Anjwar Herbs/Anjbar Roots (अन्जवार) : Anjwar Herbs is a plant related to buckwheat and dock. It is also called prostrate knotweed, bird weed, pigweed and low grass. It is an annual found in fields and wasteland, with white flowers from June to October.

Anjwar Herbs is widespread across many countries in temperate regions, apparently native to Eurasia and North America, naturalized in temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere. It is also called Knotgrass.

Anjwar Herbs has spreading stems that can reach up to one meter long that stay low to the ground. Anjwar Herbs is most often recognize as appearing in a somewhat of a spinally-circular growth that has small leaves and tiny white flowers.

Anjwar is an herb. The whole flowering plant is use to make medicine. In Asia, Anjbar Roots is use in the rural medicines to cure many diseases such as Bronchitis, cough, lung diseases, skin diseases, decreasing sweating with tuberculosis, increasing urine, redness, swelling, and bleeding of the gums, mouth, and throat; and preventing or stopping bleeding.

Modern herbalists use it to treat dysentery, excessive menstrual flow, lung disorders, bronchitis and jaundice, and gall and kidney stones.

Anjwar Herbs is consider to be astringent, diuretic, emetic, purgative, vulnerary and styptic. It has been used for centuries in folk medicine for diarrhea, coughs, bronchial catarrh, inflammations of the mouth and upper respiratory tract, liver and kidney disorders. The decoction made from Knotgrass was administer to kill worms. The fresh juice has been use for nose bleed. An ointment made from the plant is an excellent remedy for sores.

No Vaidya is unaware that the root of “Anjwar Herbs” is a sure cure for Haemetemesis, blood diarrhea & metrorrhagia or menorrhagia & bleeding piles. ESSENTIALS TO BE BORN IN MIND- There are some essential things about Herbs, without knowing which any person even on recognizing the Herbs cannot derive full benefit out of them.

Although there is a particular time for uprooting the Herbs, yet ignorant persons uproot them immediately on recognizing them. Therefore if untimely uprooting of Herbs fails to produce the desire results, the Herb is not to be blame. The fault lies with the uproot who forays into the domain of Ayurveda without knowing its intricacies.