Uraria LAGOPODIOIDES (L.) DC.
| Synonym : | Doodia lagopodioides Roxb. Hedysarum lagopoides Burm.f. Lespedeza lagopoides Pers. Uraria aequilobata Hosok. |
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| Bangla Name : | Lata-chakuley, Chakuley, Chakulia, Gurkha-chakulia, Golak-chakulia. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Fabaceae |
| Disease : | abortifacient, laxative, aphrodisiac, fever, asthma, dysentery, rheumatism, bleeding piles, catarrh and diarrhoea. |
| Description : | A prostrate and ascending woody small shrub, 30-90 cm long. Leaves 2.5-5 cm long, leaflets solitary or 3-foliolate, oblong, rhomboid, rounded, hairy beneath. Racemes dense, oblong, 2.5-6.3 cm long, 2 cm through. Flowers white. Pods 3.8 cm long and 2 cm wide. |
| Distribution : | Sal forests of Gazipur and Tangail. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Principal constituents of this plant are flavonoids and six anti-snake venom flavonoid compounds have been isolated from the plant (Ghani, 2003). |
| Uses : | The plant is abortifacient, laxative, aphrodisiac, used in remittent fever, asthma, dysentery and for the treatment of inflammation in the chest. Decoction of the leaf is used for diarrhoea. An Ayurvedic drug consists of this plant is used in rheumatism, |
| Habit : | Shrub |