Chaksu

Description :

This is a suffruiticose, eract herb with a height of about 2 meters, clothedwith white pubescnce. The eaves are about 5 cms. long, the leaflets areovate-oblong or ovate elliptic. The flowers are pale yellow or tingedred, in terminals and leaf opposed in long racemes. The pods are linearlanceolate, dark brown and glabrascent. The seeds are 3 to 5 shiningblack,smooth, glabrous, compressed and oblong. The flowering season isAugust to December.

                                      

Details :

Arabic Name : Tashmeezaj, Shishm

Bengali Name : Ban Kulthi 

English Name : Absus Seeds

French Name : Absus Semences

German Name : Chichimkassie, Chichonpflanze

Gujarati Name : Chimad, Chinola 

Hindi Name : Chaksu, Bankulthi

Kannada Name : Kreed, Nindratach 

Latin name : Cassia absus Linn.

Marathi Name : Chimn, Chinol, Kankuti 

Persian Name : Chashkhaam

Punjabi Name : Chaksoo 

Sanskrit Name : Chakshushya, Drikaprasada, Arnaykulthika

Urdu Name : Chaksu 

Part Used :Seed

Medicinal Uses :

• The leaves and the seeds are used for treatment of anemia, asthma and hiccups.
• The seed extract is used to purify blood and to treat mucous disorders. A decoction of the seeds is used to treat certain eye diseases.
• The baked, powdered seed kernels are used in the treatment of ophtlialmia.
• The bitter, astringent leaves are used as a purgative and as a remedy for coughs, asthma and bronchitis. 
• Application of the powdered leaves is reported to heal venereal ulcers and haemorrhoids. 
• They are used as a cathartic in cases of habitual , and for the treatment of ringworm, venereal ulcers and other skin diseases, for relieving pains, headache, , leucoderma, , haemorrhoids and as an anthel-mintic.
• A plaster made from seeds is recommended as an application to wounds and sores especially of the penis.

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