Indrayan Root (Citrullus Colocynthis)

We offer our patrons top quality Indrayan Root (Citrullus Colocynthis). A scabrid perennial twining herb or climber, usually prostate, or spreading on ground with slender stem and bifid hairy tendrils. Roots deep, branched, stout, dull-yelllowish o rpale brown, smooth, cylindrical.
This Indrayan Root (Citrullus colocynthis) is available in cut pieces of 2 - 7 cm long, 0.2 - 2.5 cm thick, cylindrical, slightly twisted; dull yellow; longitudinal fissures present; fracture short; taste intensively bitter. In Fruit is bitter, emetic, cathartic, diuretic, expectorant and alterative. Used in chronic constipation, dropsy, fever, piles, asthma, jaundice and as hair tonic.Found in sandy soils throughout India upto 1500m mainly in Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.