The plant contains triterpene saponins - Shatavarin I - IV, which are phytoestrogen compounds. The roots are bitter, sweet, emollient, antispasmodic, cooling, demulcent, diuretic, nervine, tonic, constipating or antidiarrhetic, opthalimic, galactagogue, nutritive, mucilaginous, refrigerant, anobyne, aphrodisiac, stomachic and antidysenteric . They are useful in nervous disorders, dyspepsia, tumours, scalding of urine, throat infections, tuberclosis, cough bronchitis, general debility, muscle spasms, rheumatism, stomach ulcers, hematemesis, cancer - strengthens one from and for chemotherapy, convalescence, dehydration, diarrhea, dysentery, chronic fevers, herpes, hyperacidity, Immune system boost-good for AIDS, impotence, infertility, leucorrhea and menopause.