{"title":"USHEERA (Vetiveria zizanioides Linn. Nash): A DRUG REVIEW","authors":"J. Keerthana, Prakash L Hegde, Vijay Javagal","doi":"10.7897/2277-4572.096189","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Usheera (Vetiveria zizanioides Linn. Nash) possesses a great therapeutic value in the traditional Ayurvedic medicine and is widely distributed in India. Apart from the medicinal value, the culms are used for sweeping, scenting clothes and also as soil binders. In Ayurvedic literature, the plant has been mentioned from Veda Kala to Nighantu Kala. Hence in a view of immense medicinal importance of the plant this review is therefore compile all the information related to Usheera.","PeriodicalId":16738,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pharmaceutical and Scientific Innovation","volume":"52 1","pages":"156-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Pharmaceutical and Scientific Innovation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7897/2277-4572.096189","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Usheera (Vetiveria zizanioides Linn. Nash) possesses a great therapeutic value in the traditional Ayurvedic medicine and is widely distributed in India. Apart from the medicinal value, the culms are used for sweeping, scenting clothes and also as soil binders. In Ayurvedic literature, the plant has been mentioned from Veda Kala to Nighantu Kala. Hence in a view of immense medicinal importance of the plant this review is therefore compile all the information related to Usheera.