घण्टा – Crotalaria verrucosa

 

Name – शणपुष्पी

Botanical name – Crotalaria verrucosa

Description – Erect much branched herbs. Leaves ovate-rhomboid. Flowers bluish and white, in terminal or lateral racemes. Pod cylindric, pubescent.

Chemical Constituents- Leaves contain tropane alkaloid, necic acid lactone. Seeds contain alkaloid crotalaburine, crotaverine, O-acetyl-crotoverrine, flavonoid isovitexin, vitexin-4′-xyloside, vitexin-O-glycoside and apigenin-O-glycoside, Beta-sitosterol

Use – Leaves used in scabies and impetigo