Botany
Sabi is an erect, usually branched, nearly smooth herb, 20 to 40 centimeters high. Leaves are oblong, 5 to 10 centimeters long, variously lobed and toothed, often lyrate, and petioled, the upper ones being sessile or nearly so. Racemes are long, with many flowers at the tip. Flowers are small, yellow, and 2.5 to 3 millimeters long. Sepals are as long as the petals. Pod is spreading, slender, cylindric, and 1 to 2 centimeters long.

Distribution
- In and about towns along drains, ditches, etc., and in waste place, along streams, etc., throughout the Philippines in the more or less settled areas.
- Introduced.
- Also found in tropical Asia and Malaya.

Constituents
Constituents

Properties
Considered diuretic, stimulant, antiscorbutic.

Parts used
Seeds, various plant parts.

Uses
Folkloric
In Indo-China, plant used as diuretic, stimulant, and antiscorbutic.
Seeds used as laxative.
Also used in the treatment of asthma.

Availability
Wild-crafted.