Tribulus terrestris
Tribulus terrestris
Author : L..
Family : Zygophyllaceae

Habit: Herb
Sanskrit: Gokshurah, Svadamshtra
English: Land-caltrops, Puncture-vine
 
Description
A prostrate to procumbent, annual herb, with paripinnate leaves, 5-7 pairs of subequal, oblong to linear-oblong leaflets, leaf-opposed, solitary, yellow flowers and globose, tuberculate fruits, consisting of 5 woody cocci, each with 2 long and 2 short, hard, sharp, divaricate spines, containing several seeds.
Useful part

Whole plant
Medicinal Uses

Worm infestations, cough, asthma, consumption, inflammations, heart diseases, anaemia, scabies, eye diseases, general weakness, gonorrhoea, leprosy, skin diseases, general weakness, impotency, painful micturition, urinary troubles, rheumarthritis, coronary heart disease
Major chemical constituents

Chlorogenin, diosgenin, gitogenin, astragalin, dioscin, 3-deoxy-δ-diosgenin, gracillin, hecogenin, ruscogenin, trillin, furostanol glycoside, spirosterol saponin, dihydroxy spirosteroidal sapogenin, terrestroside F, saponins C & G, kaempferol, kaempferol-3-glucoside, kaempferol-3-rutinoside, kaempferol-3-β-D-(6”-p-coumaroyl)-glucoside, glucose, rhamnose, rutin, neogitogenin, quercetin, reducing sugars, campesterol, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, amino acids, harmine, harmaline, harman, tetrahydroharmine, terrestriamide & 7-methylhydroindanone-1, tribulusamide A & B, neotigogenin, amino acids, supinene