Botanical name: Smithia sensitiva    Family: Fabaceae (Pea family)

Sensitive Smithia is a low-gowing annual herb, 30-90 cm, common along the roads. It appears at waning of the monsoons. Compound leaves are slightly sensitive to touch. There are 3-10 pairs of oblong leaflets, each 6-12 mm long. Yellow pea-like flowers occur in racemes of 2-6, arising from leaf axils. Flowers are 1.3 cm long. Pods are flat, 1 cm long. Flowers are eaten by the red black spotted blister beetles. Leaves and pods are cooked and eaten. Flowering: August-October.
Medicinal uses: The herb is boiled and given for gravel and difficulty in micturition. Leaves are refigerant, stimulate flow of milk in mothers. Leaves juice is used as lotion in headaches.

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