A pretty, perennial climber, with odd-pinnate leaves, 5-7, ovate leaflets, axillary, conspicuous blue or white flowers, solitary or in clusters, axillary and linear, oblong, compressed, apically beaked pods containing 10-15, yellowish-brown, smooth, reniform seeds.

Roots useful in ophthalmopathy, tubercular glands, amentia, hemicrania, burning sensation, strangury, helminthiasis, leprosy, leucoderma, elephantiasis, inflammation, vitiated conditions of pitta, bronchitis, asthma, pulmonary, tuberculosis, ascites, ulcers, ear diseases, visceromegaly and fevers. They are administered with honey and ghee as a general tonic to children for improving mental faculties, muscular strength and complexion and in epilepsy and insanity. Leaves are useful in otalgia, hepatopathy and eruptions. Seeds are useful in visceralgia. Roots and leaves are useful in the treating bodyaches, infections, urinogenital disorders, as anthelmintic, and antidote to animal stings.