Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

Beckwith reported the use of these species to make tea for constipation and fever and, boiled with Vernonia arborescens (L.) Sw., to bathe a woman after childbirth. At one time these species were regarded as efficaceous in cholera, typhus and typhoid fevers and as good cholagogues.

Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 10.