It has been described as useful specially as an anti-asthmatic agent. It counteracts bad mouth taste and smell.Due to its woody,spicy & peculiar odor like roots, it is used in perfume formulations. It is used in hair oil especially to prevent baldness and hair fall and makes them more manageable. It is reported for its anti-microbial properties and used traditionally as one of the ingredient in herbal vanishing creams to protect the skin from sun's UV rays. An essential oil obtained from the flowers is valued in high grade perfumes. An essential oil obtained from the flowers is valued. It is an annual herb with horizontal root-stock and tube sous root fibers, leaves are 30 cms or at times more than that in length. Flowers ascending and densed and of yellow in color. Inflorescence is spiked. Capsule is globule. The rhizomes are aromatic with bitter camphorous taste.