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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC009 : Canavalia gladiata Sensu Robyns.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 111  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Canavalia Adans. - jackbean
Species : Canavalia gladiata (Jacq.) DC. - sword jackbean
Plant Location in Melghat : In Chourakund,Rangubeli, Chikhaldara (Frequent along banks of Tapi river)  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Leguminosae  
 
Plant Common Name : Jack bean, Jamaican horse bean, scimitar bean, sword bean, makkhan sem, abai,
 
Synonym : Canavalia ensiformis sensu auct.
Canavalia ensiformis "sensu Baker, p.p."
Canavalia foureiri G.Don
Canavalia gladiolata J.D.Sauer
Canavalia incurva (Thunb.) DC.
Canavalia incurva Thouars
Canavalia loureirii G.Don
Canavalia machaeroides (DC.) Steud.
Canavalia maxima Thouars
Dolichos gladiatus Jacq.
Dolichos incurvus Thunb.
Malocchia gladiata (Jacq.) Savi.
Description : Perennial trailing or climbing herb up to 10 m long, often grown as an annual; root system deep. Leaves alternate, pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules small, deciduous; petiole 5–17 cm long; leaflets with 4–7 mm long stalks, ovate, 7.5–20 cm × 5–14 cm, apex acuminate, shortly pubescent on both sides. Inflorescence an axillary raceme 7–12 cm long; peduncle 4–20 cm long. Flowers bisexual, papilionaceous, often resupinate; calyx up to 1.5 cm long, 2-lipped with a large 2-fid upper lip and a much smaller 3-fid lower lip; corolla white, standard c. 3.5 cm long; stamens 10, all joined; ovary superior, style slender, curved, stigma small. Fruit a linear-oblong pod, slightly compressed, sometimes curved, 20–40(–60) cm × 3.5–5 cm, widest near the apex, 8–16-seeded, spirally dehiscent; each valve with ventral rib and extra rib spaced c. 4 mm. Seeds 2–3.5 cm × 1.5–2 cm, red or red-brown, rarely black, pink or white; hilum 1.5–2.0 cm long. Seedling with epigeal germination; first 2 leaves simple, opposite, with stipules connate.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : In Korea it is used in the treatment of vomiting, abdominal dropsy, kidney-related lumbago, asthma, obesity, stomach-ache, dysentery, coughs, headache, intercostal neuralgia, epilepsy, schizophrenia, inflammatory diseases and swellings. In Japan it is effective in treating ozena, haemorrhoids, pyorrhea, otitis media, boils and cancers, all kinds of inflammatory diseases and atopic dermatitis. In Korea soap is marketed based on extracts of sword bean; it is used for the treatment of athlete’s foot and acne. In Japan it is effective in treating ozena, haemorrhoids, pyorrhoea, otitis media, boils and cancers, all kinds of inflammatory diseases and atopic dermatitis.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Concanavalin A
Reference : ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697

~ Holaly E. Gbekley, Gnatoulma Katawa, Simplice D. Karou, SKokou Anani, Tchacondo Tchadjobo, Yaovi Ameyapoh, Komlan Batawila, and Jacques Simpore; "Ethnobotanical Study Of Plants Used To Treat Asthma In The Maritime Region In Togo"; Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. (2017); 14(1): 196-212 PMID : 28480398

~ Ren-You Gan Wing-Yee Lui Harold Corke; "Sword bean (Canavalia gladiata) as a source of antioxidant phenolics"; Int J Food Sci +Tech (2016); 51(1): 156-162 PMID :

~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151

~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320

~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID :

~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Surolia A, Prakash N, Bishayee S, Bachhawat BK; "Isolation and comparavative physico chemical studies of Concanavalin A from Canavalia ensiformis and Canavalia gladiata"; Indian J Biochem Biophys (1973); 10(3): 145-48 PMID : 4799820

~ Emebiri, L.C; "Evaluation of the jackbean (Canavalia ensiformis) lines derived from natural crossing with swordbean (Canavalia gladiata)."; Biological Agriculture and Horticulture (1996); 12(4): 319-325 PMID :