| PlantID | 0067 |
| Botanical Name | Caesalpinia bonduc |
| Common Name | Nikhar nut |
| Classification | | Kingdom: | Plantae | | Subkingdom: | Tracheobionta | | Division: | Magnoliophyta | | Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Subclass: | Rosidae | | Order: | Fabales | | Family: | Caesalpiniaceae | | Genus: | Caesalpinia | | Species: | bonduc |
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| Part used | Root bark, leaves, seeds |
| Medicinal Properties | The root bark is emmenagogue, febrifuge, expectorant, anthelmintic and stomachic. The leaves are anthelmintic, emmenagogue, febrifuge. The seeds are bitter, astringent, acrid, thermogenic, anodyne, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, digestive, stomachic, liver-tonic, depurative, expectorant, contraceptive, antipyretic and aphrodisiac. |
| Medicinal Use | Root bark: It is useful in amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, fevers, cough, asthma, intestinal worms, colic, flatulence and dyspepsia. Leaves: leaves are useful in elephantiasis, intestinal worms, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, fevers and pharyngodynia. Seeds: seeds are useful in vitiated conditions of tridosa, arthralgia, inflammations, hydrocele, cough, asthma, leucoderma, leprosy, skin diseases, dyspepsia, dysentery, colic, haemorrhoids, intestinal worms, hepatopathy, splenopathy, diabetes and intermittent fevers. |
| Chemistry | Seed kernels contains Alpha-, Beta-, Gamma-, Delta- and Epsilon-caesalpins, caesalpin F and a homoisoflavone, bonducellin. |
| Cultivation | NA |
| Regional Habitat | Throughout Rajasthan, in the plains on waste lands and coastal areas |
| Description | A large straggling, very thorny shrub, branches armed with hooks and straight hard yellow prickles; leaves bipinnate, large, stipules, foliaceous, pinnae 7 pairs, leaflets 3-8 pairs with 1-2 small recurved prickles between them on the underside; flowers yellow, in dense long peduncled supra-axillary racemes at the top; fruits inflated pods, covered with wiry prickles, seeds 1-2 per pod, oblong or globulat, hard, grey with a smooth shiny surface. |
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