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Crotalaria juncea - Sanah
Crotalaria juncea is an erect, laxly branched annual plant growing 1 - 3 metres tall with a strong and deep tap-root system. The plant has been cultivated since prehistoric times, especially in India, for its fibre. It is one of the earliest of the distinctly named fibres of India, being mentioned in early Sanskrit under the name of 'sana'. 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
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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
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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
Identification
Leaf
| Kind | Shape | Feature |
|---|---|---|
| Simple | Alternate | Leaves 3-8 x 0.5-1.5 cm, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, base usually acute, apex obtuse to subacute, apiculate, clothed on both sides with appressed hairs; petiole to 3 mm long; stipules minute. |
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; bracts 3-4 mm long, lanceolate; bracteoles linear. Calyx c. 1.8 cm long, fulvous hairy, teeth linear-lanceolate. Petals 1.5-2 cm long; standard c. 2 cm long and broad, ovate, veined red, silky without; wings shorter than keel and standard. |
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
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How to plant/cultivate
Commonly seen growing in areas
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References
- ↑ "chemistry"
- ↑ "morphology"
- ↑ [ "Cultivation"]
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