Is native of Venezuela and is applied to cure afflictions of the liver and kidney. It is also an abortive. Longterm application, however, may produce cancer of the oesophagus due to the high tannin content.

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