Our company offers the purest and most natural cyperus rotundus which is known widely for its fragrance. The tuberous rhizome is slightly fragrant and contains essential oil. The fragrance resembles lemon and cardamom. Its tubers are used as perfume for clothing and as a means to repel insects. Tubers contain fat, sugar, gum and carbohydrates, albuminous matter starch, fiber and ash, and traces of an . Cyperus rotundus is capable of dissolving several times its weight of lecithin and other amino acid substances associated with the formation of calculi.
common name
nagarmotha, balisanga ; barsanga ; boto-botones
scientific name
cyperus rotundus
herb description
slender, erect glabrous perennial, 10 to 40 centimeters highrhizomes are wiry bearing black, hard, ovoid tubers, which are about 1 centimeter in diameterstems are usually solitary, 3-angled aboveleaves are 5 to 15 centimeters long or sometimes as long as the stemsthe umbel is simple or compound, 2 to 6 centimeters longthe spikes are dense or rather lax, of from 3 to 8 spikeletsthe spikelets are brown, slender, 10 to 25 floweredthe glumes are 2.5 to 3 millimeters long, closely or loosely imbricatethe nuts are obovoid or oblong, black and granulate
medicinal benefits
roots are used medicinally as a diaphoreticis an astringenta stimulant and good herbal tonica demulcentthe tubers are used also as a tonic, stimulant, and a stomachicapplied to the breast in the form of paste or warm plaster as a galactagoguewhen dried, they are applied to spreading ulcersgiven to women in childbirth and to infants for digestiontubers are used for liver complaints with icterusfor malariafor headachesgiven for urinary disorders

Our company offers the purest and most natural cyperus rotundus which is known widely for its fragrance. The tuberous rhizome is slightly fragrant and contains essential oil. The fragrance resembles lemon and cardamom. Its tubers are used as perfume for clothing and as a means to repel insects. Tubers contain fat, sugar, gum and carbohydrates, albuminous matter starch, fiber and ash, and traces of an . Cyperus rotundus is capable of dissolving several times its weight of lecithin and other amino acid substances associated with the formation of calculi.
common name
nagarmotha, balisanga ; barsanga ; boto-botones
scientific name
cyperus rotundus
herb description
slender, erect glabrous perennial, 10 to 40 centimeters highrhizomes are wiry bearing black, hard, ovoid tubers, which are about 1 centimeter in diameterstems are usually solitary, 3-angled aboveleaves are 5 to 15 centimeters long or sometimes as long as the stemsthe umbel is simple or compound, 2 to 6 centimeters longthe spikes are dense or rather lax, of from 3 to 8 spikeletsthe spikelets are brown, slender, 10 to 25 floweredthe glumes are 2.5 to 3 millimeters long, closely or loosely imbricatethe nuts are obovoid or oblong, black and granulate
medicinal benefits
roots are used medicinally as a diaphoreticis an astringenta stimulant and good herbal tonica demulcentthe tubers are used also as a tonic, stimulant, and a stomachicapplied to the breast in the form of paste or warm plaster as a galactagoguewhen dried, they are applied to spreading ulcersgiven to women in childbirth and to infants for digestiontubers are used for liver complaints with icterusfor malariafor headachesgiven for urinary disorders