Origin:
Southern parts of Uttar Pradesh adjoining Madhya Pradesh, also in Bihar and Western Ghats.

Action:
Leaf—when chewed, emporarily paralyses the sense of taste for sweet and bitter substances.
Plant—used as stomachic, bechic, expectorant, and inmale impotency, poor lactation.

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