Senna tora - Sickle Senna

❏ Binomial Name : Senna tora (L.)Roxb.

❏ Synonym : Cassia tora,Cassia boreensis,Emelista tora

❏ Family : Leguminosae

❏ Common Name : Sickle Senna

❏ Tamil Name : Tagarai

❏ Hindi Name : Chakunda

❏ IUCN status : Not Evaluated

Senna tora Botanical Description

Annual, glabrous subshrubs up to 1 m tall. Leaves to 15 cm long, bearing a slender cylindric gland on the rachis between the leaflets of the lower 2 pairs; leaflets 2-4 pairs, 1.5-4.5 x 1.5-2.5 cm, obovate-oblong, base somewhat oblique, apex obtuse, pubescent below; stipules 1-1.5 x 0.1- 0.2 cm, linear. Flowers c. 1.5 cm across, in few-flowered axillary racemes; pedicels 4-6 mm long; bracteoles 2, 2-3 mm long. Sepals 5, 5-6 mm long, obovate-obtuse. Petals 5, yellow, 8-12 mm long, obovate-obtuse. Stamens 10, unequal, only 7 fertile, 3 large, 4 medium, 3 staminodal. Ovary subsessile, pubescent; ovules numerous. Pods 8-14 x 0.3-0.6 cm, linear, subtetragonous, septate between seeds, indehiscent. Seeds 20-30, 4-5 mm long, oblong, compressed, chestnut-brown. Fl. &Fr.: throughout the year.

Senna tora Medicinal uses

❀ Young leaves are cooked and eaten.

❀ The leaves used in the treatment of ringworm and skin diseases

❀ A decoction of the leaves is used to treat eye complaints

❀ The roots are used as a laxative and anthelmintic

❀ The seeds are diuretic and purgative

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