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Crotalaria juncea - Sanah

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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

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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

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.

[2]

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

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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

  1. ↑ Chemistry
  2. ↑ Morphology
  3. ↑ [ Cultivation]

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