6 Effective Medicinal Benefits of Sesbania Grandiflora

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Sesbania grandiflora
Sesbania grandiflora or sesban is also known with its common name - Vegetable Hummingbird, agati or hummingbird tree. It is called sesbania grandiflora because it produces grand, showy, large, papilionaceous, white or cream-colored flowers with a tinge of pink in the bud stage. 

This tree grows up to 10 meters in height. The paripinnate compound leaves are about 28cm long with 16 to 30 pairs of leaflets. 

The calyx is bell-shaped and the fruits or pods are about 30 to 50 cm long with kidney-shaped brown leaves. The tender leaves, pods, and flowers are eaten as a vegetable.

Medicinal Uses of Sesbania Grandiflora:

  • Cures inflammation.
  • Helps remove worms from the body, itching, leprosy, night blindness, epilepsy, and gout. Use as a tonic and for ophthalmia.
  • It also acts as an appetizer, for bronchitis, and congestion of the liver. It also checks ozena or an offensive smell discharge from the nose.
  • It is also a laxative, checks fever, pains, anemia, and tumors, and improves memory.
  • For nasal catarrh or inflammation of the mucous membrane with a discharge and for headache and sinusitis or inflammation of the sinus.
  • It also cures bruises.

How to Use the Sesbania Grandiflora:

  • The decoction of the roots is used in curing inflammations.
  • The infusion of the leaves will cure the 2nd set of illnesses stated above.
  • The infusion of the flowers will cure the 3rd set of illnesses stated above.
  • The decoction of the fruits will cure the 4th set of illnesses stated above.
  • The juice of the leaves or flowers will cure the 5th set of illnesses stated above.
  • A poultice of the leaves of the Sesbania is a popular remedy for bruises.
  • The juice of the roots given with honey is a good expectorant to check cough and the pounded bark is applied to scabies and used for the ulceration of the tongue and alimentary canal.

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