Family: Fabaceae
Synonym(s) : Rhynchosia precatoria
English name: Jequirity bean, rosary pea, prayer bean, precatory bean, Indian liquorice
Description
A perennial, twinning shrub. Leaves 9-12 cm long, leaves have rachis
bristle-tipped ; leaflet 10-20 pairs, 1-2 x 0.5-0.8 cm, oblong. Flowers
pink, born in fascicles on swollen nodes of axillary racemes. Calyx
campanulate, corolla 8-9 mm long, stamens 9, pods oblong, beaked,
pubescent and turgid. Seeds ovate, elliptic, shinning smooth, scarlet
red colour with black hilum and 3-8 mm long.
Herb Effects
Anti-spasmodic,anthelmintic, anti-diarrhoeal, anti-convulsant,anti-bacterial,alexiteric,astringent,abortifacient, anti-septic, diuretic, emetic, diuretic, febrifuge,insecticide,inhibits intestinal motility,purgative, toxic, trichogenous.
Active Ingredients: Abrin
Medicinal Uses:
A tea is made from the leaves and used to treat fevers, coughs and colds. In Ceylon it is taken for sore throat and rheumatism. It is used as a
remedy for pain in the chest. Roots are applied to the snake-bitten
part. A cold infusion of the root is used in
leucorrhoea and for gonorrhoea. Seeds are useful in affection of nervous system and externally in skin
diseases, ulcers, affections of the hairs. Seeds reduced to paste are
applied locally in sciatica stiffness of shoulder joints, paralysis and
of nervous disease. In white leprosy seed paste and plumbago root is
applied as a stimulant dressing.
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