An erect shrubby plant up to about 0.5 m tall, with terete stems about 3 mm in diameter, initially densely pubescent. Leaves are narrowly lanceolate, 10 to 16 centimeters long, 2 to 4 centimeters wide, widest near the rounded or rather heart-shaped base, and tapering to a pointed tip. Fruit is oblong or oblong-obovoid and less than 1 centimeter in length.

Carminative, emmenagogue and febrifuge (whole plant); a violent abortive (roots)

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

Roots are chewed to treat gastralgia, and, macerated in spirituous liquor, the drug is administered as a uterine tonic after childbirth.