Name: Assafetida
Scientific Name: Ferula assa-foetida
German Name: Stinkenderassand
French Name: Résine de l'assa-foetida
Industrial Uses
Pharmaceutical industry
Description
Assafoetida gum oleoresin is extracted from plant stem base. It has bitter taste and intolerable odor of garlic. It has tear and mass types.Tear type is the best.
Therapeutic properties
- Anticonvulsant and anti-epilepsy
- Emmenagogue
- Anti-parasite
- Treatment of respiratory diseases with neurological origin
- Larynx spasm and digestive system
- Treatment of Asthma
- Treatment of constipation in elderly