Distribution and Habitat: Through out India.

Botany: Woody climber, stem stout

• Leaves: Simple, large ,ovate, acute, cordate, glabrous above, white tomentose beneath, 7.5-30 by 6.3-25 cm;
• Flowers: Large, silky, pubescent  in long peduncled cymes, calyx white  tomentose outside, sepals 1.7 cm long; corolla 5-6.3 cm long, corolla tubular-infundibuliform;
• Fruits:  Dry, globose, about 2.0 cm in diameter, apiculate. 

Chemical constituent: 

• Seed- 1-tri contanol, β-sitosterol and epifriedelinol(leaf and seed); ergine, isoergine, penniclavin, ergometrin, caffeic acid, ethyl caffeate, ergolin alkaloids, hallucinogens, lysergic acid amide and isolysergic acid amide
• Seed oil - Fatty acids
• Roots - tetradecanyl palmitate and 5, 8- oxidotetracosan-10-one

Uses: Root is used in anorexia, nervous weakness, cerebral disorders, cardiac debility and the leaves are used in boils, ring worm infection, eczema 

Formulations: Ajmodadi churna

Propagation: Stem cuttings and seeds.