[3] Shatavari has small pine-needle-like phylloclades (photosynthetic branches) that are uniform and shiny green.

[5][6][7] Despite its long history of use in Ayurveda, no high-quality clinical evidence exists to support using shatavari as a therapy for any disease.

[8] Its safety has not been well-studied, with two small trials finding no adverse effects in mothers or their babies.

[8] The roots of Asparagus racemosus are boiled and give a liquid used as an external wash to treat colds and other sicknesses, by the aborigines of the Moyle River area in the Northern Territory.

)[9] Asparagamine A, a polycyclic alkaloid was isolated from the dried roots[10][11] and subsequently synthesized to allow for the construction of analogs.