Distribution and habitat:  Throughout India.

Botany: A perennial evergreen, climbing hispid herb with scattered stinging hairs; stems slender, elongate, twining. 

• Leaves  : Simple, alternate, stipulate, oblong-lanceolate to broadly ovate, serrate, base rounded or cordate.
• Flowers : Shortly pedicellate, in terminal axillary and leaf opposed racemes, male flowers many in the upper part, female flowers few in the lower part; ovary 3-lobed, styles 3.
• Fruit:   Capsules, 3-lobed. Seeds globose, smooth.       

Properties: Antidermatic, antidiabetic, antirheumatic, diuretic

Chemical constituents: Stigmasterol, Quercetin, Rutin, iridin, dihexosyl quercetin, quercetin-3-O-rutinoside, rhamnosyl hexosyl methyl quercetin etc.

Uses: Useful in pruritic skin eruptions, venereal diseases, haemorrhoids, blood impurities

Propagation:  Seeds