The wood is useful. Leaves are stomachic and tonic, they help catarrh. An ointment of the seeds is applied for cutaneous diseases. The fruit is edible. Bark structure has been studied by ROTH 1981, as has fruit structure and dispersal 1987, and leaf venation 1996.

South American medicinal plants : botany, remedial properties, and general use / I. Roth, H. Lindorf. Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2002. -- p. 492.