Desmodium gangeticum
Names: Desmodium gangeticum, Hedysarum gangeticum,
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English:
Hindi: Salparni.
Family: Fabaceae, papillonidae
Preparation: Root.
Botanical: A nearly erect undershrub up to 1.2 m in height. Stem pubescent. Leaves simple, ovate, 3.7 by 2.5 cm or oblong - ovate 10 by 5 cm. entire, obtuse or acute, upper surface nearly glabrous, lower tomentose or thinly hairy. Racemes numerous upto 30 cm long. Flowers pink, hardly 0.8 cm long. Fruit a pod, sessile, pubescent, curved, 1 2 to 1.9 cm with upper margin slightly indented lower deeply indented.
Source: Bhandari, Ghose
Planets:.
General
Time: < 7 am.
Sweat: >, back of hands and feet, forehead.
Body
Head: meningitis cerebrospinal, + pain head, spine, whole body, + sleepiness, comatose, + sensation head is bound up with a tape or rope.
Fever, typhoid, intermittent or remittent, daily, quotidian, + drowsy, chilliness, dropsy.
Eyes: burning.
Face: burning, flushes.
Lungs: asthma, cough, pleurodynia.
Stomach: neuralgia, vomiting. Worms
Backache; wry neck; spinal pain. < sitting straight.
Knee: pain in joint.
Hands and feet: heat, burning, rheumatism, neuralgia
Skin: ulcers, << snakebite and scorpion sting.
DD: azadirachta, Kalmegha, Rohitaka, gels, sulph.