An erect, profusely branched herb, upto 1.5 m in height. Stem angular, longitudinally grooved, hairy or scabrid; leaves alternate, 2-8 x 3-5 cm, pinnately or bipinnately lobed; flower-heads in axillary or terminal lax corymbose cymes, 4-5 mm in diameter, white; achenes obovoid, 2.0 x 1.2 mm, flattened, dark brown.

Analgesic (for neuralgia); caused damage to the leukocyte chromosome of humans (in vitro) and caused "micronuclei formation in polychromatic erythrocyte" in mice, a tonic, febrifuge, emmenagogue (plant)

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Parthenin, kaempferol, 6-hydroxykaempferol-3, betulin, hexacosanol, myricyl alcohol and beta-sitosterol (plant).

Relieving neuralgia, as emmenagogue and tonic.

Repeated contact with this grass causes allergic contact-dermatitis in humans, cattles and other herbivores. Also, inhalation of its air-borne pollens causes allergic rhinitis, reddening of eyes with swelling of eyelids, fever and asthma.

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