Origin:
Grown as a field and boundary fence and as curious on rockeries in gardens.
Action:
Latex—purgative, diuretic, antiasthmatic, expectorant, rubefacient. Used in ascites, polyuria, anasarca, chlorosis, tympanitis; externally on warts, cutaneous eruptions, scabies, unhealthy ulcers.
Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 836.