Senna hirsuta (L.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby

• Family: Fabaceae
• Vernacular names: Woolly Cassia (English),
• Distribution: Native of Tropical America
• Description: Shrubs. Leaves long, usually with 3-5 pairs of leaflets, ovate or elliptic. Flowers yellow, in axillary and terminal few-flowered racemes. Pods linear, subterete, curved, densely hirsute; seeds many, orbicular, compressed, light brown.
• Habit: Shrub
• Habitat: Degraded forest areas also in the plains
• Flowering & Fruiting: September-December

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• Parts used: Leaves and root
• Properties & Uses: Sedative and expectorant. Leaf decoction is used for the treatment of herpes, cough and irritations of the skin. Fried leaves are eaten by pregnant woman to cure body swelling, young leaf extract is used in snakebite. Roots rubbed and dipped in a cup of water drunk against snakebite.
• Systems of Medicines: Folk,
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