Whole plant: purge "up and down purge, it vomit you and make you go down too"
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Whole plant: Bitter, mucilaginous; mildly purgative; decoction for both continual and intermittent fevers; emetic and febrifuge for bilious fever or dysentery. For liver ailments.
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