आढकी
आत्मगुप्ता
आपीनः
आभाषट्पदमॊदिनी
आम्रः
आम्रातः
आमलकि
आरग्वधः
आर्द्रकम्
आरॆवतः
आवॆगी
आस्फॊता
इक्षुगन्धा
इक्षुगन्धिका
इक्षुबालिका
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आढकी
Botanical name -
Cajanus cajan
Description -
Annual or perennial shrub, 0.6-3.6 m high with grooved silky branches; leaves trifoliate, leaflets oblong, acute, entire, densely silky beneath and in-distinctly gland-dotted, stipules small, filiform; flowers borne in axillary corymbose racemes, reddish yellow; pods linear, straight, narrowed at both ends, densely glandular, pilose with oblique depressions between seeds. Leaflets with indistinct resinous dots beneath. Flowers yellow. Pod glandular-pubescent
Chemical Constituents-
Seeds contain two globulins cajanin and concajanin.
Use -
Leaf and Seed : made into paste, warmed and applied to check excessive secretion of milk,
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