Five important plants in caespiniaceae family and their economic importance

3. It is a viny perennial shrub growing
in shade as well as in open condition.
This plant is well known for its
medicinal and therapeutic values in
Indian Ayurveda.
The seeds are of more therapeutic
values also used as ornamentals.
There are claims that its leaves or
seeds/ seed kernel possess
antipyretic, antidiuretic,
antibacterial, antiviral,
antiestrogenic and antidiabetic
activities .
Caesalpinia bonducella [Gray
Nicker]

4. Caesalpinia bonducella seeds have long been
used in traditional medicine.
They help in treating symptoms and ailments,
including abdominal pain, colic, leprosy, fever,
edema, and malaria.
It is also used as a uterine stimulant, and to
cleanse the uterus during the postpartum
period.
The seeds is mixed with black pepper, and
used as a tonic.
The seeds are used as beads for necklaces,
bracelets and rosacies.
The bark is used as a tonic.

5. Bauhinia malabarica
It is a moderate deciduous tree
distributed mainly in the Sub-
Himalayan tracts and southern
parts of India.
They are edible and is being
commonly prescribed to treat
cough, gout, glandular swellings and
gotter, haemorrhage, menorrhagia,
leprosy scrofula, urinary disorders,
wasting diseases, worm infestations
and wounds and for liver disorders.
The leaves are used for flavouring
food stuff.

6. The tender seeds and
leafy tips are eaten as
vegetables.
The bark is used for
dyeing and tanning.
It is used as diuretic,
to fight dysentery and
as an emmenagogue.
Leaves applied to the
forehead for fevers.

7. Cassia fistula
It is commonly called as golden
shower tree. It grows to a height
of 10 to 15 cm tall with a straight
trunk to 5m in height and 1m in
diameter.
This is grown mainly as an
ornamental tree.
The pulp of the fruits is used as a
purgative and laxative
Cassia fistula contains anti-
inflammatory properties.
It contains hepatoprotective and
antitussive characteristics.

8. It contains antibacterial and antifungal
properties.
It is used for healing of wounds and
gastrointestinal illness.
It is an excellent source of glycosides,
tannins, and flavonoids.
The fruit pulp of Cassia fistula is
sometimes used as a mild laxative in
paediatrics.
Cassia fistula is widely planted as an
ornamental, often along roads, and it
provides a hard multipurpose timber.
They are specially used in jaundice, piles,
rheumatism ulcers and also externally
skin eruptions, ring worms and eczema.

9. Senna tora
Senna tora was originally described by Linnaeus as Cassia
tora.
It grows wild in most of the tropics and is considered a
weed in many places.
It is used as a natural pesticide in organic farms, and as
a powder commonly used in the pet food industry.
It is mixed with guar gum for use in mining and other
industrial applications.
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10.  The seeds and leaves are used to
treat skin disease and its seeds can
be utilized as a laxative.
 The seeds are used in preparation
of sweets.
 According to Ayurveda the leaves
and seeds are acrid, laxative ,
antiperiodic, anthelmintic,
ophthalmic, liver tonic, cardiotonic
and expectorant.
 The leaves and seeds are useful in
leprosy, ringworm, flatulence, colic,
dyspepsia, constipation, cough,
bronchitis, cardiac disorders.

11. Caesalpinia sappan
[Sappan wood]
It is a small to medium sized, thorny
tree, growing up to 10 metres, with
conspicuous spines on the stem and leaf
rachis.
The plant’s heartwood is used in
traditional medicine as a treatment for
contusion and thrombosis.
The paste of the wood is used in curing
rheumatism, haemorrhages, and
wounds.
The heartwood yields a red dye, which
is used for cosmetic purposes, as it is
resistant to sun rays, light, heat, and
water.

12.  It is one of the ingredients of indigenous drug
‘lucol’, which is administered for the treatment of
non-specific leucorrhoea.
 The plant has anti-cancerous and anti-diarrhoeal
properties.
 The oil obtained from the leaves shows anti-
bacterial and anti-fungal action.
 The heart wood of the tree possesses anti thirst,
blood purifying, anti diabetic, complexion
enhancing and several other properties.