Origin:

Throughout India, from Punjab and Kumaon eastwards; in Assam, Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and South India.

Action:

Dried fruit—stomachic; used in pestilent fevers, also as an antidote to poisons.

Root— purgative, sudorific.

Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 380.