Senna tora, Thakara, Ponthakara, Wild senna, തകര, പൊന്‍തകര

Family: Fabaceae
Vernacular names: Thakara, Ponthakara, തകര, പൊന്‍തകര (Malayalam), Wild senna (English), Prapunnata (Sanskrit), Chakavat (Hindi), Tagarai (Tamil)
Distribution: Native of South America
Description: Under shrubs. Leaves long, bearing a slender cylindric gland on the rachis between the leaflets of the lower 2 pairs. Flowers yellow, in few-flowered axillary racemes. Pods linear, indehiscent; seeds oblong, compressed, chestnut-brown.
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Moist deciduous forests, also in the plains
Flowering & Fruiting: August-December

Parts used: Seeds, root and leaves
Properties & Uses: Leaves are purgative, laxative and anthelmintic. The leaves are externally useful for curing ring worm and skin diseases. The pounded leaves are applied on cuts and wounds to promote healing, it is also used in gout and joint pains.
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk, Unani,
Traditional Uses:The grinded leaf mixed with water and applied on deep wounds and cuts for quick healing.
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