Identity:
This plant closely resembles Kulekhara greens commonly found in our country. It is thorny, and its leaves are rectangular with spiny edges. The inflorescences are clustered, with both large and small bracts arranged in two layers.
The plant flowers first and then produces seeds. The seeds are flat and shaped somewhat like the human heart. Their surface is rough and covered with long hairs.
The small ghee-colored seeds swell on contact with a little water, and the hairs expand, making them look somewhat like insects.
Uses:
There are very few herbal medicines comparable to Uchchata. If a decoction of Uchchata is mixed with one spoon of ghee, sugar, one sparrow’s egg, and a cup of warm milk and consumed, it is believed to stimulate male virility.
Taking one spoon of Uchchata leaf juice every morning increases seminal fluid in the body.
Consuming one spoon of the plant’s decoction every morning is believed to permanently cure nocturnal emissions (spermatorrhea).
In addition, this plant is used in the treatment of several other ailments.
