Range. China, India, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka. In Myanmar, found growing natu­rally all over the country but especially in Upper and Lower Myanmar.

Uses
Leaf: Eating boiled leaves with a dip can help eliminate gas and cure stom-achaches, burning sensation in the mouth, irregularity in bile, and high blood pressure. Eating the leaves boiled together with the nga-mway-toh (Mastacembelus armatus) fish will cure diarrhea. New mothers eating the leaves in a salad will be cured of blocked mammary glands, drying up of breast milk, aches and pains in the pelvic area, twist­ing pain in the abdomen, and nosebleeds. Eating the leaves in a soup with the leaves of dant-dalun (Moringa oleifera) will cure heart disease, hemorrhaging of blood, and diabetes.

Fruit: Beaten and taken with honey will cure coughs and asthma. Eaten with jaggery will cure indigestion. Boiled young fruit and eaten in a salad will cure shooting or dull pains in the stomach due to gas, and hypertension.

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