Ganikarika,

Agnimantha. Vern. Ganiari, Beng. Ami, Hind. The root of Premna spinosa is described as bitter, stomachic and useful in fever, anasarca, urticaria, etc. The leaves are bitter and carminative. A soup made of the leaves is occasionally used as a stomachic and carminative. The root forms an ingredient of dasamula (see Desmodium gan-geticum), and is thus largely used in a variety of affections.

The root rubbed into a paste with water is recommended to bo taken with clarified butter in urticaria and roseola, for a week.2