(Stewart). The decoction is used by Native females in leucorrhœa and menstrual derangements ; it is also given to parturient females to promote discharge of the lochia (S. Arjun).
Sanskrit writers recommend the use of the pulse as a demulcent in calculous affections, cough, etc. Its employment is said to reduce corpulence. The wild variety is said to be particularly serviceable in eye diseases (Dutt).
394. Cajanus indicus, Spreng. h.f.b.i., ii. 217, Roxb. 567.
Syn: — Cytisus Cajan, Willd. Roxb. 567.
Sans. : — Adhaki-tubarikâ.
Vern : — Tuvar, arhar, arhar-kî-dâl (H.) ; Arhar, oror, orol (B.) ; Kohlu, kehlu (Simla) ; Dângri, arhar, dinger, tohar (Pb.) ; Tur (C. P.); Tuvero, turdâl (Guz.) ; Tura, tuver (Bomb.); Turi, tur (Mar.) ; Tuvvar, tûr (Duk.) ; Thovaray, tuvarai (Tam.) ; Kandalu (Tel.) ;. Togari, tovaray (Kan.) ; Tuvara (Mal.).
An erect shurb, widely cultivated ; with slender sulcate grey silky branchlets. Leaves 3-foliate. Stipules minute, lanceolate. Leaflets 3, minutely stipellate, oblong-lanceolate, suture sub-coriaceous, thinly silky above, densely beneath, indistinctly gland-dotted. Flowers in sparse, distinctly peduncled, corymbose racemes, often forming a terminal panicle ; pedicels downy, 2-3 times the Calyx. Calyx ¼in. Corolla 3 times the Calyx ; standard yellow, or beautifully veined with red. Pod 2-3 by ¼-½in., finely downy, tipped with the lower half of the style, linear, straight, narrowed at both ends, 3-5-seeded, torulose, with oblique linear depressions between the non-strophiolate seeds.
Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India.
Use : — The pulse is said to be easily digested and suitable for invalids, it is said to be hot and dry ; it produces costiveness, and is used in cold diseases. The leaves are used in diseases of the mouth. The expressed juice of the leaves is given with a little salt in jaundice (B. D. B.).
The pulse and leaves are mixed and made into a paste which is warmed and then applied over the mammas to check the secretion of milk (Lee of Mangalore.) A poultice made of its seeds will check swellings (Ummegudien, Native doctor, Madras, Watt).
