Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir.

Turi (Sesbania grandiflora) is a tree 5-12 meters tall of the Fabaceae family, thought to originate from South and Southeast Asia, distributed to Indonesia, Malaysia, and India. Its white or red flowers are commonly eaten as a pecel vegetable or soup mixture, while its seeds are an alternative raw material for making soy sauce. Various parts of turi are traditionally used differently: the flower as a skin softener, the bark for chickenpox, and the leaves as a diuretic.

Turi grows in yards, gardens, and rice fields with fertile, acidic, watery soil and can live at elevations of 0-1,000 m above sea level, fruiting poorly if grown above that elevation.
 

• Roots are a taproot type with nodules.
• Stem has hanging twigs.
• Leaves compound, spread out in position, with stipules 0.5-1 cm long.
• Flowers large in clusters emerging from leaf axils, hanging with 2-5 stalked flowers, crescent-shaped buds, 5-10 cm long, some pink and white. When bloomed, the flowers are butterfly-shaped.
• Fruit a hanging pod shape, 30-50 cm x 1-1.5 cm in size. Young fruit green, mature fruit yellow.
   

Cultivation can be done by planting the seed or using stem cuttings.
 

Isoflavonoids (medicarpin, sativan, betulinic acid, isovestitol), tannins, coumarins, steroids, triterpenes, leucocyanidin, cyanidin, oleanolic acid, kaempferol-3-rutinoside, saponins, sesbanimide.
 

• Flower: skin softener, laxative.
• Bark: chickenpox, pain relief (analgesic), fever reducer, canker sore remedy, astringent, emetic, treats bruises from impact.
• Leaves: dissolves blood clots, diuretic.
   

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