Origin:
Throughout India. Grows wild in forests and hills. Often found around subterranean water streams.

Action:
Astringent and antiseptic; used in threatened abortions, menorrhagia, leucorrhoea, urinary disorders, skin diseases, swellings, boils, haemorrhages.
Unripe fruits—astringent, carminative, digestive, stomachic; used in diarrhoea, dyspepsia, dysentery, menorrhagia and haemorrhages.
Ripe fruits—antiemetic, also used in haemoptysis.
Root and fruit—hypoglycaemic.
Bark— decoction is used in skin diseases, inflammations, boils and ulcers.

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