Safed Musli is a herb with sub-erect lanceolate leaves and tuberous root system and can grow upto a maximum height of 1.5 ft. Tubers can grow upto a depth of 10". Safed Musli is a tiny annual herb that grows well in tropical and sub-tropical climates with altitudes upto 1500 meters. Safed Musli has its origin in the India Subcontinent.

 

Safed Musli is an annual herb with Tubers, Crown, Leaf and Flowers as different parts. Naturally occurs in forests of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharastra Stateswhich are listed in the endangered species of India. There are around 256 varieties of Chlorophytum in the world which are yet known. In India, we have around 17 of them, of which, borivilianum has got a good market demand.

Ayurvedic literature celebrates Safed Musli as a Divya Aushad with unparalleled medicinal properties. It is a chief ingredient in the preparation of over a hundred Ayurvedic formulations. Besides its extensive use in Ayurveda and other conventional medicinal systems in Asia, Safed Musli is also gaining increasing acceptance as a vitalizer and health-giving tonic, a curative for pre-natal and post-natal problems, a restorative for immunity-improvement and as a remedy for diabetes and arthritis.

Safed Musli herb as a natural and safe aphrodisiac agent has also opened up new channels of application and new demand for it.

Among the numerous uses and usage of Safed Musli, the most important of them include the following :

 

Safed Musli herb, like most other medicinal plants, is a widely wild-harvested species that finds itself on the verge of extinction. Safed Musli herb as an endangered species, mainstream cultivation is the only means by which it can be preserved and its medicinal benefits passed on for the posterity.