Description
Description: Sarsaparilla is a species of plant that is found in South Asia It is a slender, laticiferous, twining, sometimes prostrate or semi-erect shrub. Roots are woody and aromatic. The stem is numerous, slender, terete, thickened at the nodes.
The leaves are opposite, short-petioled, very variable, elliptic-oblong to linear-lanceolate. The flowers are greenish outside, purplish inside, crowded in sub-sessile axillary cymes.
It occurs over the greater part of India, from the upper Gangetic plain eastwards to Assam and in some places in central, western and South India.
Botanical Name:
Hemidesmus indicus
Common Names: Honduran
sarsaparilla, and Jamaican sarsaparilla
Medicinal Part: Root
INCI Name: Hemidesmus Indicus Root
Safety Guidelines: Not recommended for use by persons taking blood thinning agents.
