Seeds, juice of leaves, herb, oil. This annual herb has a short, flat or round stem, deep brown in colour.
Serrate leaves are opposite and sessile to subsessile.
Small penny-size flowers, white in colour are on a long stalk. Reducing sugars and sterols have been detected. Wedelic acid, apigenin, luteolin and the glucosides of the latter two have been isolated. Serum transaminases were also significantly lower in the treated group. For healthy black and long hair the plant is commonly used in hair oil all over India.