Asparagus racemosus (SATHAVARI). TAXONOMY, MEDICINAL PROPERTIES, DOSAGES, CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE

Asparagus racemosus (SATHAVARI). TAXONOMY, MEDICINAL PROPERTIES, DOSAGES, CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE

1. CULTIVATION OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC
PLANTS
(FPU-512)
AN ASSIGNMENT ON:
Asparagus racemosus(SATHAVARI)
SUBMITTED TO:
College of Forestry
O.U.A.T., Bhubaneswar

2. SATAVARI
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Asparagoideae
Genus: Asparagus
Species: A.racemosus

3. Latin name –ASPARAGUS RACEMOSUS
English name –ASPARAGUS, WILD ASPARAGUS,
ASPARAGUS ROOT
Indian name–SATAVARI
DISTRIBUTION –THROUGHOUT INDIA, NEPAL AND SRI LANKA
•Satavariin Sanskrit means
•“one who possesses a hundred husbands”,
•it has an immense rejuvenating action on the
reproductive system.
•The plant has a plethora of rhizomes which
topologically symbolize the fertility of the female
reproductive system.

4. In Ayurveda this is known as the "Queen of
Herbs"because it promotes love and devotion
•Shatavarihas a strong rejuvenating, nurturing, and stabilizing
effect on excessive air, gas, dryness and agitation in the body and
mind.
•As such it is traditionally used for nervousness, anorexia,
insomnia, hyperactive children, and people who are underweight.
•It promotes positive emotions while calming airy sensitivity and
the fiery emotions such as irritability, anger, jealousy, resentment,
and hatred.
•It also helps with pain, agitated sleep, disturbing dreams, and
those who have weak emotional and physical heart.
•Asparagus racemosusis a potent immunostimulant; Well-
established pharmacological properties of Asparagus racemosus
include adaptogenic, antioxidant, antiallergic, immunostimulation,
uterine relaxation, anticancer, antiulcer, antimicrobial.

5. •Effective uses :
•Female Uterine tonic useful for
gynecological problems
•Acts as a brain tonic
•Rejuvenator
•Enhances fertility
•Enhances lactose production

6. Home Remedies
•Used in Continental dishes as a vegetable with high nutritive value
•The juice of Satavari, 1tsp daily, is taken during the first trimester of
pregnancy to ensure good development of the foetus.
•The paste of Satavari(2 tsp) boiled in milk (100ml) taken for enhancing
breast milk production soon after delivery.
•The powder of Satavariroots (1tsp) taken with milk in cases of scanty
menstruation
•The powder of Satavari(1/2 tsp) with milk given to children enhances
strength and endurance.

7. Benefits of Asparagus
•The roots are bitter, sweet, emollient, antispasmodic, cooling,
demulcent, diuretic, nervine, tonic, constipating or antidiarrhetic,
opthalimic, galactagogue, nutritive, mucilaginous, refrigerant,
aphrodisiac, stomachic and antidysenteric.
•They are useful in nervous disorders, dyspepsia, tumours, scalding
of urine, throat infections, tuberculosis, cough bronchitis, general
debility, muscle spasms, rheumatism, stomach ulcers, hematemesis,
cancer -strengthens one from and for chemotherapy,
convalescence, dehydration, diarrhea, dysentery, chronic fevers,
herpes, hyperacidity, Immune system boost-good for AIDS,
impotence, infertility, leucorrhoea and menopause.

8. Dosage
•Asparagus Powder-3-6 grams per day.

9. PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
•Soil
•Fertile moist sandy loam soils are ideal
•• Generally, the crop prefers lateritic, red loamy soils, with
adequate drainage.
•• Being a shallow rooted crop, it can be easily grown under
such shallow and rocky soils where the soil depth is hardly
20-30 cm.
•Better root development is seen in soil with large proportion
of sand.
•A decline in the yield of the crop is noticed in soils containing
previous years residue of the roots

10. •Climate
•Can grow in wide rang of tropical and sub-tropical climate.
•• The crop survives under varied agro-climatic conditions
ranging from temperate to tropical hill regions.
•• It can be grown in moderate hills like Shevroys, Kolliand
Kalrayanhills and
•medium elevations of Western Ghathills under condition
where the elevations are
•between 800 to 1500 m above MSL. It tolerates drought
as well as low temperature.
Varieties
There is no named variety developed so far in this crop.

11. LAND PREPARATION
•Land is ploughed well with onset of
monsoon in June-July
•Soil should be prepared by digging
up to 15 cm
•The field is divided into conveniently
sized plots and laid out into ridges at
60 cm apart
•Well developed suckers are then
planted on the ridges

12. Cultivation
Planting
•It is propagated by root suckers or seeds. For
commercial cultivation, root suckers are preferred over
seeds.
•The soil is prepared well by digging up to 15 cm depth.
•The field is divided into convenient sized plots and laid
out into ridges at 60 cm apart.
•Well developed root suckers are planted on the ridges.

13. IRRIGATION AND INTERCULTURE
•The field is irrigated immediately after planting. It is continued
at 4-6 days interval until a month and thereafter at weekly
interval.
•Frequent weeding is required during its early period of
growth.
•Care should be taken to avoid any damage to growing shoots
at the time of weeding. Totally, about 6-8 hand weeding is
needed to keep crop free of weeds.
•The crop being a climber requires support for its proper
growth. For this purpose,4-6 feet long stakes are used to
support the general growth.
•In large scale plantation, the plants are trailed on brush wood
pegged in alternaterows.

14. Plant Protection
•No serious pest and disease has been noticed in this crop.
Harvesting and Yield
The roots come to maturity in about 12-14 months after planting
depending upon the soil and climatic conditions.
A single plant may yield about 500 to 600 g of fresh root. On an
average, 12,000 to 14,000 kg of fresh roots can be harvested
from one hectare area which on drying may yield about 1000 to
1200 kg of dried

15. CONCLUSION
•Numerous studies have been conducted on
different parts of A. racemosus, this plant has
developed as a drug by pharmaceutical industries.
•A detailed and systematic study is required for
identification, cataloguing and documentation of
plants, which may provide a meaningful way for
promoting traditional knowledge of the medicinal
herbal plant.

16. REFERENCES
•Alok, Shashi; Jain, Sanjay Kumar; Verma, Amita; Kumar,
Mayank; Mahor, Alok; Sabharwal, Monika (2013-06-01).
"Plant profile, phytochemistryand pharmacology of
Asparagus racemosus(Shatavari)
•Wikipedia . Asparagus racemosus. USA: Wikipedia;
[Online] available from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus_racemosus.