| Botanical Name : |
Cassia Occidentalis
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| Family Name : |
Fabaceae (leguminaceae) |
| Common Name :
Coffee Senna, Negro Coffee, Coffee Weed, Stinking Weed, Foetid Cassia
Part Used : Roots, Leaves, Seeds
Habitat : Throughout India, growing abundantly immediately after rains.
Product offered : Seeds
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| Uses : The plant is bitter, purgative, laxative, anti-inflammatory, expectorant, hepatoprotective, anti-malarial, analgesic, vermifuge and febrifuge. It mainly used to detoxify liver, use to cure internal bacterial and fungal disorders, to kill parasites and viruses, enhances immunity, and promotes perspiration. It is also helpful in cough, convulsions, reduces blood pressure, reduces spasms and as cardiotonic.
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| Celosia Cristata : |
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Botanical Name : Celosia Cristata
Family Name : Amaranthaceae
Common Name : Cockscomb, Yellow Toreador, Red Cockscomb, Foxtail Amaranth,
Crested Celosia, Fire-flame Bush, Shinaji Tea, Woodfordia.
Part Used : Flowers
Habitat : Throughout India but abundantly found in north India upto 1600 m.
Product offered : Wholeplant, Flowers, Seeds
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| Uses : The flowers are acrid, astringent, styptic, depurative, utreine sadative, constipating, antibacterial, corrective of urinary pigments, febrifuge and alexeteric. They are useful in the conditions of kapha and pitta, leprosy, burning sensation, skin diseases, diarrhoea, dysentery, fever, headache, hemorrhoids, herpes, internal hemorrhage, leukorrhea, liver disorders, menorrhagia, ulcers, wounds. Juice of leaves is used in bilious sickness. They are also valued as a stimulant in pregnancy.
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