madhukarkai :

Fruiting tree in Florida Photograph by: North Carolina State University Herbarium

Use in other system of medicine:

Edibility / Nutritional

- Food: Fresh fruit and preserved rind.

- Fresh fruit is a good source of vitamin B, iron and calcium.

Folkloric

- Nausea and fainting: Squeeze rind near nostrils for patient to inhale.

- In the Philippines, leaves are used for aromatic baths.

- Infusion or decoction of flowers, leaves and pericarp used as sedative for nervous affections; also for coughs and ulcers.

- Peel or rind, dried or in decoction, used for dyspepsia.

- Boiled seeds in a gallon of water can be used for sitz-baths.

- In Malaya, lotion of boiled leaves used for painful swellings.

In the Himalayas, fruit juice recommended for ulcers; used in diabetes; and mixed with black pepper and a little rock salt, used for malaria. Fruit juice with its pulp, with honey, is given to improve urinary flow.

Others

- Wood: Potential source of firewood. Heavy, hard and tough wood suitable for making tool handles.

- Essential oil: Fruits and leaves yield essential oil that serve as perfumery and toiletry ingredients.

- Fodder: Pulp molasses and residues from juice extraction use as cattle feed.

- Apiculture: Tree is a valued honey plant.

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