A legume plant found in South Asia, used in traditional cooking and medicine; also known as Cassia auriculata.
From Tamil and other South Indian languages, 'avaram' is the local name for a plant that has been used for centuries in Ayurvedic and traditional South Asian medicine. The term reflects deep botanical knowledge embedded in regional languages.
Avaram is a perfect example of how pharmaceutical companies now study plants with thousand-year-old names from Indian languages—the traditional healers already knew what Western science is just discovering!
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