Distribution and Habitat: Found throughout India.

Botany: Very slender procumbent, long trailing herb; stem trails from  15-45 cm,copiously branched, covered with fine spreading hairs 

• Leaves: Alternate, stipules persistent, petioles 0.3-0.6 cm long, trifoliate,  leaflets obovate, truncate with a few adpressed  hair on the lower surface
• Flowers: Pink or white, axillary or in sparse lax racemes, bract deciduous
• Fruits: Pods, with a straight upper edge and indented lower edge, reticulately veined.

Properties:  It is antiseptic, antispasmodic, sympathomimetic, CNS stimulative,  and curariminetic.

Chemical constituents: β-Phenyl amine, indole-3-acetic acid, trigonelline, Hypaphorine(major) and its Methyl ester, N, N-di-Methyl- tryptophan Methyl ester.

Uses:  It is used in diarrhea, dysentery, eye-troubles, blindness, whitlow, Spleen complaints, menorrhagia  and diuretic.