Barcode: CAL0000006536

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Family: MENISPERMACEAE

Scientific Name: Jateorhiza palmata Miers

Country: India

Uses: The drug known as-Calumba, Columba, or Columbo the source or obtained from the roots. It is a bitter tonic and stomachic. It is useful in combination with other tonics, cathartics and aromatics, in atonic dyspepsia, gastric irritability, diarrhoea and dysentery, and vomiting attending on pregnancy. On sores powdered Calumba is applied.