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Cassia Tora Seeds

Our offering Cassia Tora Linn is extremely useful in terms of its medicinal properties. It has got a high ranking not only in Ayurveda but is used and taken widely in various other cultures and countries. The seeds, ground with sour buttermilk, are used to ease the irritation of itchy eruptions. Seeds are sometimes employed as a substitute for coffee and also in adulterating it. In India the seeds are used in dyeing and along with indigo. Common name

Pawad, foetid cassia, andadasi-nga-dadakkel, balatong-aso

Scientific Name

Cassia tora linn

Herb description

A stout, erect, smooth and rank-smelling herb
Half-woody annual which is one meter or less in height
The leaves are 8 to 12 centimeters long and pinnately compound with 6 leaflets
The leaves are furnished with glands on the main rachis between the leaflets
The leaflets are obovate to oblong-obovate and 2 to 5 centimeters long
The flowers are crowded, in pairs, in the axils of the upper leaves
The pods are slender, up to 15 centimeters long, and 3 to 4 millimeters thick
The seeds are flattened in the same direction as the pod

Chemical composition

The leaves have the following percentage composition: water
72.2 percent; petroleum ether extract
9.75 per cent; ether extract
0.86 per cent; absolute alcohol extract
1.63 per cent; watery extract, 20 per cent
These solutions are precipitated by hydrochloric acid
The precipitate has a close analogy to chrysophanic acid
Emodin C15H10O5) is trioxymethyllanthraquinone and chrysophanic acid dioxymethyllanthraquinone
Distinguished by its insolubility in benzene
The seeds contain phytosterine and glucosenine

Usage

As a remedy for ringworm and scabies
In the form of paste, with limejuice, for ringworm
Prescribed in the form of decoction for children while teething
As a poultice or hasten suppuration
As a mild purgative or as a cure for coughs
For dysentery and ophthalmia

Chemical Composition The leaves have the following percentage composition: water, 72.2 percent; petroleum ether extract, 9.75 per cent; ether extract, 0.86 per cent; absolute alcohol extract, 1.63 per cent; watery extract, 20 per cent. The ethereal extract and the alcoholic extract contain a glucoside substance of a yellow color insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol and in water solutions of potash, in which cases it assumes a blood-red color. These solutions are precipitated by hydrochloric acid. The precipitate has a close analogy to chrysophanic acid, . Emodin(C15H10O5)is trioxymethyllanthraquinone and chrysophanic acid dioxymethyllanthraquinone.The medicinal properties of the plant are due to the presence of emodin.Chrysophanic acid is most of its properties, but may be distinguished by its insolubility in benzene, and greater solubility in ether alcohol.The seeds contain phytosterine and glucosenine.

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Mucuna Pruriens Seeds

We are offering mucuna pruriens seeds or kaunch beej offered by us is commonly known as cowhage, cow itch is one of the popular medicinal of india. Mucuna pruriens seeds constitutes one of the main constituents in many indigenous drug formulations. All parts of cowhage posses valuable medicinal properties. We offer the mucuna pruriens seeds at affordable rates. rich source of

tocopherol or vitamin e
comman name : kaunchbeej

applications

beneficial in parkinsons disease
used as a foliage crop to fertilize and protect fallow fields
feed the beans and seeds to multi-stomached animals such as cows for a protein and fiber rich food source

botanical name