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Description: A perennial viscid pubescent semi-erect diffuse
undershrub, 60-120 cm long with slender branches, more or less clothed
with whitish hairs; leaves 3-foliate, terminal leaflet rhomboid-ovate,
the lateral ones obliquely ovate-oblong or subrhomboid, all more or less
hairy above and densely grey-silky beneath; flowers purplish or pink,
small, numerous, in distant fasdiles along the rachis of terminal and
axillary racemes or panicles; fruits pods, linear-oblong, flattened,
covered with sticky hairs, seeds 4-6, compressed, brownish black. |
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Uses: The roots are astringent, sweet, bitter, thermogenic,
emollient, digestive constipating anthelmintic, nervine, tonic,
anti-inflammatory, diuretic, cardiotomc, aphrodisiac. febrifuge,
rejuvenating and tonic. They are useful in vitiated conditions of pitta
and vata, cough, bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis, helminthiasis,
dyspepsia, diarrhoea, neurasthenia, inflammations, strangury,
cardiopathy, fever, emaciation, haemorrhoids, gout, diabetes,hyperthemia,
and general debility. |
