450 INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 



(Stewart). The decoction is used by Native females in leucorr- 

 ha3a 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 demul- 

 cent 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 indieus, Spreng. h.f.b.i., ii. 217, 

 Roxb. 567. 



Syn: — Cytisus Cajan, Willd. Roxb. 567. 



Sans. : — Adhaki-tubarika. 



Vern : — Tuvar, arhar, arhar-ki-dal (H.) ; Arhar, oror, orol 

 (B.) ; Kohlu, kehlu (Simla) ; Dangri, arhar, dinger, tohar (Pb.) ; 

 Tur (C. P.); Tuvero, turdal (Guz.) ; Tura, tuver (Bomb.); Turi, 

 tur (Mar.) ; Tuvvar, tur (Duk.) ; Thovaray, tuvarai (Tarn.) ; 

 Kandalu (Tel.) ;. Togari, tovaray (Kan.) ; Tuvara (Mai.). 



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 £in. Corolla 3 times the Calyx ; stand- 

 ard yellow, or beautifully veined with red. Pod 2-3 by J-iin., 

 finely downy, tipped with the lower half of the style, linear, 

 straight, narrowed at both ends, 3-5-seeded, torulose, with obli- 

 que 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 costive- 

 ness, 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 Mangalcre.) A poultice made of its seeds will 

 check swellings (Ummegudien, Native doctor, Madras, Watt). 



