Name - माषपर्णी

Botanical name - Teramnus labialis

Description - Climbing hairy herbs. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets membranous and subcoriaceous, elliptic, ovate-oblong. Flowers red, pink or purple, in lax, axillary racemes. Pod linear, straight or recurved.

Chemical Constituents- Plant contains glucoside and a complex hydrocarbon

 

Use - Used in rheumatism, tuberculosis, nervous affections, haemoptysis and catarrh. Fruits astringent, stomachic and febrifuge. 

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