It is a tall aromatic herb or under shrub, often forming thickets. The stem is leafy and paniculately branched. Leaves are ovate, lobed, lacinate or 1 to 2 pinnatipartite and white-tomentose beneath; lobes acute, irregularly serrate, or lobulate. Flowers are borne in fascicles or panicled heads. The achenes are minute, ellipsoid and oblong with no pappus.

Antilithic, antiseptic, anthelmintic, emmenagogue, febrifuge, stomachic, antiseptic, tonic, larvicidal. insecticidal. antimicrobial and antifungal (essential plant oil); purifies blood (flower and stem); anthelmintic (flower and leaf decoction).

Camphor, 1:8-cineole, borneol, beta-tujone and beta-pinene (from essential plant oil; the latter two compounds are in smaller quantities).

Used in parturition, in measles, skin diseases, epilepsy, nervous diseases, asthma, peptic ulcers, blood purifier and as an antihelmintic (stem and flower); debility (flower and leaf).

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.