A large shrub or small evergreen or deciduous tree to 5 m tall with a short trunk, thin smooth, grey or brown bark and a dense shady crown. Most parts of the plant are covered with fine down and have a strong peculiar smell. Leaves pinnately compound, 15 to 30 cm long, arranged spirally crowded on the ends of branchlets, rachis terete, pubescent, petioles 1.2 to 1.5 cm long; leaflets 11 to 25, alternate on rachis, ovate-lanceolate with an oblique base, margins irregularly crenate, pubescent beneath, petiolules 2 to 3 mm long. Flowers white, numerous in broad terminal clusters. Fruits (berries) ovoid to subglobose, wrinkled or rough with glands, to 2.5 cm long and 0.8 cm in diameter, purplish-black when ripe; 2-seeded.

Stimulates the cardiovascular system and on the nictating membrane (root); hypoglycemic, Hair tonic (leaf); alleviates spasms (aerial part); antiprotozoal (root and aerial part).

Curry leaves
Murraya koenigii (L.) Spreng.

Mukonine, mukonidine, murrayanine and mukoeic acid (carbazole alkaloids of plant); coumarin glucosides and scopolin (leaf); koeniginf (a glucoside).

In diarrhea, dysentery and relieving pain associated with the stomach and kidneys (leaf); for rashes and bites from poisonous insects and reptiles (bark); for skin eruptions and poisonous bites (root and bark); cure skin eruptions and to relieve burns (crushed leaves).

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