Edibility

- Tender shoots used as vegetable.

- In Sri Lanka, leaves cooked and mixed with rice as medicinal treatment.

Folkloric

- Decoction of roots used in colic and for relieving thirst.

- In Goa, roots used for diarrhea and chronic dysentery.

- Young shoots chewed for relief of severe cough. 

- Decoction of shoots applied to sores. 

- Root decoction used for stomach ache, colic, dysentery and diarrhea. 

- Roasted leaves applied to the head to relieve vertigo.

- Leaf juice applied on the head for dizziness or vertigo. 

- Juice of young leaves used as digestive.

- In La Reunion, roots used as sudorific.

- Jakuns reported to use poultice of leaves for body pains.

- Paste of roots applied to relieve skin complaints with rashes and allergic reactions.

- In Sri Lanka, leaves cooked and mixed with rice (Heenati haal) and use for treating hemorrhoids, intestinal worms, etc. Externally, leaves bruised in gingelly oil used as dressing for wounds and ulcers. Juice of berries applied to warts. Pith of stems used as diuretic and for treatment of acute cystitis and strangury. 

- In Bangladesh, the Marma of Chittagong Hill Tracts combine the root paste of plant with roots of Orecnide integrifolia and Cissus repens to treat bubo and boils. (Yusuf et al. 2009).

- In Ayurveda, used in the treatment of ringworm, wounds, ulcers, warts, cystitis, diarrhea, dysentery, burns, dental caries, hemorrhoids, and fever. 

- In Thailand, decoction of root and stem used as potion for diarrhea, hemorrhoids, and gastric ulcer.