Whole plant: poisonous bush, causes a patient to vomit
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Whole plant: Used to treat syphilitic blennorrhoea. In a cataplasm for cephalalgia.
Seed: Drastic purgative.
1) Barret, Bruce Economic Botany vol. 48, nro. 1 .-- p. 8-20 1994
2) Robertt, A., et al.. Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana)/Smithsonian NMNH. cited online: 17-08-2017.