The plant contains triterpene saponins - Shatavarin I - IV, which are phytoestrogen compounds. The roots are bitter, sweet, emollient, antispasmodic, cooling, demulcent, diuretic, nervine, tonic, constipating or antidiarrhetic, opthalimic, galactagogue, nutritive, mucilaginous, refrigerant, anobyne, aphrodisiac, stomachic and antidysenteric . They are useful in nervous disorders, dyspepsia, tumours, scalding of urine, throat infections, tuberclosis, cough bronchitis, general debility, muscle spasms, rheumatism, stomach ulcers, hematemesis, cancer - strengthens one from and for chemotherapy, convalescence, dehydration, diarrhea, dysentery, chronic fevers, herpes, hyperacidity, Immune system boost-good for AIDS, impotence, infertility, leucorrhea and menopause.
The roots are bitter, sweet, emollient, antispasmodic, cooling, demulcent, diuretic, nervine, tonic, constipating or antidiarrhetic, opthalimic, galactagogue, nutritive, mucilaginous, refrigerant, anobyne, aphrodisiac, stomachic and antidysenteric . They
