A perennial, woody sub-shrub, up to 1 m high. Leaves mostly ovate or broadly ovate to lanceolate, base cordate or subcordate; flowers blue-purple, white or violet, solitary axillary, in erect or ascending shoots; follicles oblong, slightly archedrecurved, glabrous or pubescent, 2.0-2.5 cm long; seeds cylindric, brown, with light-brown tubercles, 1.0-1.2 cm long.

Abortifacient, astringent, antigalactagogue and antihaemorrhagic (plant extract)

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10-methoxyvellosimine, catafoline, lanceomigine, majorine, majovine, pubescine, reserpinine, vincamajoreine, vincamine, vincine, vincanovine

For treating haemorrhages, excessive menstruation, abnormal uterine bleeding, vaginal discharge, in cases of nose bleed, bleeding gums, mouth ulcers or sore throats and hardening of the arteries (plant)