MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH073 : Cassia tora L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 177 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | UNCOMMON | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Caesalpiniaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Tarota, K-Torthan, sickle senna, sickle pod, tora, coffee pod, tovara, chakvad, thakara, Chakavad, Pavand, Takla, Chinese senna, foetid cassia, Java bean, low senna, peanut weed, sickle senna, sicklepod, stinking cassia , | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Senna tora (L.)Roxb. Cassia boreensis Miq. Cassia borneensis Miq. Cassia gallinaria Collad. Cassia numilis Collad. Cassia tora var. borneensis (Miq.)Miq. Emelista tora Britton & Rose. Cassia tora var. b Wight & Arn. Cassia tora var. humilis(Collad.) Collad. Cassia tora var. obtusifolia (L.)Haines. |
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| Description : | An erect, foetid, usually annual, often profusely branched herb or under-shrub, 30-120 cm tall. Stipules linear, hairy, acute, falcate, 8-15 mm long, c. 1 mm broad, subpersistent. Leaf c. 5-10 cm long, leaflets 3 pairs, membranous, mostly obovate, nearly equal sided, c. 0.5-5 cm long and 0.5-2.5 cm wide, both surfaces hairy, glabrescent or glabrous, base oblique, cuneate to rounded, apex delicately acute, petiolules 1.0-2 mm long, glands between 2 lower pairs of petiolules. Race¬mes short, penducle hairy, c. 3-4 mm long, with a single pair of flower, or axillary solitary. Bracts linear-acute, 2-4 mm long, pedicel 4-10 mm long, in fruit up to 1.5 cm, hairy. Sepals ovate, 5-6 mm long. Petals unequal, ovate, top rounded, 8-10 mm long. Stamens 7, developed, 3 largest, 4 lateral, 3 upper absent or staminodial. Ovary appressed, densely hairy, ribbed, style glabrous, stigma truncate. Pod glabrescent, subtetragonous, often curved, indehiscent, 10-20 cm long, 4-6 mm broad. Seeds 20-30, rhomboidal, glossy, dark, 5 mm across. Fl. Per.: November-December. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Esabgol, Head achae, anti-cancer, snake bite poisoning, reduces cholesterol, psoriasis, Anti-bacterial, | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Fistucacidin emodin Rubro fusarin Torosachrysone Isotoralactone Questin Obtusin Obtusifolin Alaternins Cassiaside Chrysophenol is its marker compound. Seeds: cinnamaldehyde gum tannins mannitol coumarins aldehydes eugenol and pinene sugars resins Root: Beta-sitosterol-beta-D-glucoside palmitic acid stearic acid uridine quercitin iso-quercitin Sumatrol |
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| Reference : | ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : ~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID : |
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