Morphology

It is annual terrestrial and prostrate herb. The flowers are small, solitary, bisexual, pale pink or white in color and have stamens and white filaments. The roots are thin, tortuous, slender, lateral branching fibrous. The leaves are succulent, green, opposite, oval shaped and unequal in size. The stems are branched, cylindrical, fleshy and angular to some extent and prostrate in nature. Fruit is circumsessile capsule like shaped that partly exerted from partial perianth containing 2-8 seeds. The seeds are hairless, kidney shaped 1.5-2.5 mm long and black in color.

It is found in Southeast Asian countries like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Africa and America.

Inflammation, anemia, hemorrhoids, abdominal diseases, abdominal lump, fever, artificial poison, pain in the region of urinary bladder, heart diseses, chest injury, mental disorders, liver disorders and splenomegaly