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Botanical Classification

 

Kingdom

Plantae

Division

Magnoliophyta

class

magnoliopsida

Order

fabales

Family

fabeaceae

Genus

Caesalpinia

Species

bonduc

   

Family

 


Botanical – fabeaceae

Ayurvedic – shimby kul

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Other Names

  • English : Fever nut, Bonduc Nut
  • Hindi : Kantkarej, Kantikaranja
  • Kannada : Gajikekayi
  • Malayalam : Kalanci
  • Sanskrit : Latakaranjah, Kuberaksi Kantakikaranjah
  • Tamil : Kaliccikkai Telugu : Gaccakaya

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Habitat

 

Throughout India, in the plains on waste lands and coastal areas.

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Morphology

 

A large straggling,very thorny shrub, branches armed with hooks and straight hard yellow prickles; leaves bipinnate, large, stipules foliaceous, pinnae 7 pairs, leaflets 3-8 pairs with 1-2 small recurved prickles between them on the underside; flowers yellow, in dense long peduncled supra-axiUary racemes at the top; fruits inflated pods, covered with wiry prickles, seeds 1-2 per pod, oblong or globular, hard, grey with a smooth shiny surface.

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Chemical Constituents

 

The defated kernels contain a-. 3-, y-, 8-and e-caesalpins, caesalpin F and a homoisoflavone, bonducellin.

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Pharmacology

 

According to ayurveda it contains

  • Gunna (properties) –laghu (light), ruksh (dry)
  • Rasa (taste) – kashaya (astringent), tickt (bitter)
  • Virya (potency) – ushan (hot)

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Toxicology

 

No toxic effect was seen on human body with its consumption

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Plant part used

 

Seeds

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Indication

 
  1. Inflammation
  2. Pain
  3. Arthritis
  4. Indigestion
  5. Liver related ailments
  6. Worm infestation
  7. Diabetes
  8. Skin related ailments
  9. Fever
  10. Piles
  11. Diarrhea
  12. Dysentery
  13. Cough and cold
  14. Contraceptive

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Uses

 

The root bark is emmenagogue, febrifuge, expectorant, anthelmintic and stomachic. It is useful in amenorrhea, dysmenorrhoea, fevers, cough, asthma, intestinal worms, colic, flatulence and dyspepsia. The leaves are anthelmintic, emmenagogue and febrifuge, and are useful in elephantiasis, intestinal worms, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhoea, fevers and pharyngodynia. The seeds are bitter, astringent, acrid, thennogenic, anodyne, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, digestive, and stomachic, liver tonic, depurative, expectorant, contraceptive, antipyretic, aphrodisiac and tonic. They are useful in vitiated conditions of tridosha, arthralgia, inflammations, hydrocele, cough, asthma, leucoderma, leprosy, skin diseases, dyspepsia, dysentery, colic, hemorrhoids, intestinal worms, hepatopathy, splenopathy, diabetes and intermittent fevers.

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