PANWAR
English : Foetid cassia/ Wild cassia/Wild senna/Ring worm plant
Urdu : Panwar/Panevar/Tarota/Panvar
Telugu : Tantemu/Tantiyamu/Tagirisha
Description :
It is common herbaceous annual 30-90 cm high,occuring as a weed throughout india,having pinnate leaves with the glands between the leaflets small and yellow flowers in axillary pairs and very long (i.e 12.5-20 cm by 4.5 mm),much curved pods containing 25-30 seeds rhombohedral
with the long axis in the direction of the pods.
Action and Uses:
Leaves are anti-periodic,aperient,alerative,blood-purifier and anthelmatic.They are given in the form of decoction.They are used externally as a poultice in skin diseases e.g ringworm,scabies,eczema,vitiligo,inflammations and boils,gout,sciatica and pains in the joints.Root rubbed into paste with lime juice is specific for ringworm and applied also to bubu in plague.Seeds are tonic and stomachic but are particularly used extermally in skin disease and so have the same uses in skin diseases as the leaves.A paste made with curd is applied over the affected part.Seeds are also useful in paralysis,rheumatic pains,cough and bronchial asthma.