A shrub or a small tree up to 6 m tall. Leaves ovate, entire, sinuate, base rhomboid or shallowly cordate; flowers purple, in lateral and terminal racemes; berries globose, smooth, yellow.

Antiinflammatory (in burns) (plant) and depresses the central nervous system (aerial part).

AgroForestryTree Database

Tomatidine and solavarbascine (leaf); steroidal sapogenins and alkaloids (stem, leaf and fruit).

Vertigo and urinary troubles (plant); to women suffering from vaginal discharge (leaf)

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