Pavetta indica is a plant commonly found in South and Southeast Asia, including in India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

The entire plant used medicinally as a bitter tonic, diuretic, inflammation, rheumatism, jaundice and ulcer.

In the indigenous system of medicine, it is reported that the decoction of the leaves are used to relieve haemorrhoidal pain, as a lotion for nose, analgesic, antipyretic, appetizer and the ulceration of mouth.

It showed analgesic activity for the ethanolic leaf extract on laboratory animals.

[1] It is also used by the Hmong people of northern Thailand in religious ceremonies to communicate with ancestral spirits.