Range. India to northern Australia. Widely distributed in Myanmar.
Uses
Leaf: Used to treat dysentery and diarrhea.
Fruit: Used for blood diseases.
Seed: Used to treat opthalmia.
Root: An aperient.
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Origin:
Sub-Himalayan tracts from the Ganges eastwards to Assam and Madhya Pradesh.
Action:
Leaf juice—given in diarrhoea.
Fruit—bitter, acrid, anthelmintic, haemolytic, vulnerary; prescribed in gingivitis as an expectorant.
Powdered seeds— emetic and expectorant.
Bark— astringent, used in diarrhoea and blennorrhoea. Febrifuge.
Wood— haemostatic (in metrorrhagia).
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. 836.