English Name : Ticktree
Family : Fabaceae
Description
A shrub, 06 to 1.2 m tall. Leaves unifoliate, petioles 1 to 2 cm long; stipules scarious, 6 to 8 mm long, apex acute, base round, margin wavy, glabrescent. Flowers violet or white, borne in fascicles of 2 to 5 flowers in lax, terminal and axillary racemes 15 to 30 cm long; pedicels 4 to 6 mm long, pubescent; bracts subulate 1.5 to 3.0 mm long; calyx 2 mm long, hairy, campanulate; corolla 3 to 4 mm long. Fruit pod linear to slightly curved, 1.2 to 2 cm long and 2 mm wide, indehiscent.
Habitat
Fields and forests on lower elevations (up to 1500 m) of India and the Himalayas.
Parts Used : Root, plant and its aerial part
Herb Effects
Analgesic and antiinflammatory (root), Astringent, diuretic, febrifuge, expectorant, laxative, nervine, tonic.
Active Ingredients
NB-methyltetra-hydroharman, indole-3-alkylamines and their NB-oxides and 6-methoxy-2-methyl-beta-carboline (aerial part); gangetinin. desmodin. gangetin and several alkaloids (pterocarpanoids of root).
Medicinal Use
Habitat
Fields and forests on lower elevations (up to 1500 m) of India and the Himalayas.
Parts Used : Root, plant and its aerial part
Herb Effects
Analgesic and antiinflammatory (root), Astringent, diuretic, febrifuge, expectorant, laxative, nervine, tonic.
Active Ingredients
NB-methyltetra-hydroharman, indole-3-alkylamines and their NB-oxides and 6-methoxy-2-methyl-beta-carboline (aerial part); gangetinin. desmodin. gangetin and several alkaloids (pterocarpanoids of root).
Medicinal Use
Diarrhea and to prepare "dasmula koatha" (root); asthma (root and plant); cough and fever (plant). Used to treat haemorrhoids, bronchitis, cardiopathy, anorexia, dyspepsia, inflammations.
Dosage
Decoction (1 in 10) of the root is used in fevers.
Contraindication
Contraindicated during pregnancy
Reference
Dosage
Decoction (1 in 10) of the root is used in fevers.
Contraindication
Contraindicated during pregnancy
Reference
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