Vasambu also called sweet flag is a very very important herb that is considered so very highly in Ayurveda due to it’s amazing health benefits and medicinal uses. This is also one herb that is very commonly used in home remedies and especially in village sides you will never find a single person who is not aware of this amazing herb.

We regularly use vasambu for babies in the form of bracelets and we also use it to make bindis and to treat all stomach ailments. This is one herb that I have never been without and even though now my son is grown up, I always have the dried root at home.
Vasambu Common Names:
It is popularly and commonly called sweet flag in English and it’s botanical name is Acorus Calamus. Vasambu is the Tamil name and it is called vacha in Sanskrit and bach in Hindi. It also has other wide variety of names like sweet myrtle, sweet root, calamus, etc which shows it’s popularity all over the world. Here in Tamil Nadu, it is called child’s herb as it is helps treat almost all the stomach ailments of babies.