Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

For fever and colds the twigs are boiled, the resulting decoction being used as a tea and for a bath. The bath is also taken for pains and the tea, with ginger added, is used for stomach-ache and as a general beverage.

Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 23.