{"id":29950,"date":"2025-02-08T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29950"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:38:57","slug":"shatavari-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shatavari-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatavari Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shatavari Plant Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>In a bid to raise awareness about the health benefits of medicinal plants, a species-specific campaign titled \u201cShatavari \u2013For Better Health&#8221; was launched by the Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Ayush.<\/p>\n<h2>About Shatavari Plant<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Asparagus racemosus<\/strong> (family Asparagaceae) also known by the name Shatavari is one of the well-known drugs in Ayurveda.<\/li>\n<li>Shatavari means <strong>\u201cacceptable to many\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It belongs to the family<strong> Liliaceae<\/strong> and is commonly known as <strong>Satawar or Satamuli.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Appearance of Shatavari Plant: <\/strong>It is a <strong>woody climber<\/strong> growing to 1-2 m in height. The leaves are like pine needles, small and uniform and the flowers are white and have small spikes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat and Distribution of Shatavari Plant: <\/strong>Its habitat is common at low altitudes in shade and in tropical climates throughout Asia, Australia and Africa.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In Ayurveda, this amazing herb is known as the <strong>\u201cQueen of herbs\u201d,<\/strong> because it promotes love and devotion.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charak Samhita <\/strong>written by Charak and <strong>Ashtang Hridyam <\/strong>written by Vagbhata, the two main texts on Ayurvedic medicines, <strong>list Asparagus racemosus<\/strong> (A. racemosus) as part of the formulas to treat women&#8217;s health disorder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses of Shatavari Plant:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The dried roots of the plant are <strong>used as drug.<\/strong> The roots are said to be tonic and diuretic and galactgogue, the drug has ulcer healing effect probably via strenthening the mucosal resistance or cytoprotection.<\/li>\n<li>This herb is highly effective in problems related with <strong>female reproductive system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Shatavari Plant FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is the main use of Shatavari?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Shatavari powder treats gastric ulcers and might prevent future ulcers from forming. Supports lactation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>What is the English name for the Shatavari plant?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Asparagus racemosus (A. racemosus) belongs to family Liliaceae and commonly known as Satawar, Satamuli,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong> Where is Shatavari found in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> In India it is found in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Kerala and Punjab.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2100345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shatavari Plant belongs to family Liliaceae and commonly known as Satawar or Satamuli<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}