Sesbania grandiflora, Agathicheera, Sesban, അഗത്തിചീര

Family: Fabaceae
Vernacular names: Agathicheera, അഗത്തിചീര (Malayalam), Sesban (English), Agastya (Sanskrit), Basna (Hindi), Agathi (Tamil)
Distribution: Cultivated and naturalised in Tropical Africa and Asia, probably native of Indonesia
Description: Small trees. Leaves 18-30 cm long; leaflets 12-25 pairs, oblong. Racemes to 8 cm long, lax, 2-4 flowered. Flowers pink or white, pendulous. Pods 30-45 cm long, slender; seeds reddish-brown.
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Cultivated
Flowering & Fruiting: June-September

Parts used: Roots, stem, leaves, flowers and fruits
Properties & Uses: Cooling, anthelmintic and febrifuge. Pounded bark is externally applied to cure scabies and the bark juice is used in diarrhoea and gastralgia. Flower juice is used in the treatment of eye diseases and intermittent fever. Leaf juice used in nasal catarrh and cephalalgia (Warrier et al., 1995).
Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk, Unani, Tibetan.
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