Origin

Jamaica

Folk medicinal uses

With the wood and leaves, which are bitter, a tea is made for biliousness. Beckwith mentions the use of corkscrew, an unidentified plant but probably this species, as an emetic. In MacFadyen's day an infusion was used for fever, coughs and tuberculosis.

Asprey, G.F; Phylis Thornton/ Medicinal plants of Jamaica. Parts I & II. – p. 27.