Origin:
Throughout India; common in Bengal, Maharashtra and extending to Travancore.
Action:
Bloodpurifier, antisyphilitic, antileucorrhoeic, galactogenic, antidiarrhoeal, antirheumatic, febrifuge, alterative. Roots used against gonorrhoea, leucoderma, bleeding piles, jaundice and dysentery.
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Origin
Mizoram, Northeast India
Parts used
Root: Skin eruption
Stalk leaf: Sore
1) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 836.
2) Birla Kshetrimayum/ Medicinal Plants and Its Therapeutic Uses/ USA: OMICS Group eBooks, 2017. p. 28