetes in Indian folklore. Present study was designed to evaluate anti-inflammatory activity of an aqueous extracts of Achyranthes aspera (AEAA).
