Elakanni ഇലക്കണ്ണി

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Elakanni is an annual herb, 3-4 ft long. Branches are long, straight loke a rod, straggling, smooth with very long intemodes below. Alternately arranged leaves are small, compound. Rachis is bristly. Leaflets are 8-16, 0.6-1.2 cm long, oblong, blunt, with a short point at the tip. Leaves are hairless above. Yellow flowers appear in pairs in the axils of upper leaves, crowded at the end of branches. They are shaped like pea flowers.
Leaves are used as a vegetable. The herb is considered to possess laxative and tonic properties and given to cure biliousness and rheumatism, also used to cure sterility in women.