Coneru, a deciduous shrub, is found in the sub-Himalayan tract. The bark is rather rough, and pale brownish or grayish. The leaves are membranous, elliptic and subsessile. The flowers are white, in terminal corymbose cymes, and the seeds are light brown.
The bark has astringent, antidysenteric, anthelmintic, stomachic, febrifugal and tonic properties. It is useful in the treatment of amebic dysentery and diarrhea. Alkaloids present in Kurchi are conessine, conamine, conkurchine, connessimine, kurchine and conarrhinine.
It is also known as Kurchi and Vatsaka.
