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In Ayurveda and Yunani systems of medicine it is a reputed medicine. According to Ayurveda, tuber is pungent, bitter, acrid, heating, anthemirtic, laxative, alexiteric, abortifacient, and useful in ulcers, leprosy, piles, iflommations, abdominal pains, itching and thirst. Gloriosa Superba Seed contains natural chemicals, colchicin & colchicoside that are being considered for their use in anti-cancer drugs. A paste of the root formed with water is used as an anodyne application in bites of poisonous insects, snake-bites, scorpion-sting, parasitic skin diseases and leprosy. Root is useful when given in gonorrhoea, leprosy, piles, colic and to expel intestinal worms. Rubbed with Chitraka bark in cow's urine it is applied to painful piles