Origin

Tropical Himalayas, Bengal, southwards to Andhra Pradesh and the Andamans.

Action:

Fruits—stimulant, carminative, diaphoretic, anthelmintic, antidiarrhoeal. Decoction is used as an expectorant in asthma.

Fruits and shoots—hypoglycaemic.

Fruit pulp—applied externally in rheumatism.

Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p 591.