An evergreen, tomentose shrub, 7 m in height and 45 cm in girth with 3 m clear bole. Leaves imparipinnate: leaflets broadly elliptic to ovate; flowers sulphur-yellow, in terminal racemes; pods constricted, covered with brown-velvety down; seeds nearly globular, pale brown, 1-8 in each pod.

Antifungal (aerial part); anticholinergic, astringent, febrifugal, stomachic and dangerously emetocathartic (seed); expectorant (seed oil)

Sophora tomentosa

Sophoraisoflavanones A and B, iso-sophoranone, sophoronol and iso-bavachin (aerial part); matrine, cytisine, methylcytisine (leaves and seeds)

As an anticholinergic ans in stomachache (seed); in bilious disorders (seed and root); in cough (seed oil)

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.