Botanical Name : Argyreia nervosa / A. speciosa Sweet
Sanskrit name : Convolvulaceae
English Name :  Elephant Creeper, Woolly Morning Glory               
Family: Convolvulaceae                   

Part Used: Root          

Description of Argyreia nervosa / A. speciosa:
Throughout India, up to an altitude of 300 meters high. It is a very large woody climber. The stem is stout, white and tomentose. The leaves are large, ovate-cordate, glabrous above, persistently white tomentose beneath, base cordate and petiole is long. The flowers are in sub-capitate cymes. The Calyx, white tomentose outside. The Corolla is long, tubular - infundibuliform, silky pubescent outside and glabrous inner. The fruits are globose and apiculate.

Principal Constituents :
It contains many ergoline alkaloids.

Pharmacology:
Speman', consisting of several ingredients of plant material including this species, is reported to exhibit anabolic-cum-androgen-like activity in mice. It posseses significant spasmolytic and hypotensive activities. It is a local stimulant and rubifacient

Toxicology:
 A few of the ergoline alkaloids reported in this plant are hallucinogenic.

Medicinal Uses:
The root is bitter, aphrodisiac, diuretic and used in gonorrhoea, rheumatism and diseases of the nervous system. It is also used as a tonic.

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