A glabrous, dextrose climber with smooth terete stems attaining a length up to 7m. Roots tuberous; leaves broad-ovate to orbicular or peltate; both male and female flowers yellowish or yellowish green, in axillary compound umbels; drupes pisiform, becoming red on ripening.

Reduces fever, antiasthmatic, stimulates the central nervous system, antidysenteric, antimicrobial, alleviates spasms and hypoglycemic (root); hypotensive (rhizome).

Benzyltetrahydroisoquinolene alkaloids and pronuciferine hydrochloride (plant); columbamine, cycleanine, jatrorrhizine, magnoflorine, palmatine, tetrahydropalmatine (root)

For tuberculosis, asthma, diabetes, maladies in the urinary tract, reducing fever and in dysentery (root)

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