| Author : L. |
| Family : Vitaceae |
| Habit: Scandent shrub |
| Sanskrit: Asthishrinkhala, Vajravalli |
| English: Edible-stemmed vine, Adamant creeper, Bone-setter |
A fleshy, jointed climber, with slender, dichotomously branched, quadrangular, glabrous, fibrous stem, 4-winged internodes, a leaf-opposed, persistent tendril at some nodes, broadly ovate or reniform, lobed leaves, leafless when old, small, greenish-white flowers, in short umbellate cymes and globose, succulent, 1-seeded berries.
Whole plant
Worm infestations, piles, skin diseases, leprosy, bleeding, eye & ear diseases, chronic ulcers, tumours, epilepsy, swellings, scurvy, asthma, nose bleeding, burns, wounds, bone fractures, muscular pains, bites of poisonous insects, purgative
calcium oxalate, carotene, ascorbic acid, 3-ketosteroid, α-amyrin and α-amyrone, onocer-7-en-3α, 21β-diol, onocer-7-en-3β, 21α-diol, 7-oxo-onocer-8-en-3β, 21α-diol, vitamin C, phytogenic steroid, ketosteroid, triterpenoids