Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH070 : Cassia absus L.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 171

Synonym : Chamaecrista absus (L.) Irwin & Barneby var. absus (L.) Irwin & Barneby, Chamaecrista absus, Cassia babylonica Schrank; Cassia coccinea Wall.; Cassia exigua Roxb.; Cassia foliolis L.; Cassia thonningii DC.; Cassia viscida Zoll.; Grimaldia absus (L.) Britton & Rose; Grimaldia absus (L.) Link; Grimaldia opifera Schrank; Senna absus (L.) Roxb.; Senna exigua Roxb.; Senna quadrifolia Burm.

Plant Common Name : Chaksu, Banar, Bankultthi, Chaksi, Chamada, Kankuti, Chimar, Arangakulitthika, aranyakulattha, Aranyakulatthika, Chaksusya, Chakshushya

Plant Family : Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae

Description : A herb or undershrub, 10-60 cm tall, erect, widely branching, clothed with viscous glandular hairs. Stipules 4 mm long, linear, persistent, viscous hairy, petiole 1.9-4 cm long, rachis 5-13 mm long. Leaflets in two pairs, broadly elliptic to obovate, unequal sided, 2-2.8 (-3.5) cm long and 10-18 (-25) mm broad, very puberulous or pubescent on both the surfaces, top rounded to blunt, base rounded or cuneate, petiolules 1 mm long, gland present between the pairs, .5 mm long, ligulate-acute, viscid-hairy. Racemes terminal or leaf opposed, c. 4-12 cm long, ± sessile. Bracts ovate, c. 2 mm long, viscous hairy. Bracteole 1, about the middle of each pedicel, c. 1 mm long, viscid hairy. Pedicel c. 3-4 mm long, rough hairy. Calyx 5, 4 mm long, viscous hairy, imbricate. Petals broadly obovate, 5-7 mm long, claw 1-3 mm long, glabrous. Stamens 5, fertile, staminodes absent. Disc straight, with 1-2 mm long bristles. Ovary densely strigose, sessile, c. 7-ovulate, style gla¬brous, 2 mm long, stigma shell-shaped, incurved. Pods flat, coarsely hairy, thin valved, dehiscent, strap shaped, 4 cm long, 8 mm wide, short beaked; stipe 5 mm long. Seeds 4-8, black, glossy, subovate.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Antibacterial, It stimulates contraction of plain muscles like uterus, intestine, bladder and muscles in the blood vessels. Chaksine has ganglion blocking property. Used externally as a paste or collyrium in eye diseases like netra abishyanda (conjunctivitis), potaki (trachoma), netrasrava (Chronic dacryocystitis). Externally used as paste for wound healing, skin diseases like Dadru (ringworm) Used internally in the form of kashaya (decoction) to treat diseases like Grahani ( irritable bowel syndrome), raktatisara ( Diarrhea with blood) Used internally in powder form to treat ashmari (renal stones), mootrakrichha (difficulty in micturition). Used internally in the form of kashaya to stop internal bleeding. Used internally in the form of kashaya to treat sthavara and jangama visha (poison of plant and animal origin). Chaksu seeds or its soaked seed powder, in a dose of 1 – 2 grams is administered for the treatment of hypertension. asthma;

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Leaves- Quercetin; Rutin; Root- Chaksine; Isochaksine; Seed- Beta-sitosterol; Hydnocarpin; Apigenin; Raffinose; Luteolin;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5):

Beta-sitosterol;

Quercetin;

Rutin;

Apigenin;

Luteolin;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

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Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Rosidae
Order : Fabales
Family : Caesalpiniaceae / Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Cassia - sensitive pea
Species : Cassia absus L. - tropical sensitive pea

Cassia absus L. - tropical sensitive pea
Cassia absus L. - tropical sensitive pea
Cassia absus L. - tropical sensitive pea
Cassia absus L. - tropical sensitive pea
Cassia absus L. - tropical sensitive pea