Rasa (taste): Sweet, Bitter
Virya (action): Cold
Vipaka (post-digestive effect): Sweet
Guna (quality): Moist, Unctuous, Heavy
Dosha effect: VP-, K+
Dhatu (tissue): All tissues- especially Plasma, Reproductive
Srota (channel): Reproductive, Digestive, Breast
Reproductive: Primarily used as a tonic and rejuvenative for the reproductive system. For premature ejaculation, impotence, low sperm count in men. Used in chronic leucorrhoea.

Gynaecology: Useful during pregnancy as a nutritive tonic for mother and fetus. Post-partum it replenishes lost fluids, prana, ojas and improves the quantity and flow of breast milk.

Healing power and curative properties:

IMPOTENCY
The dried roots of asparagus are used in ayurveda as an aphrodisiac. They are available in the market as Safed Musli. Fifteen grams of roots boiled in one cup of milk should be taken twice daily. The regular use of this remedy is valuable in impotency and premature ejaculation.

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

• As a principal ingredient in Ayurveda, Unani and Allopathic applications
• As a vitalizer and health-giving tonic
• As a curative for pre-natal and post-natal problems
• As a natural aphrodisiac alternative to Viagra
• As a restorative for immunity-improvement
• As a remedy for diabetes and arthritis

In the Ayurvedic literature, Safed Musli is celebrated 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.

Contraindications:
With excess mucus, congestion, kapha or ama.