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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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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