Distribution:
Commonly found throughout India, up to an altitude of 5,400 m.

Habit:
T.t is a variable, prostrate annual. The roots are slender and cylindrical, light brown and faintly aromatic. The leaves are paripinnate; the leaflets, 5-8 pairs, subequal, oblong to linear-oblong. The flowers are leaf-opposed, solitary, pale-yellow to yellow; the fruits, globose, consisting of 5-12 woody cocci, each with 2 pairs of hard, sharp, divaricate spines, one pair longer than the other. Several seeds are seen in each coccus with transverse partitions between them.

Principle constituent:
Harmine

Indications:
It is well known diuretic plant drug useful in urolithiasis, dysurea, impotence and kidney dysfunction.

Product range:
Bonnisan, Diabecon, Geriforte, Rumalaya, Spemen, Spemen forte, Menotab