Bark and Leaf: Boiled with Psidium guajava bark or fruit, and the resulting liquid is drunk for coughs and dysentery.

Bark and Fruit: For diarrhoea, cancerous ulcers, and syphilis.

Bark: Decocted for venereal diseases, iron deficiency, vomiting, sore throat. Bark is scraped, boiled, and the water drunk as an anti-diarrheal, by the Guyana Patamona.Used for diarrhoea in NW Guyana.

Fruit: Fruit is used for treatment of diarrhea by Amerindians at Kurupukari, Guyana.

Robertt, A., et al.. Medicinal Plants of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana)/Smithsonian NMNH. cited online: 17-08-2017