An erect, pubescent, aromatic annual up to 100 cm in height. Leaves triangular-ovate, deeply toothed, leafstalk winged; heads small, yellow or rarely white, in sticky, leafy panicles; achenes black, enclosed in boatshaped bracts.

Stimulates the cardiovascular system, hypoglycemic, antiseptic, alleviates spasms, antiviral, diaphoretic, antiscorbutic and sialagogue (plant)

Beta-sitosterol, stigmasterol (plant)

In skin maladies (such as ringworm and sores), urethral diseases (urethritis), as an antiseptic and cardiotonic; to cure ringworm and other parasitic infections, in rheumatism and renal colic (plant); used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, pains and aches in the legs and sides, hypertension, sciatica, weeping dermatitis, scurvy, scrofula, syphilis and mastitis (decoction of the plant).

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