It is a scandent shrub with pubescent young shoots. Leaves are opposite, ovate or elliptic, obtuse or acute and glabrous or pubescent. Flowers are 3 to many flowered and are borne in terminal cymes or solitary. The berries are globose and blue-black.
A poultice of the bruised root or leaves or flowers unmoistened applied to the breasts to arrest the secretion of milk in the puerperal state in cases of threatened abscess.
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