It is a perennial gregarious grass with glabrous and erect culms. Leaves are linear-filiform, glaucous beneath, often reduced to midrib, scabrid on the margin and 0.1 to 0.4 cm broad. The sheaths are auriculate and glabrous except hairy throat. Panicle is silvery white upto 45 cm long. Joints and pedicels are ciliate and 0.2 to 0.3 cm long. Sessile spikelets are linear and lanceolate.
Herb Effects
The entire plant is considered as laxative and aphrodisiac.
An extract of the plant is given in burning sensation, phthisis, blood diseases, vesical calculi, biliousness and hemorrhagic diathesis. Besides, its roots are known as diuretic.
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