The writer K.P Poornachandra Tejaswi is a prominent Kannada writer, novelist, ornithologist, painter, and environmentalist. He was with Mara and his friends for a long time to know more about the medicinal herbs. It took almost twenty years for the author to learn about the medicinal creeper, all because of the unwillingness of the local people to share their knowledge regarding these medicinal plants. People those who knew something about the value of these plants do not let out the secret because of the belief that if it is shared, it may lose its potency. More than that sufficient Research work has not taken place. The natives are aware that some plants are medicinal but they are not sure of the exact benefit from that plant. This signifies that there were a lot of myths regarding this creeper. Nobody was sure of the type of disease that it could cure, its availability, in what form it must be taken and so on.