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Stem: Bark infusion for irregular menstruation. For treating diarrhoea, dysentery, and children's thrush. In NW Guyana, bark used for diarrhea and to stop vomiting. Branches employed in whitening teeth in NW Guyana.

Leaf: Infusion for diabetes. Used to treat diarrhea in NW Guyana.

Fruit: Used for diarrhea in NW Guyana. Fruits are used as a beverage/tonic and wine, by the Guyana Patamona.

Seed: Seeds are parched, pulverised and made into a coffee-like beverage used to treat diabetes. For children's bed-wetting. Infusion for catarrhal fever. Seed-pits are used for regulating blood pressure, and sugar in the urine. Used to treat diabetes in NW Guyana.

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Range. India and Sri Lanka, east to Malay Archipelago. Cultivated in tropical re­gions. In Myanmar, found in Bago, Kachin, Magway, Mandalay, and Yangon.

Uses
Bark: Astringent and sweet with binding properties, easily digestible. Used in the compounding of medicines to treat conditions with white vaginal discharge or discharge due to venereal disease. A paste of the bark made with milk is mixed with some honey and a tablespoon is taken to cure severe diarrhea.

Bark, Leaf, Fruit and/ or Seed: Used to treat diarrhea and dysentery.

Bark and Seed: Used in treating diabetes.

Shoot: Has cooling, drying, and binding properties; used for indigestion and bloating.

Leaf: A decoction is used for sore eyes. Fresh tender leaves are crushed with water and held in the mouth to cure gum boils and other mouth sores; crushed and taken with milk to treat bleeding hemorrhoids; and crushed with water and taken to neutralize the effects of opium. Juice from the leaves is applied to scorpion stings.

Fruit: Sweet and astringent, it diminishes indigestion. Juice of crushed fruit can be taken, once in the morning and once at night, for inflammation of the spleen. Juice of ripe fruit is squeezed, strained, and fermented, then taken as a treatment for gas. Eating the ripe fruit is used as a treatment for diabetes.

Seed: Made into a powder and taken with cooled boiled water to treat (mild) diabetes mellitus; paste made from the dried seeds applied 2–3 times a day to sores associated with venereal disease; and paste, also made with water, applied to sores that are difficult to heal. Together with mango seeds and krazu (Terminalia citrina) seeds can be mixed in equal amounts, roasted and made into a powder taken to cure diarrhea.
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Origin

Cultivated throughout India up to 1,800 m.

Action:

Fruit—stomachic, carminative, diuretic.

Bark and seed— antidiarrhoeal.

Seed—hypoglycaemic.

Leaf—antibacterial, antidysenteric.