kasamarda :

Use in other system of medicine:

Edible

- Seeds can be roasted and sometimes substituted for coffee.

- In Senegal and the Antilles, seeds used as a substitute for coffee.

- Leaves and flowers, cooked, are edible.

Folkloric

· Seeds used as emeto-cathartic. Also, employed as febrifuge, usually as an infusion in coffee.

· Used for chronic gastroenteritis, constipation, indigestion, gastric pains, asthma and fever, poisonous snake and insect bites.

· Pounded fresh material applied as poultice for snakebites.

· Plant used for dropsy, rheumatism, fevers and venereal diseases.

· Ointment used for ringworm, eczema and variety of skin diseases.

· Roots used for gonorrhea, black-water fever, malaria, and dysentery.

· In Peru, decoction of roots used for fevers; seeds brewed for asthma.

· In Brazil, roots are used as tonic, febrifuge, diuretic and anthelmintic; also used for fevers, menstrual problems, tuberculosis.

· Infusion of roots and bark used for malaria and hematuria.

· Infusion of bark used for diabetes.

· Leaves used as purgative and antiherpetic.

· Poultice of leaves used for skin irritation and eczema.

· In Lagos, leaf infusion used as specific for black-water fever.

· In Lagos and Liberia, infusion of leaves used as purgative.

· In Dahomey, decoction of leaves used as febrifuge.

· In the Dutch Indies, poultice of leaves used for toothache.

· In the French colonies of western Africa, infusion of leaves used for yellow fever.

· In Malaya, poultice of leaves used for headache.

· In the West Indies, root used as diuretic.

· In Panama, leaf decoction used for stomach colic; poulitce of crushed leaves as anti-inflammatory; and fresh crushed leaves to expel intestinal worms.

· Used as abortifacient.

· In Jamaican folk medicine, used for diarrhea, dysentery, constipation, fever, cancer, eczema, and venereal diseases.

· In India, used for fever, menstrual problems, tuberculosis, anemia, sore eyes, rheumatism, hematuria. Bark infusion used in diabetes.

· In Northern Nigeria, leaves used as a cure for hepatitis.

· In African pharmacopoeia, fresh leaves used for constipation and malaria; also use as enema for its abortive properties.

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