As a beverage The plant yields an abundance of a mildly<unk> ous milky juice, and travellers like nomadic cowherds suck its tender shoots to allay thirst. Traditional accounts hold that<unk>  is the Soma plant of the Vedas. The Rig Veda, ix. says, the purifying Soma, like the sea rolling its waves, has poured forth songs, hymns and thoughts. Medicinal The plant is bitter, acrid, cooling, alterant, narcotic, emetic, antiviral, and rejuvenating. India In classical Indian medicine it is considered useful in vitiated conditions of pitta, dipsia, viral infection, hydrophobia, psychopathy and general debility.
Cynanchum acidum
Arcanum joviale
Cynanchum viminale
Mitragyna speciosa
Gongylonema pulchrum
Antihecticum poterii
Peganum harmala
Gnathostoma spinigerum