Uses: wound healing, esquisema, pimples, wounds, blood depurative, leishmaniasis, liver, intestine, inflammation, rehumatism, bladder, kidneys.                                                  

Origin: Brazil. 

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This is a plant of North American woodlands. Various Native American tribes used all parts of the plant. Leaf tea was a contraceptive. Smoke from burning the roots was used to treat insanity and to quiet a crying child. Powdered dried root stopped external bleeding, rashes, and itch. The round fruits of the plant were taken by settlers to prevent scurvy, and they were sometimes called scurvy berries. The great English herbalist John Gerard (1545-1612) recommended stamped roots in wine as an internal medicine for persons with broken bones – “as touching the knitting of bones …there is not another herb to be found comparable..”
Toxicity:
Leaf tea was a contraceptive

Part used::
Roots, Leaves, Berries

Origin:
America

1) Geraldini , Isanete, Journal of Ethnopharmacology v. 173, 2015 . -- p. 383-423

2) Hull, Kathleen; Photog. Hull, Meredith /Indiana Medical History Museum: Guide to the Medicinal Plant Garden./ USA: Indiana Medical History Museum. 2010. -- p. 58.