Origin
Native to Europe; cultivated in Maharashtra, Kashmir and Punjab.
Action:
Oil—digestive, carminative, chloretic, antispasmodic, diuretic, antiemetic, mild sedative, diapho- retic, antiseptic, antiviral, used in many mixtures of indigestion and colic and cough and cold remedies.
Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 412.