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Gokharu Bharad: A Potential Misconception

Potential Alternatives

Based on similar sounding terms, here are some possibilities:

• Gokharu (Tribulus terrestris): This is a well-known Ayurvedic herb used for urinary health, reproductive health, and other conditions. It’s often available in powder (churna) or capsule form.
• Bharadwaj Rasayana: This is an Ayurvedic formulation containing a combination of herbs and minerals.

Gokharu (Tribulus terrestris)

If you meant Gokharu, it’s a valuable herb with the following potential benefits:

• • Urinary health: Helps with urinary tract infections and kidney stones.
  • Reproductive health: Supports male reproductive health.
  • Anti-inflammatory properties: Reduces inflammation in the urinary tract.

Tribulus terrestris is an annual plant in the caltrop family (Zygophyllaceae) widely distributed around the world.[3] It is adapted to thrive in dry climate locations in which few other plants can survive.

It is native to warm temperate and tropical regions in southern Eurasia and Africa. It has been unintentionally introduced to North America and Australia. An aggressive and hardy invasive species, T. terrestris is widely known as a noxious weed because of its small woody fruit – the bur – having long sharp and strong spines which easily penetrate surfaces, such as bare feet or thin shoes of crop workers and other pedestrians, the rubber of bicycle tires, and the mouths and skin of grazing animals.[3]

Names
Like many weedy species, this plant has numerous common names according to the world region,[3] including goathead, bull’s head, gopher-head, caltrop, cat-head, devil’s eyelashes, devil’s-thorn, devil’s-weed, puncturevine, and tackweed.[2][3][4]

Description

Tribulus terrestris habitus on a beach in the Philippines
Tribulus terrestris is a taprooted herbaceous plant that grows as a summer annual in temperate climates.[3]

Growth pattern
The stems radiate from the crown to a diameter of about 10 cm (3.9 in) to over 1 m (3 ft 3 in), often branching. They are usually prostrate, forming flat patches, though they may grow more upwards in shade or among taller plants.[3]

Leaves and stem

“Goathead” fruit

Germinating fruit of Tribulus terrestris

Dried Tribulus terrestris burs
Stems branch from the crown and are densely hairy.[3] Leaves are opposite and pinnately compound.[3] Densely hairy leaflets are opposite and up to 3 mm (0.12 in) long.[3]

Inflorescence
The flowers are 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) wide, with five lemon-yellow petals, five sepals, and ten stamens.[3] In Southern California, it blooms from April through October, where it is highly invasive in waste places and disturbed sites.[3]

Fruit

Thumbtack-like Tribulus terrestris burs are a hazard to bare feet and bicycle tires.
After the flower blooms, a fruit develops that easily falls apart into five burs.[3] The burs are hard and bear two to four sharp spines,[3] 10 mm (0.39 in) long and 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) broad point-to-point. These burs strikingly resemble goats’ or bulls’ heads, characteristics which give the bur its common names in some regions.[3][5] The “horns” are sharp enough to puncture bicycle tires and other air-filled tires.[3] They can also cause painful injury to bare feet and can injure the mouths of livestock grazing on the plant.[3][6]

Within each bur, seeds are stacked on top of each other, separated by a hard membrane.[3] As an adaptation to dry climates, the largest seed germinates first, while the others may wait until more moisture is available before germinating.[3] The bur spines point upward, where they stick into feet and fur of animals, serving the purpose of seed dispersal.[3] This causes damage to domesticated livestock and degrades wool.[3]

Tribulus terrestris burs in foot, Marfa, Texas
Range and habitat
T. terrestris is now widespread throughout the world from latitudes 35°S to 47°N.[3] It is distributed across warm temperate and tropical regions of southern Europe, southern Asia, throughout Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.[7] It is also present across southern North America and in Central and South America.[3] Over the 20th century, it appeared in California and became distributed northward, eventually appearing in British Columbia, Canada where it is classified as a noxious weed.[6]

A network of fine rootlets arise from the taproot allow the plant to survive in arid conditions.[3][6] It grows in almost any soil, but thrives in dry, loose, sandy soils, and even in sand or in deserts.[3] It can prosper in heavier soils, especially if fertile or moist, and on compacted soils along roadsides.[3]

Etymology
The Greek word, τρίβολος meaning ‘water-chestnut’,[8] translated into Latin as tribulos. The Latin name tribulus originally meant the caltrop (a spiky weapon of similar shape), but in Classical times the word already meant this plant as well.[9]

Cultivation
The plant is widely naturalized in the Americas and also in Australia south of its native range. In some states in the United States, it is considered a noxious weed and an invasive species.[2] It is a declared plant (infestations described under “caltrop”) in South Australia.[10]

Uses
The leaves and shoots are eaten in East Asia. The stems have been used as a thickener, added to diluted buttermilk to give it the appearance of undiluted buttermilk.[11] There is some evidence that T. terrestris was used in traditional medicine.[12]

Dietary supplement
Although its extract has been used as a dietary supplement since the 1980s in belief that it increases testosterone levels to aid body building or sexual enhancement in men, T. terrestris did not consistently affect testosterone levels in controlled studies, has not been proven to be safe, and may adversely interact with prescription drugs.[12][13] High-quality research on T. terrestris extract has not been conducted, and no reviews indicate that it has strength-enhancing properties, or anabolic steroid effects for use as a bodybuilding supplement or sexual enhancement.[12][13] The Australian Institute of Sport discourages athletes from using T. terrestris supplements.[12]

T. terrestris is used as a tonic and is supposed to enhance potency. [14] This effect was demonstrated in laboratory studies in rats. [15] The animals also gained weight. Further research showed an increase in androgen receptors in the rat brain.

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