Plumbago zeylanica , Chitrak, Plumbago, White leadwort

Plumbago zeylanica

 Common name: 

Chitrak, 

Plumbago, 

White leadwort

Plumbaginaceae -

 Native to SE Asia that grows wild in India and has been used by rural and tribal people for hundreds of years as a traditional system of medicine. The fruits are like a small cocklebur with glue on the soft spines and they will stick to anything. The root and root bark and seeds are used medicinally as a stimulant, caustic, digestion, antiseptic, anti-parasitic. 

Surendra Parihar