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  1. blank one marcus says:

    nice info BUT you owe it to all people whom may be searching to give the latin name so that individuals can be sure to find the right plant!! no herb or plant should written on benefits without such info. HUGE mistakes are often made without it.

  2. See the two links given at the end of this article for the Latin species names.

  3. blank Khun Siwalai says:

    Interesting article, here in Thai People use it in flavoring the Rice, do you have any other suggestions as to how to obtain maximum benefits, applications, dosage etc?

  4. blank Gurcharan Singh says:

    I am really disappointed to read this page on which you are talking about an important Ayurvedic drug but mixing up two plants simply because they have same common name Shankhpushpi. The plant of which you have shown the photograph is Clitoria ternatea a member of pea family (Fabaceae), the generic names explains its shape, it is a herb with trifoliate leaves found climbing over walls and with pea like pods, often grown as ornamental.
    The Shankhpushpi the famous Ayurvedic plant is Convolvulus prostratus (syn: Convolvulus pluricaulis, C. micrphyllus; and not Convolvulus arvensis as sometimes reported, which has large hastate leaves and larger flowers), it is a prostrate herb from family Convolvulaceae with small simple linear leaves and white or pale pink funnel-shaped flowers. I am uploading the same so that you can correct your information.

    1. Ayurvedic doctors themselves disagree which plant is the traditional medicine. The researchers of “Comparative pharmacognostical investigation on four ethanobotanicals traditionally used as Shankhpushpi in India” by Sethiya NK1, Trivedi A, Patel MB, Mishra SHas J Adv Pharm Technol Res. 2010 Oct;1(4):388-95, like the prior 1988 Study by Gian Singh Aulakh, Sharada Narayanan, and Geeta Mahadevan, as the titles indicates, had to test four different plants. This is not a shortcoming of Naturalsociety or the author, but of the Ayurvedic medical field itself.

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