Fever Nut
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Common name: Fever nut, Gray Nicker, Gray Nickerbean, Nicker Nut, कट करंज Kat Karanj (Hindi), सागरघोटा Sagarghota (Marathi), Gachakaya (Telugu), Gajagakai (Kannada), पुतीकरंज Putikaranja (Sanskrit)
Botanical name: Caesalpinia bonducella
Family: Fabaceae (pea family)
A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having glossy branch-lets, recurved prickles, yellow flowers, found wild throughout the plains of India and up to an altitude of 1,000 m in Himalayas. It can be invasive as it often forms dense thickets climbing as a vine or tall shrub high over native vegetation. Flowers are deep yellow, maybe orangish, to pale yellow. It produces bitter, ovoid to polished seeds in swollen fruits.
Medicinal uses: These nuts have been used as an anti-periodic for a long time. Pharmacological trials have revealed diuretic and anti-pyretic activity of the nuts, and besides adaptogenic, antimicrobial and muscle contractile activity.
