Description
The traditional medicinal plant which is Native to India.Plants used in the treatment of skin diseases, snake bite & Blood pressure.
It is a twining perennial herb, with branchlets slender. Leaves are ovate-lance shaped or ovate-oblong, base flat, tip pointed to tapering, hairless, leaf-stalk is long. Flowers are borne in few flowered racemes in leaf-axils. Flower-stalks are long, elongate in fruits. Bracts are about 1.5 mm long, lance-shaped.
The ovary is about 2 mm long; stigmas 6, fleshy. The capsule is spherical-pear-shaped, 6 ridged, splitting from the base, parachute-like after splitting. Seeds are broadly deltoid, flat, winged. Useful for the treatment of poisoning by inducing vomiting, skin diseases, cough.
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