Stem: Wood is bitter, aromatic.

Fruit and Seed: Infusion used to treat colic, dysentery and diarrhoea in Guyana. Diarrhoea remedy of the Guyana Accowai and Dutch descended Guyanese.

Fruit: Dried and used against dysentery in French Guiana.

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