Origin:
Indigenous to South India; cultivated throughout the plains of India up to 500 m in the western Himalaya.

Action:
Fruit—antiscorbutic, carminative, stimulates the digestive system bark.
Pulp is included in a paste to tone the breast.
Leaves— astringent; used for indigestion, flatulence, diarrhoea, dysentery and haemorrhoids.

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