Climbers
Alakusi
Mucuna pruiens (L.) DC
Common Name
Velvet Bean
Family
Fabaceae
Flowering Period
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Fruiting Period
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Importance & Uses
Mucuna pruriens leaves are used in bone fractures, cough, dog-bite, madness, pain, pleuritis, ring worm, scorpion sting, snake-bite, sores and syphilis. The roots are used in curing cholera, diuretic and purgative.