Distribución
Originario de Madagascar, se cultiva como ornamental en Loreto.

Usos

Corteza
Odontalgias: se bebe una infusión de la corteza

Hojas
Reumatismo: el envés de las hojas amarillas se unta con aceite comestible y se soasan el fuego directo; aún caliente se coloca la hoja con el aceite sobre la zona adolorida.
Hipotensor: preparar un cocimiento de cuatro hojas senescentes (caídas del árbol) en un litro de agua; se toma como agua de tiempo. Disminuye la tensión arterial.

Observaciones
El cocimiento de las hojas ayuda a disminuir el colesterol en la sangre y tiene propiedades adelgazantes.

Uses: diabetic, kidneys.                                                 

Origin: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Caribbean, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Suriname, Thailand, USA, Venezuela, Vietnam.

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Root: Root-bark is astringent; decoction used for dysentery, diarrhoea, intestinal catarrh and to treat bleeding.

Stem: Stem-bark used for bilious fevers.

Leaf: Macerated in palm oil and applied to abscessed tonsils. Leaves are mixed with guava root-bark in a preparation to remedy dysentery.

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Origin: Native to tropical and temperate Asia, Australasia, the Pacific and
Madagascar.

Pharmacological Activities: Antimicrobial, Anticancer/Antineoplastic, Anti inflammatory, Hypoglycaemic, Antioxidant, Hepatoprotective, Antiviral, Chemopreventive, Aphrodisiac and Antimutagenic.
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Range. Tropical Asia to Northern Australia and Polynesia, and cultivated in many places. Cultivated in Myanmar

Uses

Whole plant: Astringent, also used in treating dysentery.
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Origin

Cultivated throughout hotter parts of India, also in the Andamans.

Action:

Bark—astringent, antidysenteric, mild diuretic.

Leaf— antiseptic, anti-inflammatory.

Oil from kernel—substitute for almond oil; contains oleic, linoleic, palmitic and stearic acids. Fresh kernels resemble almonds; contain fat 52,02 protein 25,42, sugars as glucose 5,98%.

Leaf—sudorific; applied to rheumatic joints.

Ointment made from juice—used in scabies and other cutaneous affections.

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3) A guide to medicinal plants / Hwee Ling, Koh; Tung Kian, Chua; Chay Hoon, Tan. Singapore:  World vScientific Public Co. Pte. Ltd., 2009. p 289 p.

4) Mejía, Kember; Rengifo, Eisa /Plantas medicinales de uso popular en la Amazonía Peruana.-- Lima : Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, 2000. -- p. 286

5) DeFilipps, Robert A.; Krupnick, Gary A. / PhytoKeys, v. 102. - - p. 1 - 314,  2018.

6) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 654.