An odorous shrub or a small tree found all over India and sometimes grown in gardens for its dark green glossy leaves and white or pinkish berries. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, usually pentafoliolate, sometimes 4-1 foliolate; flowers in axillary panicles, white, small; berries pulpy, glandular, edible.

Antiflammatory and antibacterial (root); hypotensive.

Glycozolinol, glycozolidal, glycozoidal and glycosolone (root); alkaloids, glycosine (plant); glycosmin (leaves)

Cough suppressant, rheumatism and jaundice (plant); for facial inflammations and in fever (root); snakebite; in fever, liver complaints and as vermifuge (leaf juice)

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