Caesalpaenia bonducella
commonly known as karanju in Hindi
belongs to the family Fabaceae. It
is an Indian wild shrub. It grows near the sea coast of all hot
countries and specially throughout in India above 2000 meter of sea level. It
is widely available at sea coast of West Bengal and Southern India also. The
paste of its twigs with lime water is used in intestinal worms, leaf powder
with decoction of long peeper as tonic and powder of seeds in malaria fever,
dyspepsia and colic, while the oil derived from seeds is used in facial
paralysis. He natives of Kangra (Himachal Pradesh ) use its roots in
intermittent fever and diabetis mellitus. In SriLanka, the plant is used for
the treatment of fractures. Its seeds
are used in Homoeopathy for the preparation of medicine. The drug has been
reported to have the properties like anti-periodic, anti-rheumatic and
anti-diabetic. The trial of this drug was done by CCRH during the period
1982-2003, in different potencies, viz.
Q, 6c, 30c & 200c. It was found
that Caesalpaenia bonducella
is not only useful for the treatment of intermittent fever but also to manage the complaints of mind, head,
nose, stomach, abdomen, rectum and skin. The sign & symptoms
which were verified in a number of patients are enlargement of liver,
diarrhoea, headache, allergic dermatitis, weakness after fever and depression
as mentioned in homoeopathic literatures. Besides these, symptoms/
conditions like coryza, bilious vomiting, alternate constipation & diarrhoea
and seasonal fever etc., were also cured or reduced markedly during the
treatment, which can be considered as additional clinical symptoms of the
medicine.