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Description: A viscid erect annual or biennial upto 45cm in
height with spreading branches clothed with glandular hairs; leaves
compound, rachis viscous hairy, leaflets two pairs, very oblique,
elliptic-oblong or euiptic-obovate, the terminal pair the largest;
flowers reddish yellow in terminal or leaf-opposed, erect, few flowered
racemes, stamens five, all equal and perfect; fruits ligulate,
dehiscent, compressed pods, clothed with bristly hairs, seeds 4-6,
trapezoid-ovoid, black, shining. |
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Uses: The leaves are bitter, astringent, acrid, thermogenic,
haematinic, constipating and expectorant. They are useful in vitiated
conditions of kapha, tumours, anaemia, diarrhoea, nasitis, cough, asthma
and hiccough. The seeds are bitter, astringent, acrid, cooling,
ophthalmic, haemostatic, diuretic, revulsive, constipating, alexeteric
and vulnerary. They are useful in vitiated conditions of kappa and pitta,
ophthalmopathy such as conjunctivitis, dysopia, ophthalmia, cataract,
etc., epistads, haematemesis, haemorrhages, stranguiy, obesity,
diarrhoea, dysentery, nephrolithiasis, poisonous bites, wounds, ulcers
and bruises. |
