Origin:
Throughout warmer regions of India, up to 1,500 m in the Himalaya.
Action:
Plant—used in colic, diarrhoea and dysentery.
Leaf— astringent, antidysenteric, antileucorrhoeic (also used inmenorrhagia).
Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 836.