Sticky Desmodium is a perennial under shrub which grows all over India up to 1000 m altitude. It attains the height about 60-120 cm. The branches are
slender and covered with minute white hair. The leaves are 7.5-15 cm long
and 2.5-5 cm broad, trifoliate, ovate-oblong, hairy and densely grey-silky
beneath. The flowers purplish or pink, in 15-30 cm long axillary racemes.
The fruits, pods, oblong, flattened, covered with sticky hairs. The seeds
4-6, compressed and brownish black in color. The plant flowers in May.
Medicinal uses: The whole plant of salaparni is used for
medicinal purpose in Ayurvedic medicine. The herb is seldom used
externally. Internally it is useful in vast range of diseases. It is used
in the treatment for asthma and nervous dysfunction. It is also used in the
treatment of insect bites and used against inflammations, vomiting, etc.
Identification credit: S. Kasim
Photographed in Maharashtra.
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