Stem: Bark and wood is astringent, used to treat chronic diarrhoea in French Guiana.

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Origin:
Native to tropical America and the West Indies. Grown in Indian gardens.

Action:
Astringent. Used for atonic dyspepsia, diarrhoea, summer diarrhoea, dysentery, internal haemorrhages, menorrhagia, leucorrhoea. (It imparts red colour to urine and stool. Incompatible with chalk or lime-water.)

Toxicity:
It imparts red colour to urine and stool. Incompatible with chalk or lime water
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Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Beckwith says that the chipped bark is used with sugar to make a drink. The wood and bark were formerly used by Jamaican medical men as an astringent for diarrhoea and dysentery.

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

2) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 836.

3) Asprey, G.F: Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 7.