Description
- Highly effective to lower sugar level.
- Reduces fever and body pain / aches.
- Mitigate arthritis and joint pain. Effective an skin diseases like Leprosy, Leucoderma, boils, blisters, rashes.
- Kills worms and intestinal parasites and treat dysentery / diarrhea.
- Tonic increases male potency.
Description
Caesalpininia Bonduc grows throughout India up to 800 meters elevation. It is a large straggling, very thorny shrub. The branches are armed with hooks and straight, hard, yellow prickles. The leaves, 3 cm long are bipinnate, stipules foliaceous. Pinnae 7 pairs, leaflets 3-8. The flowers pale yellow in color, in supra-axillary racemes at the top. The fruits are inflated pods, covered with prickles, 6 cm long, 1-2 seeds per pod. The seeds are globular, hard, bluish-grey with a smooth shiny surface. The plant flowers in June and fruits in November. The seeds are stimulant to the uterus, improve the menstrual discharge in oligomenorrhea and reduce the pain in the lower abdominal region. The skin of the seed is extremely beneficial in the treatment of leucorrhea. The seeds also render contraceptive activity. Katkaranj is used as a bitter tonic. It is also a useful remedy for cough, as it alleviates the Kapha dosha.