Tribulus Terrestris

 Family Name : ZYGOPHYLLACEAE 

Botanical Name : TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS 

Common Name : LAND CALTROPS, PUNCTURE VINE, GOKHRU 

Part Used : WHOLE PLANT, SEEDS 

Uses : The roots and fruits are sweet, coling, emollient, appetizer, alternate, laxative, cardiotonic, styptic, lithontriptic and tonic. They are useful in strangury, dysuria, vitiated conditions of vat and pitta, renal and vesical calculi, anorexia, dyspepsia, helminthiasis, cough, asthama. The seeds are astringent, strengthening and are useful in epistaxis, hemorrhages and ulcerative stomatitis. The ash of the whole plant is good for external application in rheumarthritis.