Spices & Medicinal herbs

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Herb : Rosary pea

(Botanical name: Abrus precatorius)

Classification

• Kingdom : Plantae
• Division- Magnoliophyta
• Class- Magnoliopsida
• Order- Fabales
• Family- Fabaceae
• Genus- Abrus
• Species- A.precatorius

Rosary pea is an ornamental plant and an efficient abortifacient herb.

History

The range of this herb is native of India and other parts of Asia. It is small shrub with alternatively compound leaves.

The plant is an ornamental in some parts of world though it is highly toxic.

The red seeds of rosary pea are used in jewellery.

Plant Description

The plant is small tropical climbing vine that grows indigenous in Indonesia and Surinam.

The flowers are small pale violet coloured that are arranged in cluster.

The leaves are alternate 5-13cm long and pinnately compound with 5-15 pairs of leaflets.

The fruit is a small oblong red colour pod with a black base splitting before as if it will fall is hard seeds of about 6-7 mm long.

Cultivation

Abrus is widely cultivated as a garden ornamental plant due to its beautiful seed pods.

It can be commonly seen as weed of roadside, garden, disturbed sites and waterways sites of eastern Australia.

It has become naturalized and cultivated in northern Australia, south-eastern Asia, tropical Asia and western pacific.

Parts Used

Seed pods are used

Uses

• Rosary pea is generally known as an abortefacient herb that induces abortion. The powder or tablets of this herb is used as oral contraceptive.
• The seed pods of rosary are used in jewelry in many parts of world. Some where it is used as beads and some uses in necklaces to be worn in neck.
• The rosary plant is traditionally used in medicines to treat sores and scratches, poisonous wounds. The leaves are thought to have anti-suppurative properties.
• In certain parts of India the boiled seeds are used to eat.
• The seeds are also used to cure diabetes and chronic nephritis.

Names

• English-: Black-eyed Susan, Coral-beadplant, Crab's eyes, Indian licorice, Jamaican licorice, Jequirity, Jequirity bean, Jumbie beads, Jumble beads, Licorice vine, Love bean, Love nut, Lucky bean, Minnie minnies, Prayer beads, Prayer beans, Precatory, Precatory bean, Red beadvine, Rosary pea, Weatherplant, Weathervine, Wild liquorice.
• French-Cascavelle (Réunion), Graine diable (Réunion), Herbe de diable (Réunion), Soldat (Réunion), Réglisse (Réunion), Réglisse marron, Pater noster (Réunion), Jéquirity, Grain d'église, Pois rouge.
• German-: Paternoster-Erbse.
• Burmese-: Ywe gale, Ywe nge.
• Madurese-: Ga'saga'an lakek.