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450 (Stewart). The decoction is used by Native females in leucorrhœa and menstrual derangements ; it is also given to parturient females to promote discharge of the lochia (S. Arjun).

Sanskrit writers recommend the use of the pulse as a demulcent in calculous affections, cough, etc. Its employment is said to reduce corpulence. The wild variety is said to be particularly serviceable in eye diseases (Dutt).

Syn: — Cytisus Cajan, Willd. Roxb. 567.

Sans. : — Adhaki-tubarikâ.

Vern : — Tuvar, arhar, arhar-kî-dâl (H.) ; Arhar, oror, orol (B.) ; Kohlu, kehlu (Simla) ; Dângri, arhar, dinger, tohar (Pb.) ; Tur (C. P.); Tuvero, turdâl (Guz.) ; Tura, tuver (Bomb.); Turi, tur (Mar.) ; Tuvvar, tûr (Duk.) ; Thovaray, tuvarai (Tam.) ; Kandalu (Tel.) ;. Togari, tovaray (Kan.) ; Tuvara (Mal.).

An erect shurb, widely cultivated ; with slender sulcate grey silky branchlets. Leaves 3-foliate. Stipules minute, lanceolate. Leaflets 3, minutely stipellate, oblong-lanceolate, suture sub-coriaceous, thinly silky above, densely beneath, indistinctly gland-dotted. Flowers in sparse, distinctly peduncled, corymbose racemes, often forming a terminal panicle ; pedicels downy, 2-3 times the Calyx. Calyx ¼in. Corolla 3 times the Calyx ; standard yellow, or beautifully veined with red. Pod 2-3 by ¼-½in., finely downy, tipped with the lower half of the style, linear, straight, narrowed at both ends, 3-5-seeded, torulose, with oblique linear depressions between the non-strophiolate seeds.

Habitat : — Cultivated throughout India.

Use : — The pulse is said to be easily digested and suitable for invalids, it is said to be hot and dry ; it produces costiveness, and is used in cold diseases. The leaves are used in diseases of the mouth. The expressed juice of the leaves is given with a little salt in jaundice (B. D. B.).

The pulse and leaves are mixed and made into a paste which is warmed and then applied over the mammas to check the secretion of milk (Lee of Mangalore.) A poultice made of its seeds will check swellings (Ummegudien, Native doctor, Madras, Watt).