Butterfly pea
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Scientific name
Clitoria ternatea L.
English Name
Butterfly pea
Malayalam name
ശംഖുപുഷ്പം
Common name
Aparajita
Description
- Habit : Climbers
- Habitat : Grown in the gardens as an ornamental plant
- Leaves : imparipinnate,elliptic-oblong, obtuse.
- Flowers : blue or white, petals unequal.
- Pods : 5-10 cm long, flattened, nearly straight,sharply beaked
- Seeds : yellowish-brown, smooth
How to use
- Piles : Piles are cleaned with the decoction and the paste of the whole plant is applied over it.
- Headache : Leaf juice is used as nasal drops in a headache.
- Cleaning wounds : The decoction is used for gargling in stomatitis and for cleaning wounds.
Parts used
Root,leaf,seed
Uses
Cooling, laxative, diuretic , anthelmintic and tonic
Propagation & Cultivation
Methods for rapid multiplication through callus regeneration and shoot tip culture
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