Mucuna MONOSPERMA DC.
| Synonym : | - |
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| Bangla Name : | Nata alkushi. |
| English Name : | Negro Bean. |
| Family : | Fabaceae |
| Disease : | Tonic, cardiotonic, astringent, bowels, cough, asthma and sedative. |
| Description : | An extensive climber, young branches clothed with rusty brown deciduous tomentum. Leaves 15-23 cm long, 3-foliolate, leaflets 7-10 cm long, ovate-oblong or elliptic, shortly acuminate. Flowers purple, in 6-12 flowered corymbose axillary racemes, corolla 3.8 cm long, purple. Pods 5-7.5 ? 5.7 cm, nearly as broad as long, winged on both sutures and obliquely plaited on the faces, covered with brown deciduous, irritant britles. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts. |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | The seed are tonic, cardiotonic and astringent to the bowels, used as an expectorant in cough and asthma and is applied externally as a sedative. Marma tribe use the paste of the tender leaves along with the rhizome paste of Molineria capitulata mixed wit |
| Habit : | Climber |