Origin:
The Deccan Peninsula, extending northwards to eastern Himalayas.

Action:
Leaves—decoction prescribed in fever, also in venereal diseases.
Root—used in mammary umours and abscesseses, pneumonia and infantile diarrhoea. Plant infusion is used as a cough remedy for infants.

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