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Crotalaria juncea is an erect, laxly branched annual plant. It grows upto 1 - 3 metres tall. The plant has been cultivated since prehistoric times, especially in India, for its fibre. It is widely grown in many areas of the tropics and subtropics, including Africa, Asia and Australasia, as a green manure crop and for its fibre

Uses

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Parts Used

[[:Category:Herbs with used in medicine|]].

Chemical Composition

Seeds—hepatotoxic. Seed oil gave fatty acids—linoleic, linolenic and oleic. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids—junceine, tricodesmine, riddelline, seneciphylline and senecionine were also obtained.^[1]

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Gujarathi
Punjabi
Kashmiri
Sanskrit
English

Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Dravya

Rasa

Guna

Veerya

Vipaka

Karma

Prabhava

Habit

Herb

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature
Simple	Alternate	Leaves 3-8 x 0.5-1.5 cm, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate.

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Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
Bisexual	Terminal raceme	Yellow		many-flowered, 15-30 cm long. Flowers yellow, 1.5-2 cm long; pedicels c. 5 mm long.

Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information
Pod	2.5-3x 1-1.3 cm		oblong-cylindrical, fulvous silky hairy	Seeds 8-15, c. 4 mm long, obliquely-cordiform.

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

[[:Category:Index of Plants which can be propagated by |]]

How to plant/cultivate

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Commonly seen growing in areas

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Photo Gallery

Leaves
Pods
Seeds
Flower
Habit

References

↑ Chemistry
↑ Morphology
↑ [ Cultivation]

External Links

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[chemical_composition-1] Chemistry

[Leaf-2] Morphology

[How_to_plant.2Fcultivate-3] [ Cultivation]

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