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Indian Medicinal plants. 
(Stewart). The decoction is used by Native females in leucorr- 
hcea 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. Gajanus indicus, Spreng. h.f.b.i., II. 217, 
Roxb. 567. 
Syn : — Cytisus Cajan, Willd. Roxb. 567. 
Sans. : — Adhaki-tubarika. 
Vem : — Tuvar, arhar, arbar-ki-dal (H.) ; Arhar, oror, orol 
(B.) ; Kohlu, kehlu (Simla) ; Dangri, arhar, dinger, tohar (Pb.) ; 
'fur (C. P.); Tuvero, turdal (Guz.); Tura, tuver (Bomb.); Turi, 
tur (Mar.) ; Tuvvar, tflr (Duk.) ; Thovaray, tuvarai (Tam.) ; 
Kandalu (Tel ) ; Togari, tovaray (Kan.) ; Tuvara (Mai.). 
An erect shurb, widely cultivated ; with slendei 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 i-Jin., 
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 mammae to check the secretion 
of milk fLee of Mangalore.) A poultice made of its seeds will 
check swellings (Ummegudien, Native doctor, Madras, Watt). 
