A decoction of the leaves is used for a sitz bath and for diarrhoea. The bark mixed with edible oil is applied as sinapism. Ground leaves and twigs are used for tooth ache and ear ache, putting the powder directly in the outer ear. The species also supplies timber.

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