Originating in India, it spread throughout tropical Asia. This plant is known to have many pharmacological activities. In Ayurvedic medicine, saga seeds are used to treat eye infections and as a potential contraceptive. Saga Rambat is also frequently used as an ornamental plant.

It grows wild in grasslands and wet areas, at altitudes ranging from 50–1,650 m a.s.l.. It prefers soil that is well-drained, sandy, and adequately moist, and requires full sunlight.

• The leaves are even-pinnately compound, alternately arranged, short-stalked (petiolated), broadly elliptic in shape, with blunt to slightly rounded tips and bases, entire margins, a smooth upper surface, a finely hairy lower surface, and prominent venation on the underside. They are green to pale green in color.

• The flowers are compound (inflorescence), gathered in racemes emerging from the leaf axils, small in size, light purple, and the corolla (petals) is butterfly-shaped (papilionaceous).

• The fruit is a pod, yellowish-green, flattened, elongated quadrangular, and poisonous.

• The seeds are red with a black spot, shiny, and smooth.

• Propagation is done generatively (by seed). Before sowing, the seeds are soaked first and only those that sink are selected.

• Leaves, Stem, Root: Treatment for sore throat, canker sores (sariawan), tonsillitis, dry cough, bronchitis, hepatitis (acute and chronic viral), jaundice.

• Seeds: Used as a contraceptive, and for eye infections, scabies, and fungal infections (tinea).

• Tannins, luteolin, polyphenols, saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids (L-abrine), abruquinone D,E,F, calcium oxalate, glycyrrhizin, glycyrrhizinate, polygalacturonic acid, and pentosan.