Origin

Throughout Northern and Northwestern India, and in drier regions of Deccan.

Action:

Plant—emmenagogue, abortifacient.

Seeds—narcotic, hypnotic, antispasmodic, anodyne and emetic; used in asthma, hiccough, colic, neuralgia, hysteria, dysmenorrhoea; used as abortifacient (properties similar to ergot, savine and rue). (Dried seeds constitute the drug Harmal of Indian medicine.)

Toxicity

Plant— abortifacient.

Seeds—narcotic.

Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 472.