Name -
शणपुष्पी
Botanical name -
Crotalaria verrucosa
Description -
Erect much branched herbs. Leaves ovate-rhomboid. Flowers bluish and white, in terminal or lateral racemes. Pod cylindric, pubescent.
Chemical Constituents-
Leaves contain tropane alkaloid, necic acid lactone. Seeds contain alkaloid crotalaburine, crotaverine, O-acetyl-crotoverrine, flavonoid isovitexin, vitexin-4'-xyloside, vitexin-O-glycoside and apigenin-O-glycoside, Beta-sitosterol
Use -
Leaves used in scabies and impetigo
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