kancanara rakta :

Use in other system of medicine:

Culinary
- In India, flower buds used as a vegetable dish.
Folkloric
- In the Philippines. infusion of new flowers used for dysentery.
- Elsewhere the bark is used for the treatment of skin diseases, scrofula and ulcers.
- Bark used to treat and diarrhea.
- The dried buds are used in the treatment of piles, dysentery, diarrhea and worms.
- Root is used as an antidote to snake poison.
- Decoction of the root used for dyspepsia.
- In India, powdered bark used as tonic, for strains, ulcers, skin disease. Also, extracts of bark used for treatment of cancer. Roots used for dyspepsia and as antidote for snake bites.
- In India, Mundas women use flower decoction as galactagogue. Dried flower buds in water used as vermifuge. Santals women use dried flower buds with paste of black pepper to regular vaginal discharge. Andh and Bhil use the leaves as laxative.
- In Konkan, fresh bark juice used as expectorant. Bark used with dried ginger as internal remedy for scrofula. South Indians used leaf decoction to relieve headaches in malarial fever.
- In Ayurveda, plant pacifies vitiated kapha. Used to treat , diarrhea, goiter, jaundice, Baskin diseases, rectal prolapse, diabetes, inflammation, worms, tumors, piles, menorrhagia, hemoptysis, and cervical lymphadenopathy.
- Roots used as antidote to snake poison.

Others
- Dye: Bark reported to be used in dyeing, yielded various fast shades of brown color.

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