Origin
Cultivated in Tamil Nadu; Maharashtra and North India.
Action:
Leaf—stomachic, antiprotozoal, spasmolytic; promotes appetite and digestion, destroys pathogenic organism, antidysenteric. Externally, used against skin eruptions.
Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 428.