Apamarg Panchang/Chirchita Panchang (अपामार्ग पंचांग) : Apamarg Panchang (Achyranthes aspera) is a therapeutic herb which can be found all through India. It is utilizes customarily to treat different diseases the nation over. This Chirchita Panchang herb is additionally discovered Baluchistan, Ceylon, Tropical Asia, Africa, Australia and America.

Apamarg Panchang is a very common weed that is distributes throughout India. Tropical Asia and other parts of the world. It is use in preparation of Ayurvedic medicines and also as traditional medicine in Asia and Africa to treat various diseases. Such as leprosy, asthma, fistula, piles, arthritis, wound, insect and snake bite, renal and cardiac dropsy, kidney stone, diabetes, skin disorders, gynecological disorders, gonorrhea, malaria, pneumonia, fever, cough, pyorrhea, dysentery, rabies, hysteria, toothache, etc.

Apamarg Panchang is intense, sharp, warming, purgative, stomachic and carminative. It is utilizes to treat draining heaps, stomach related scatters, fever, hack, diarrhea, dropsy, bug chomp, psoriasis, loss of motion, spleen growth, stomach torments, wounds and so forth.

Clinical reviews demonstrate this plant contains alkaloids achyranthine and betaine which bring down pulse and heart rate by enlargement of veins. Its blossoms indicate diuretic exercises.

In India Apamarg Panchang, is available throughout the tropical and subtropical regions, under altitude of 4100 meters. This plant grows throughout the tropical and warmer regions of the world. This is also found in many other countries of Asia as well as Africa, America, Europe and Australia. It was reported as an invasive alien species in northern Bangladesh. It was found to be the most prevalent herb in Shivbari sacred grove of Himachal Pradesh and an exotic medicinal plant of district Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Apamarg Panchang Benefits:

Chirchita Panchang leaves paste is use in treatments of fevers, cough, insect bites, and bee stings. Its leaves juice is useful in skin problems. The seeds are use as expectorant, or mixer with rice water for bleeding hemorrhoids.

Dessert is prepare using its seeds in milk for the brain diseases. Seeds soak in water overnight and ground into an emulsion, next morning heals excessive bile secretion.

Plant is use as decoction, powder, paste, oil, infusion for medicinal purpose.

Anti-inflammatory, Anti-asthmatic and Antioxidant, Anti-spasmodic activity. Diuretic, Saponins from the plant have shown diuretic activity. The active compound responsible for the Chirchita Panchang diuretic property is achyranthine, market as Cystone, a polyherbal formulation from Himalaya.