Origin:
Throughout India, ascending to 2,000 m in the Himalayas.

Action:
Plant—brain tonic, tranquilizer used in nervine disorders, mental aberration, anxiety neu-rosis, internal haemorrhages, spermatorrhoea. Also astringent, antidysenteric, antispasmodic, antiphlogistic, febrifuge, alterative.
Flowers—styptic, used for uterine bleeding.
Leaf—antiasthmatic, used in chronic bronchitis.
Root—used in gastric and duodenal ulcers, uterine affections and for promotingfertility.

Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 836.