used in infantile diarrhoea, dysentery, catarrh and bladder troubles, acute cystitis and strangury.
Non-saponifiable fraction of the seed oil gave sterols, a lignans, sesamin and a nitrolactone, sesamolin. Sesamin and sesamolin are not found in any other vegetable oil. Sesamin is present in a concentration of 0.5 to 1.0%. The oil from the white seeds from West Bengal and Assam is reported to contain about 2.5% sesamin. Sesamol, a phenolic antioxidant, is present in traces.
600 Sesbania bispinosa W. f. Wight.
The leaves gave a flavonoid, pedalin. Pinoresinol has also been reported from the plant.
The seed contains thiamine, niacin, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, folic acid, biotin, pyridoxine, inositol, choline, p-aminobenzoic acid, ascorbic acid, vitamin A, alpha-and beta-tocopherol. Sugars present are glucose, surcose, galactose, planteose, raffinose. Fatty acid in the seed are myristic, palmitic, stearic, arachidic, hexadecenoic, oleic, linoleic and hgnoceric.
Basic aroma compounds of the roasted seeds consisted of mainly dimethyl thiazole and substituted pyrozines.
Dosage Seed—5—lO g powder. (API, Vol. IV.)
Sesbania bispinosa W. f. Wight.
Synonym S. aculeata (Willd.) Poir. Family Papilionaceae; Fabaceae.
Habitat Western Himalayas and plains, southwards to Peninsular
India.
English Prickly Sesban, Dhaincha. Ayurvedic Jayanti (var.), Itkata
(var.).
Siddha/Tamil Mudchembai.
Action Seeds—used externally in ringworm and skin diseases. Plant—used for treating wounds.
The leaf, stem and fruit gave positive test for alkaloids. A mixture of saponins, reported to be present in the seeds, yields on hydrolysis oleanohic acid and neutral sap ogenin. Colloidal
substances similar to those of marine algae, locust bean gum, guar gum and gum tragacanth are reported in the seeds.
Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir.
Synonym Agatigrandflora Desv. Family Papilionaceae; Fabaceae.
Habitat Native to tropical Asia; grown in Assam, Bengal, Punjab, Vadodara, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
English Agati Sesban, Swamp Pea. Ayurvedic Agastya, Agasti,
Munidrum, Munitaru, Muni,
