Range. Southeastern Africa, Madagascar, eastern and southeastern Asia, Philip­pine Islands, Guam; naturalized in Florida.

Use
Fruit: Used as a sedative.

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Origin

Throughout India in the warmer zones; ascending to 900 m in the North-western Himalaya.

Action:

Seeds—prescribed in spermatorrhoea, and for promoting spermiogenesis (in Unanimedicine). Also given as a rejuvenating tonic for retarding old age and for retaining and promoting virility. (in Ayurvedic medicine).

Leaf—anti-inflammatory, analgesic; removes foetid discharges and worms from ulcers.

Flowers—astringent, febrifuge, antidiarrhoeic; prescribed in liver complaint.

Oil— applied to sinus, scrofulous sores.

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

2) Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 709.