Jayanti Sesbania sesban - Medicinal Properties, Photographs & Uses

Jayanti Sesbania sesban is a medicinal plant. It is known for its use in sore throat, cervical lymphadenopathy and for its anti-inflammatory properties. It is also used as a best medicine for Scorpion sting.

Botanical Name of Jayanti – Sesbania sesban, Sesbania aegyptiaca, Aeschynomene elongata, Aeschynomene aegyptiaca, Aeschynomene sesban, Sesbania tchadica or Sesbania punctata.
Family Name of Jayanti is Fabaceae.

Classical Categorization

In Ayurvedic classics, plants have been categorized under Varga and Gana. Like wiseJayanti Sesbania sesban comes under –

Acc. to Raja Nighantu – Shatahvadi Varga
Acc. to Kaiyadeva Nighantu – Aushadhi Varga
Acc. to Dhanvantri Nighantu – Guduchyadhi Varga
Acc. to Bhavaprakasa Nighantu – Guduchyadhi varga
Acc. to Priya Nighantu – Haritakyadi Varga

Vernacular Names

Jayanti Sesbania sesban is known by different names in different languages.

Arabic – Saisaban, Torero
English – Common sesban, Egyptian Rattle pod, Egyptian Sesban, Egyptian River hemp, Yellow wisteria tree.
Gujarati – Rayasingan
Hindi – Jait, Jayanti, Jhijham
Malayalam – Kitannu
Marathi – Jayat
Tamil – Asnaparni
Telugu – Mallasominta, Jalugu, Sominta
Odiya – Joyontri

Sanskrit Synonyms of Jayanti Sesbania sesban

In Ayurveda, many synonyms of Jayanti Sesbania sesban plant has been described in Sanskrit. Few of them are listed below –

Jayanti – Daughter of Lord Indra
Jaya – Victorious
Jayantika – Banner of Indra
Nadeyi – River born
Vijaya – Victorious
Harita
Sukshma mula
Balamota
Aparajita – Which can’t be defeated
Vikranta

Systemic Classification

Kingdom – Plantae
Phylum – Angiosperms
Class – Magnoliatae
Subclass – Rosidae
Order – Rosales
Family – Fabaceae
Genus – Sesbania
Species – sesban

Useful Parts of Jayanti Sesbania sesban

Mula (roots)
Twak (stem bark)
Patra (leaves)
Pushpa (flowers)
Phala (fruits)
Beeja (seed pod)

Therapeutic Uses of Jayanti Sesbania sesban

Jayanti Sesbania sesban can be used externally or internally according to diseases.

External Uses of Jayanti Sesbania sesban

Warm Kalka (paste) of leaf is applied to Vidradhi (abscess) and vriddhi (over growth or tumor) and in sandhi shotha (inflammation of joints).
Decotion of Jayanti Sesbania sesban is useful in cleansing wound.
Lepan (application) of leaves is useful in Khalitya (baldness) and Palitya (premature greying of hairs).
Paste of seeds or roots is applied as vedana sthapana (analgesic) in scorpion bite.
Paste of leaves is useful in galaganda (goiter), Kushtha (chronic skin disease) and kandu (itching).

Internal Uses of Jayanti Sesbania sesban

Beeja choorna (seed powder) or patra swarasa (leaves juice) is used as deepana (appetizer), grahi (astringent) and krimighna (antihelmintic).
Bark decoction of Jayanti Sesbania sesban stem is used in rakta dushti (blood impurities).
Patra swarasa (leaf juice) of Jayanti Sesbania sesban is useful in swara bheda (hoarseness of voice) and pratishyaya (common cold and flu).
Leaf decoction is used in ikshumeha (diabetes) and bahumutrata (polyuria).
Kalka (paste) of flowers are made in to a gruel and taken internally for 3 days after menstrual cycle as a contraceptive.
Paste of leaves is applied to head for treating hair diseases and decoction of leaves is used as a hair wash.
The decoction of leaves is used in hoarseness, throat infection, cold, coryza and cough ailments.
Leaves are cooked to vegetable which is given to the patient in case of relapsing coryzal tendency or chronic coryza.
Flowers are orally recommended as an anti fertility herbal remedy which carries classical base in textual sources.
Seeds are stimulant and astringent in property and heal chronic ulcers and eruptions. Seeds of Jayanti Sesbania sesban are also useful in diseases of spleen, diarrhoea and excessive menstrual flow.
Seeds of Jayanti Sesbania sesban removes small pox eruptions.
Seeds powder mixed with flour applied to itching of the skin and other skin infections.

Indications of Jayanti Sesbania sesban

Jayanti Sesbania sesban is indicated in following diseases –

Twag vikara (skin ailments), Kandu (itching)
Kustharoga – Shvitra (leucoderma)
Vidradhi (abscess)
Sandhi sotha (inflammation of joints)
Jangama Visa (animal poisons like scorpion bite/ sting)
Kesya (good for hairs) – khalitya (baldness), Palitya (premature greying of hairs)
Galaganda (goiter)
Prameha (diabetes and polyuria)
Pliharoga (spleenomegaly)
Masurika (chicken pox)
Slaishmika vikara (kapha dominance) – svara bheda (hoarsness of voice), pratishyaya.
Kashtartava (dysmenorrhea), rajarodha (amenorrhea)
Agnimandya (loss of appetiete), Atisara (dysentery) and Krimi (worm infestation).

Ayurvedic Properties

In Ayurveda, properties of every plants / drug is described by Rasa, Guna, Veerya, Vipaka and doshaghnata. Have a look below to know about Ayurvedic properties of Jayanti Sesbania sesban –