The leaves in decoction are used for baths against muscular pain. The stems are applied in construction of rustic houses and for fences or as firewood. The bark of the root is diuretic and an emmenagogue; young soft twigs are useful as tooth-picks.

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