04-AGAVE VERA-CRUZ Mill. Gard. Dict.
Local name: Kektad
Family: Agavaceae
Location: Botanical garden.
Characters: Small herbs, stems usually short. Leaves linear, marginal spines. Flowers in terminal panicles at the end of stout. Cultivated as hedge plant.
General use: Planted for making a fence. It yields a course and weak fibre. Leaves are decomposed in water to extract fibres. They aree used for making ropes. Decoction of leaves used for fish poison. Leaves contain an essential oil which renders wall papers and plasters termite proof.
Medicinal use: Juice of leaves is laxative, diuretic emmenagogue useful in scurvy. Leaves contain ten steroidal. Cone of the plant used for ascites, dropsy. Venereal sores and dysentery, roots anthelmentic, leaves are used on burn, cut and wounds, also used on skin disease and fever.
Veterinary use: Roots of leaves is laxative, diuretic, emmenagogue useful in scurvy.