A hairy perennial herb with spreading, prostrate branches arising from a small woody rootstock having nearly sessile, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate leaves, blue flowers and 2-celled capsules.

bronchitis, asthma, nervous disorders, depressive disorders, epilepsy, forgetfulness, internal bleeding, dysentery, diarrhoea, worm infestations, falling and greying of hair, intermittent fevers, general debility