An annual grass. Culms up to 90 cm. high, often tufted, with a very short rhizome, leafy from the base upwards; leaves two ranked, stiff and erect, 15-45 cm.x 2-8 mm.; inflorescence of two or more sessile alternate spikes.

PIER

Arginine, histidine, iso leucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine

For corneal opacity (stem)

Sharma PV. Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.