vikankata :

Ripening fruit Photograph by: Dinesh Valke

Use in other system of medicine:

Edibility

- Fruits are edible, eaten raw or stewed. Also dried or made into jams and jellies.

- Fruit used for making wine.

Folkloric

- Infusion of the bark used for hoarseness and as a gargle.

- In Madagascar, the bark is titurated in oil and used as a rheumatic liniment.

- The ashes of the roots are used for kidney ailments.

- Dried leaves are used in asthma, bronchitis, phthisis and catarrh of the bladder.

- Juice of fresh leaves and tender stalks used for fevers.

- As an antiperiodic for infants, 5 to 10 drops are placed in water or in mothers milk.

- Also used in phthisical coughs, dysentery, diarrhea and indigestion during dentition.

- In Bengal, used as a tonic during parturition.

- The fruit is used for bilious disorders and to relieve nausea and vomiting.

- In India, used as an antiviral.

- In Sabah, roots used for headaches, leaves for colic.

- In Tanzania, fruit used for jaundice and enlarged spleens; leaves and roots for schistosomiasis, malaria and diarrhea. Also, the roots are used for hoarseness, pneumonia, intestinal worms; and as astringent, diuretic and analgesic.

- In Africa, stem barks, fruits, and leaves used for epilepsy, headache, fever, stomach-ache, diarrhea, and sleep disorders.

- In Sri Lanka, young fruit taken for internal hemorrhages; ripe fruit as liver tonic. Root power with kithul juggary taken as expectorant. Decoction of roots taken for treatment of urinary calculi. Gum used in treatment of cholera.

Others

• Fodder: Grazed on by game. In India, branches and leaves lopped for cattle.

• Tannin or dyestuff: Bark is used as tannin material.

• Fuel: Wood used as firewood and charcoal.

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