Botanical Name(s): Abrus precatorius
Popular Name(s): Rosary Pea, Jequerity, Crab's Eye, Precatory Bean
Sanskrit Name(s): Gunja
Description: Abrus precatorius is a twining herb with delicate feathery leaves. Flowers are rose to purple growing at the end of a stalk. Fruits are short pods containing hard, shiny, scarlet and black seeds.
Chemical Constituents: Leaves & roots contain glycyrrhizin. Roots also contain precol, abrol, abrasine and precasine.
Seeds contain abrine, gallic acid, alanine, serine, precatorine, choline, valine, hypaphorine & methyl ester.
Indications: Skin related ailments, Hairfall, Pain, Healing of wounds, Headaches, Paralysis, Stomatitis, Impotence, Contraceptive, Pyrexia, Voice related problems, Night-blindness, Jaundice etc.
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