Note: This is a project under development. The articles on this wiki are just being initiated and broadly incomplete. You can Help creating new pages.

Changes

Jump to: navigation, search

Senna tora - Chakramarda

1,030 bytes added, 2 years ago
no edit summary
==Uses==
{{Uses|Indigestion}}, {{Uses|Stomachache}}, {{Uses|Skin diseases}}, {{Uses|Constipation}}, {{Uses|Oedema}}, {{Uses|Blotches}}, {{Uses|Glaucoma}}, {{Uses|Nyctalopia}}, {{Uses|Leucoderma}}.
 
===Food===
Senna tora can be used in Food. Young leaves are cooked as vegetable. Seeds are used in curry and are roasted for use as a substitute for coffee.<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>
==Parts Used==
Vatadosha
===Prabhava===
 
===Nutritional components===
Senna tora Contains the Following nutritional components like - Vitamin-E and C; Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>
==Habit==
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
* [[Vishatinduka Taila]] as ''root juice extract''
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}, {{Propagation|Cuttings}}.
==How to plant/cultivate==
Peacock flower is very easy to grow Seed - scarify and then pre-soak the seed for 2 - 3 hours in alkaline to acidic, well-drained soilswarm water before sowing<ref name="How to plant/cultivate"/>. Senna tora is available through August to December<ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat"/>.
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Senna tora (1250292137).jpg|Flower
File:C.tora (2).jpg|Flower
File:Chakramardakah (Sanskrit- चक्रमर्दकः) (3891733641).jpg|Leaves
File:Cassia tora-3-kottachedu-yercaud-salem-India.JPG|Pods
File:വട്ടതകര.JPG|Leaves
</gallery>
<ref name="Leaf">[https://www.kew.org/science/tropamerica/neotropikey/families/Leguminosae_(Caesalpinioideae).htm Plant descrption]</ref>
<ref name="How to plant/cultivate">[https://ajaytaobotanicalblogpfaf.wordpress.comorg/taguser/caesalpiniaceae-pea-familygulmohar-familyPlant.aspx?LatinName=Senna+tora Cultivation details]</ Growing ref><ref name="Forest foods of Western Ghat">"Forest food for Northern region of Caesalpinioideae]Western Ghats" by Dr. Mandar N. Datar and Dr. Anuradha S. Upadhye, Page No.136, Published by Maharashtra Association for the Cultivation of Science (MACS) Agharkar Research Institute, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune</ref>
</references>
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Ayurvedic herbs that don't have seed photos]]
[[Category:Fabaceae]]

Navigation menu